Chapter 170 · Month 61 · Starting a Family

The Misunderstanding

The first morning with no plan and nothing to organise

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            Penny
            teacher
            02:01
          
The invoice gives me $820 two days before the deposit's due, which is not a plan, it's a prayer. So what's on my list this morning is your card, at the shop, buying milk — and the test in the same basket.

            Algy
            designer
            02:02
          
Milk and a test in one basket, and I'm the man who'll be standing at the till hoping nobody's behind me. Small grievance, though: you've put the card on the list before I've had a single mouthful of the good mug.

            Penny
            teacher
            02:03
          
You've gone quiet on the milk. What did the list say to you that I didn't?

            Algy
            designer
            02:05
          
Go on then, say it: the list's not the problem, it's me not having a plan since seven. I keep waiting for you to look at the card and think, right, he'll lose that too.

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