What Would Aitch Do? Tom and I had cause to ponder this deep question last night. I saw these cups in the sink. They were there because the usual twenty cups were all used and washing a cup just to re-use it is unthinkable.
I said, ‘Tom, rather don’t use these cups m’boy,’ and he said mildly, ‘OK, Dad’ – employing the proven tactic of humour the old bugger, he’ll soon forget about it.
So I paused and said, ‘Actually, I wonder: What do you think Mom would have said about you using that cup?’ ‘Oh, definitely Don’t Use It, said Tom.
I agree then, I said, but I wonder now, peering down from her cloud, if she wouldn’t say ‘WTF, Life Is Short, Just Use it!’
Tom pondered. ‘No’, he said, ‘She’d say Don’t Use It’.
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*update* They’re in full circulation now. Just cups. Next update: One is broken. Someone should glue the handle back on.
she Would Have used it (maybe sneakily?) but would have rinsed it with hot water from the kettle and Used It !
Today Tom says she would have asked “Is the Queen coming to tea? No? Put it back.”