Playing in a modest pairs competition I am South, the dealer at Love All. Sorting through my cards I observe the following pretty collection:

Well, I have no alternative but to open 1. Some players, I know, would count their 20 points and open 2NT but this is an unnatural practice with a singleton and is a bid of little merit. Partner responds 1 and I show a good hand by reversing into 2. In our methods this bid is forcing but, even if it were not, there is little alternative. A crude punt into 3NT is the bid of a cloven-hoofed basher and a space-consuming leap to 3 (even if assumed to be a natural bid) is just going to fog the bidding.