Conversation over breakfast

B. Whenever something bad happens in the suburbs – a murder or someone has gone missing or a house is on fire, the press always interview the neighbours. There’s an example in the paper this very morning.

G. Seems like a suitable step, no?

B. Yes. But do you read the reports? They’re always the same. The neighbours say what a quiet couple they were. Or how nice they were because they always said good morning. Never anything interesting.

G. What more do you want?

B. I just wonder what our neighbours would say about us.

G. Better not to think.

B. Why?

G. Well, what if they ask that neighbour who spends her time viciously hacking down our branches that overhang her fence and throwing them back over to our side?

B. Mmmm. I see what you mean. Or the one you had a fight with over the back boundary alignment?

G. Exactly. And how about that guy two doors down that you hosed by mistake as he walked past and he thought you did it deliberately?

B. Mmmm. I guess ‘quiet’ might be the best we could hope for.

November 2019

Answer to LP7.

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