Meet the Family
Mum arrives home at 5 pm. She asks Dad the loaded question,
"So, what have you done all day on your day off?"
Dad looks paniched; he knows the truth - that he watched Tangled, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Vicar of Dibley and ate a 90-second microwave meal - is not going to cut it. Sister and I share a look.
"Dad did the ironing," she says. This is a lie: I did the ironing. Dad is confused by this unusual show of camaraderie and nearly blows our cover at first, then mimes that mum would have throttled him and we chuckle conspiratorially.