Sometime in 1955 or so my grandmother chased my grandfather around the kitchen table with a broom because he’d spent his paycheque on booze and she had 11 kids to feed. Thereafter she attended his place of employment on pay days and collected his pay “for him”.
Sometime around 1975 my mother and father had the only fight I ever heard them have because she wanted to take a job as she wanted a new washing machine. On her first day of work, a Saturday, she left him a note on the kitchen counter, which is how he found out she had a job.
Sometime in the mid eighties my husband and I decided someone should stay home with the kids. It took me a month to convince him it should be him. That was not the outcome he expected when he made the suggestion but he did a grand job, rest his soul.
This evening my youngest daughter, upon being told by her husband that she *could not* say any more unfavourable things about Jagmeet Singh, used her husband’s credit card to make a donation to the Liberal party.
Can someone please ask Kinsella if we’re doing it right. It’s hard to tell.

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