Chapter 15 · Month 7 · The Money Conversation

The Venue

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            Penny
            teacher
            01:38
          
Two rooms for Sunday, both in the brochure: the Thai place, $32 a head, plastic chairs; the pub back room, $19, actual chairs. The pub's the better room and I'd rather not sit my mother on plastic.

            Algy
            designer
            01:39
          
The pub, then — my mum's already planning the hedge and she's not doing it off a plastic chair at $32 a head. Nineteen for a proper chair and a door that shuts is the cheapest sensible thing either of us has said this month.

            Penny
            teacher
            01:41
          
Then answer me one thing honestly — which matters more to you, the room looking right in the photos, or Susan being able to sit down for two hours? It's not a trap, I just want to hear you say it.

            Algy
            designer
            01:42
          
Mum being able to sit down for two hours, easily — and that's the first thing all week I haven't had to think about. You put a $19 option in front of me and the photos stopped mattering, which is new.

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