Chapter 101 · Month 44 · Starting a Family

The Bad Day

The question of who takes the leave

Oldest line first — the newest line is at the bottom.

Algy designer
Here — the leave question, written on the back of the $14.60 receipt because it was the only paper in the car: who takes it, and for how long. I don't know. Genuinely — I've had it in my head as mine since I signed the form, but I've never once asked you.
Penny teacher
Give it here, I'll put my name on the second line so it's not a decision you make alone at nine on Monday. And the kind bit: midnight on your own sounds grim, so tell me one of those things out loud now, even the boring one.
Algy designer
(takes the pen, silence, then quietly) Boring one's the hospital car park — where you actually park at half six in the morning. I've looked it up four times this week and I still don't know.
Penny teacher
Right, then: car park P2, opens half six, I'll drive. And the leave's answered — you take it for the twelve weeks, I take the Mondays, and we ring the two nurseries together Monday after your nine o'clock.

Who was in the wrong?

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What the audience made of it

Algy 0 Penelope 0 Both 0 0 votes

The next chapter opens with these numbers on the table. The character with fewer votes is expected to demand a recount.

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