Broken Table Leg

I was invited to a Round Table dinner as a quest by a friend in Leeds and sat next to a man I had not met before . I asked him as an opening question where he went on holiday the previous year and he said in a converted barn in Alnwick in the North East . Thats funny I said , so did my wife and I and our two girls , the cottage was lovely and when we had unpacked my wife made a cup of tea and I moved a three leg side table to put the tray on and the leg fell off . I purchased some glue during the week and mended it as I did not want to be charged for the breakage . It turned out that he and his family had stayed in the same cottage left the morning of our arrival and he had broken the table a few minutes before they had left and he had proped it up against the wall so it looked OK .