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i want my
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we didn't do nothing in this house are
you kidding why i'm telling that to
dad
look i'm just going to grab some juice
on the way are you mad just come on
i love you too
oh this is five six in the morning
6 30.
at the time uh see we just got back from
the rave about half an hour ago and like
i thought i'd come in and get my paint
brushes because i'm starting a new
painting you see so where's gloria i'm
in bed what i'm not gonna sleep
it's all that dancing you see oh for a
moment i thought you were staying at
night warby type the man who tries to do
things with my daughter in my house no
no no me stay the night no i wouldn't do
that did you kill me that's as soon as
look at you
you want some orange juice
why you seem to know your way around the
kitchen
nobody told me where things were
why don't you tell me which chair to sit
in why don't you have keys to the house
why don't you stay for breakfast
breakfast
yes thanks
let go
stop that
oh desmond that's not charlie i can't
have the two of them canoodling while
i'm trying to eat my breakfast
this time and a place for everything
yeah and you just sent them there
surely i can't have that sort of thing
in my
our house
uh what sort of thing are we talking
about here exactly pops uh sean go to
your room your mother and i want to talk
about damn things
over there if it's gloria can i stay
don't argue boy hmm but then again i
remember the last time you told me about
tings i never heard anyone make things
sound so dull in all my life
um
do you think alex and gloria are well
you know
yes i do know
and yes probably right that's it there's
one come back answer them how can you be
so calm well only one of us has to panic
and you're good at that sit down
look desmond your little girl is not a
little girl anymore she's a woman
an independent woman as she so often
reminds us so if they are
you know
you shouldn't be surprised well i'll
never get used to it
i know desmond
if we had our way our children would
stay five years old forever
yes well this looks good um you're
convinced there's a market for a
tropical fish up in peckham yeah
that's why i confess to the iron
okay well i need to think about it why
don't we meet up sometime next week all
right
my personal assistant will sort it out
she has my diary mandy will you arrange
a date for mr naylor here please uh
certainly uh is next wednesday 11 45 am
okay cnc
uh yes of course um
peace
mandy will you uh find out how many
tropical fish shops there are in
are we changing our eating habits
amanda do you think i've changed in the
last three or four years do you want me
to be truthful well well yes well but
easy does it
well since you become a manager you do
seem to become a little bit more
how should i put it
smug
smug yes smug if i didn't know bedrock i
thought you got a new girlfriend
well if i had you'd be the first to know
after all we have been seeing quite a
bit of each other
yes michael
this is all our social appointments what
have we got today oh well today we have
lunch with the market traders at 4 p.m
we are at st christopher school trust
and tonight we are guest of honor at the
philharmonic charity gala at the queen
elizabeth hall oh which philharmonic
london or birmingham the reggae
philharmonic
tomorrow you have your reunion yes we
have
we
well i i i i thought it would
it'd be nice if you were there oh
well i'm not sure if i'm free oh
let me check my diary yes i'm free where
is it
the banks club wonderful is this the
reunion of your old university pals
yeah
wait a minute that smug looks coming
back is there something more to this
well
yes and
i think nine years ago when my best
friends and i graduated we all went out
for a meal and put in an envelope what
we hope to achieve in the next five
years and
well
four years ago we met and
compared notes
and the winner is
james oh
right james five years ago you wrote
i believe london is on the verge of a
property explosion i'd like to get a
piece of the action hmm well
well i joined the hard bottle and hard
bottle where i rose to district manager
i then moved on to farquhar and farquaad
oh no prestigious versa last dead men's
shoes in terms of promotion so i raised
some venture capital and set up on my
own peter's peters and peters
yes
yes cheers yes yes well done cheers
right
charlotte piguet smith
succeed in my job without having to
compromise because i'm a woman
i work on the money market commanding a
team of 10.
