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Sharpening knives
Zebedee (still Pool God after all these years) Started conversation Aug 17, 1999
The very worst - it's Sunday, it's two o'clock, I've just climbed out of the shower and I'm very, very hungry (does alcohol steal everything you've eaten? I'm always hungrier than normal after a night out).
The gorgeous roasty nose flavours are thick in the air, and I can just taste that beef and yorkshire pud on my tongue.
And then swish, swish aaaaargh! Dad has the carving knife and a long piece of steel that was designed not to sharpen knives but punish the ears. And he relentlessly rubs them together like a fly stroking its arms.
Stop, stop, it was me, I'll confess to anything. But there is no malicious intent behind the pain, which probably makes my father a psychopath in purely clinical terms.
It doesn't spoil the lunch though.
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