I had neither knowledge nor experience of the situation she’d described,
but I nodded as though I did, while all the while the same phrase was scrolling across my brain: he is single, he is single, he is single.
I took my tea back to my desk. Their laughter seemed to have turned into low whispering now.
It never ceases to amaze me, the things they find interesting, amusing or unusual. I can only assume they’ve led very sheltered lives.
Janey the secretary had got engaged to her latest Neanderthal, and there was a presentation for her that afternoon.
I’d contributed seventy-eight pence to the collection. I only had coppers in my purse or else a five-pound note,
and I certainly wasn’t going to put such an extravagant sum into the communal envelope to buy something unnecessary for someone I barely knew.
I must have contributed hundreds of pounds over the years to all the leaving presents, baby gifts and special birthdays,
and what had I ever received in return? My own birthdays pass unremarked.
Whoever had chosen the engagement gift had selected wineglasses and a matching carafe.
Such accoutrements are unnecessary when you drink vodka —I simply use my favorite mug.
I purchased it in a charity shop some years ago, and it has a photograph of a moon-faced man on one side.
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