An erstwhile lover of mine who was making truly awful allegations regarding my current one. [ dryly: ] I imagine you should have been less inclined to hit him in recompense for that than I.

While I do not plan on a repeat performance... I did not plan on the initial one either, so I suppose it would not be a poor course of action to learn to do it properly.

I imagine one facet is to not be holding the neck of a wine bottle whilst doing it, but circumstances did not allow me much in the way of preparatory time.