If you've been given a 25" mash paddle and the mate who is giving it to you apologizes for taking so long to make it... but you hadn't asked him for it... and you keep a straight face and thank him for it and shout him a beer the next time you see him at the pub, then find out that another of your mates was the one he had made it for and thank him for asking for it and buy him a beer too
I don't think he ever got his stirrer