A pub that was asked to send a bottle of wine to the “pretty brunette and bald skinny man” hilariously sent it to the wrong table.

Ed and Charlotte Pownall were eating at The Crown in Aldbourne last week when their friends called the pub to send them a bottle of wine as a generous gift.

The bottle arrived with a couple the friends described - but it was not their table.(Image: Ed Pownall)

Ed, 52 of Lambourn, found the whole thing funny, saying: “Either I wasn’t skinny and bald enough or my wife wasn’t attractive and brunette enough.”

“Our friends were coming to visit us and they thought, as we’re putting them up for the weekend, they would try to be kind.

“It was destined for me but never made it. That’s another lucky couple.”

The mistake was only discovered when Ed’s friend called him to ask if he had received the wine.

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“They were thinking, ‘How rude are they, they didn’t even say thank you’”, said Ed.

A manager at The Crown remembered the wrong couple were confused by the unexpected gift but accepted it.

“They said, ‘We are pretty sure it’s not for us, but we do fit the description’, she recalled.

The pub apologised and offered a credit note, but Ed refused, saying: “It is almost more fun this way round.”

He would still recommend the “brilliant value” pub, and he, his wife, and the visiting friends will laugh about the situation - over a bottle of wine.

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