Summary of every phone conversation with my father

• Work (“your mother can’t come to the phone she’s working on a brochure did I tell you that Peter dragged the deadline back ugh she is up against it”)
• Entertainment (“while your mother’s been working I went and got Mass Effect 2 and oh it’s got a whole story and everything you’d love it”)
• University (“university is great Sophie and I wish I’d gone but you can’t trust ‘em they’re all bureaucrats so just keep an eye out for the damn politics of education”)
• Politics (“damn politicians with their agendas ruining everything”)
• Secularism (“this is mean to be a secular country but you wouldn’t bloody know it would you”)
• “Hold on shit I left the door open and the dog’s on the road MINTY GET BACK HERE”
• “What was I talking about? Oh, right, bureaucrats and secular politics”
• “You want to talk to your mother? That’s okay, I’ve gotta go and watch [insert any HBO/AMC series that I introduced him to here] anyway”

Words cannot describe how much I love my single-train-of-thought father

Every conversation is the same variation on this pattern but in a way it’s nice, if he ever strays too far from this framework I’ll know he’s been replaced by a pod person