Opinion: If someone floats the idea of going for ice cream cones, you know you’ve taken the relationship to the next level.
• My mother used to tell this story: Back in the days when, as Dylan Thomas wrote, I was so high and much nicer, I was watching my mum vacuum the living room carpet. Prior to doing so, she sprinkled a white powder over it and then she proceeded to vacuum. Perhaps it was the phone or some other distraction that took her away from her work awhile, but when she returned she found that I had somehow gotten hold of a large box of cornstarch and was liberally applying it to the entire carpet.
One day, I got the idea to wash the van and show Ken, the manager, how industrious I was. I got the hose out and proceeded to scrub down the sides of the van with brand-new SOS pads. I took my time going around the van. I could see the dirt coming off in all the foam from the pads and the wet van shone brightly in the sun. As I worked my way toward where I had started, the van had dried and, to my horror, all I could see were millions of “wax on, wax off” circular, scratches all over the van.
A couple of weeks later, I overheard Ken talking to another employee and wondering how all the damage had happened. I quit shortly after that and went logging in Haida Gwaii.• I remember years ago visiting friends who had moved to Calgary. In the morning, they rose early and went off to work, and I slept in.
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