You've driven up to the wild and windy sea in your Vauxhall Astra
- You don't get out the car
- You don't roll the window down to get some fresh breezy sea salty air
- The wife in the passenger seat is unflasking a cup of Tetley's tea (tea-bags still in)
- Your heads straight down into your puzzle book
- The wife hands you a buttered bap with ham. And some cheesy Wotsits
- The wife sits there slurping tea thro her false teeth.
- Radio is switched on low to Classic FM.
- The odour of a tired fart is expiring lamely on the backseat, inside the backside of your manky fat old dog.
- The wife gets out her sudoku.
- You don't look up or out the window; the wife doesn't look up or out the window.
- No talking is happening. Only the sound of a fruit pastille being sucked.
- Manky fat old dog is looking sadly out the window.
- You aren't going to get out the car.
- Manky fat old dog isn't going for a walk.
- But he couldn't anyway. Arthritic legs.
- An hour passed.
- The sun was shining, the wind blowing, the sea was rolling in.
- Never mind. Time to drive back now. Back to the bungalow.... put the heating on.....
oct 16 2008 ∞
feb 4 2010 +