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Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother
Literary
by Sean McSweeney
Everyone knows it will happen. But who do we blame? Ourselves? Each other? Me? You? Them?
Dad used to deny there was a problem. Mum just ignored it. It was a lifestyle-threat, and the only thing worse than that was some bloke with a badge and a stutter turning up on your doorstep and trying to sell you cleaning equipment. One evening Dad came in, threw a copy of The Daily Mail on the table and said: “There, it’s all bollocks! I knew it!”
Dad used to deny there was a problem. Mum just ignored it. It was a lifestyle-threat, and the only thing worse than that was some bloke with a badge and a stutter turning up on your doorstep and trying to sell you cleaning equipment. One evening Dad came in, threw a copy of The Daily Mail on the table and said: “There, it’s all bollocks! I knew it!”