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The Complete Man and Boy Trilogy: Man and Boy, Man and Wife, Men From the Boys

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‘He packed it that old slapper Yasmin McGinty,’ Sally said. ‘He’s come back to me. Ain’t it fantastic?’

‘Are you crazy?’ I said. ‘Are you crazy or stupid? Which is it, Sally?’

‘Oh, Harry,’ she said, all disappointed. ‘I thought you would understand. You of all people.’

The music suddenly died. Cyd stood there with the plug in her hands.

‘Time to clean up this mess,’ she told the room. ‘Get rubbish sacks and cleaning stuff. Try looking under the sink.’

Steve climbed off Sally, adjusting his monstrous trousers, sneering at the grown-ups who had crashed his party.

‘I’m out of here,’ he said, as though he came from Beverly Hills instead of Muswell Hill.

Cyd moved swiftly across the room and clasped his nose between her thumb and forefinger.

‘You’re out of here when I tell you, elephant boy,’ she said, making him yelp as she lifted him up on his toes. ‘And it won’t be until you clean up this mess. Not until then, got it?’

‘Okay, okay!’ he bleated, his fake American bravado melting in the face of the real thing.

I took Pat up to bed, turfing out a couple mating in the bathroom, while Cyd organised the cleaning detail. By the time I had read Pat a story and got him to settle down, Sally and Steve and their spotty friends were meekly cleaning the floors and the tables.

‘Where did you learn to do that?’ I asked Cyd.

‘Texas,’ she said.

It turned out that they were quite useless at housework, just as I imagine they will be useless at everything else they attempt in their brainless, designer-labelled lives.


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