Linda was angry. She had hardly taken her seat before she said she wanted to kill someone. ‘Picking up dirty socks – that is my role in life these days’ she went on. I nodded empathically. ‘According to my smart-a##e of a 13 year-old son, his father is the one who works and earns the money, so he couldn’t possibly be expected to pick up the socks; the kids, well they go to school and study so why should they have to help tidy the house. And as for me, well seemingly I don’t do anything so it’s my job to pick up his dirty socks! |