my salary is fabulous and the only
drawback is i have to get up early which
ages my skin knew it oh come on let's
hear it for charlotte charlotte
charlotte yes thank you yes
well
nigel clark your turn
i want to earn enough money to be as
silly as i want and more importantly
enough to watch the west indies qriket
team play anywhere in the world
come on nigel
well
last year i made enough money to afford
a return to get to australia to watch
the west indies
on my travels i saw a number of items
which i could sell to british businesses
and shops so i started importing in bulk
now i do the same in the caribbean and
in india
so i can safely say that i combine
business with pleasure
nigel
right dothuli
i want to be happy
i'm a british rep for a hong kong bay
shipping company and his name is martin
oh oh god come on gang let's hear it
and what did you put in your envelope
well i uh
i said i'd like to become a bank manager
really what a surprise
well at that first party i only got as
far as assistant
so now you've organised another one to
tell them you've become a manager
yeah
boy i wish i had a friend like you
you know what i'm gonna do for a fight
what's that i'm gonna have a word with
alex oh
not glory and alice again desmond please
you simply have to come to terms with it
how many more times we gonna have to go
through this
alex and gloria are perfectly happy yes
and we know why they're happy
oh come on dez i'm sure you and sure
must have got up to a bit hanky pages
that was a long time ago desmond the
father-daughter relationship is a
universal one there's no father in this
world who wants his daughter to grow up
yes and fooling around with women is
fine until it's your daughter that's
being fooled with that's right nice
look at you
can't you remember what it was like to
be in love come
oh look on
alex saying a layabout is he he's an
artist and if people are stupid enough
to pay the prices he's asking he can
marry my daughter anytime
that's it
i'll tell him to marry her make an
honest woman of
please don't wake up this is the 20th
century stop behaving like fred
flintstone
look i'm sorry about this little delay
could you ask them to hold dinner
you know if your friends don't turn up
soon i should be on the floor
well yes they are over an hour late
maybe the traffic's bad
maybe
i'm sure they'll turn up
my first time at this club i'm
embarrassing
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what are you watching
i don't know
it looks interesting yeah no that's why
i'm watching it
where's mom and dad in bed
boy there early well you know her
parents are in it the older they get the
earlier they go to bed
which also means they get up early
really early gloria early enough in time
to catch your boyfriend leaving your
room
all right give it a rest look let me
give you some advice you give me advice
well if you don't want to know all right
go on no
go on sean no no
pretty peace all right it's all right
say no look for alex man gee
you know the floorboards between mom and
dad's room and yours yeah well tell alex
they creak and watch out for the fourth
and the eight steps as you come down the
stairs
and i'll tell you there's a wicked one
outside this door how did you know about
all this well this little brother ain't
so little anymore
oh really well yeah of course you see
the advantage of being the youngest is
why mama that got their eyes on you i
can just slip in and do my thing you
need me
as if i'm going to tell you
hi
do you remember michael ever um what
michael
so wait is it serious between you and
alex then
well i think so but then again i don't
know
i mean i've never been here before
you know that feeling when you think
about a person and your stomach goes all
week and you get that tingling in your
armpits
it's impossible to put into words
but when the right one comes along you
know
oh
so do you think you'll get married then
married are you mad not to have to live
with him first
if you don't mind me asking when was the
last time you saw your friends
well um
we've all been very busy what with our
respective careers and how long
three
maybe four
months
years
some friends are you surprised they're
not here well our friendship is such
that we don't have to see each other
very often but when we do it's usually
very
michael
whoa
hey good to see you
hey listen sorry we're lazy hey what's
punctuality between friends exactly look
drinks there's wine beer spirit ah
you're a vodka man i remember you used
to build fruit used to be
responsibilities now you know no two
humble orange juices please of course
sorry michael this is gabby my partner
yes clearly
oh sorry james this is mandy gabby
mandy's my is she really hey nice to
meet you
that's like saying gabby michael's an
assistant bank manager
manager now whatever
two months ago we met her to creative
writing called diplogabs after i gave up
being a boring old estate agent actually
gabby just finished writing her book
called the real new man clever little
thing oh my god that wouldn't be michael
