She could feel the anger boiling up inside her. She knew it was wrong to hate her parents like this, but she was finding it very hard not to do so.
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television.
Another thing. She resented being told constantly that she was ignorant and stupid when she knew she wasn't.
The anger inside her went on boiling and boiling, and as she lay in bed that night she made a decision.
She decided that every time her father or her mother was beastly to her, she would get her own back in some way or another.
A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy.
You must remember that she was still hardly five years old,
and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up.
Even so, she was determined to have a go. Her father, after what had happened in front of the telly that evening, was first on her list.
The Hat and the Superglue
The following morning, just before the father left for his beastly second-hand car garage,
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