When you are starry-eyed...

A colleague was recounting her younger days, when, as a newly-married couple setting up house, she and her husband filled their kitchen shelves with trendy glass and plastic jars. A well-meaning visitor remarked; "Perhaps you should go in for conventional stainless-steel containers; this plastic is slow poison, you know?" To which the young bride remarked, tongue-in-cheek, "Oh, I am in no great hurry".