we might learn something
sorry we're so late i fancy felt sick i
went to stop for a while
oh silly of me
we met and married in st lucia a year
ago when i was out in the windy's for
the test match
she completely bowled me over
evancia this is michael
charmed michael is an assistant bank
manager branch manager now really wicked
snaps
when did you two months
i'm mandy would you like to make a seat
it must be hell on your feet at the
moment so finally find something more
satisfying than import exporting nigel
oh my god yes sometimes i think back to
those money-grabbing values we have five
years ago
one-dimensional oh
when my sister was pregnant she had to
lie flat on her back for six months with
her legs up in the air to reduce the
swelling in her ankles and no one had
told the doctor she had legs like tree
trunks anyway
uh you're not pregnant by any chance
though
you always were perceptive yes it's the
real thing isn't it darling oh michael
sorry this is my husband dave oh he's a
fireman how pleased to meet you
michael's an assistant bank manager uh
branch manager now actually yes i'm sure
you uh
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here it is my fireman day who would have
gifted me in a fireman he saved my life
and out of gratitude a marriage oh
that's wonderful
oh charlotte this is mandy uh michael's
partner
so dave how did you say
i was on the phone to a friend when i
completely forgot that i left my supper
in the oven the damn thing went up in
smoke i rang the fire brigade whereupon
dave rescued me
carried me down the ladder slung over
his shoulder no less lovely view of his
butt whoa exactly went into the flat to
fight the fire and while he was there he
rummaged through my things i found my
work number and rang me two days ago
the rest you know
congratulations oh charlotte you must
meet events in my mind
trouble with the babysitter hello
i'm sorry i'd leave martin at home the
kids in the end he's so good like that
changes nappies cooks he really is a new
man bizarre gabby just finished writing
a book on that haven't you darling
anymore oh the 80s were awful for that
word
the go get it wannabe mentality the 90s
is going to be a caring decade where
kids come first and korea is a long wave
second
by the way michael how's the job
it's okay
where's the food i'm starving oh it's
through there i'm mandy by the way
are you michael's partner yes you could
say
that our youngest who's three months has
just learned to hold his head up and the
other one said his first sentence this
morning do you know what it was no
potty whoops
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this is what it's all about
hi
is that you of course it's me who's in
there with you no one prove it
i'm alone alex is not with me well open
the door then
just go and get the coco and stop
harassing the girl i want to know that
blasted boys in there
oh and then dad search the room if you
want to but i'll tell you he's not in
there well who's laughing then i was
laughing at you because i can hear you
creeping along the corridor run away
floorboards four five and fourteens are
the ones you should watch out for
satisfied
it's all right janet it's just my dad
making a fool of himself again sean we
got him here
get it dad all right what
how are you joking dad
your friends are wonderful
yes they are aren't they
wonderful
what's wrong michael
nothing
oh come on michael talk to me i am no
talk to me
you always hold things so close to your
chest
do i
yes
every day i talk to michael ambrose bank
manager
you never allow me to talk to michael
ambrose person
that's the problem isn't it
michael ambrose has become the bank
manager and nothing else
but that can change
you had an ambition now you've achieved
it you've got to make room for other
things when
well i'll put it in the diary if you let
me know what it is you're looking for
i want what they've got
i've always wanted what other people
have
you and the rest of the world the grass
is always greener yeah when you get
there you'll find it's still littered
with dog turd
michael you're too hard on yourself
am i
yes
but that can change can't it
yes we can
we could slow right down
make more time for each other couldn't
we
yes we can
can we put it in the diary
yes we can
we can do dinner at my place tomorrow
night
yes we can
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ah when all is said and done you know
you can't stop gloria from growing up
never a true wet spoken pork bag yes but
will he listen no
look at it this way this
birds do it bees do it even educated
africans do it
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right that's it
some of us got to walk in the morning
yes
some of us do
yes and some of us need our beauty sleep
yep and some of us don't
no it did not neithers
lock up your daughter desmond ambrose
don't worry you won't be coming here
tonight
i hear you want to talk to me
that's good because i need somebody to
talk to
i mean
what is this world coming to
when everybody accepts as normal your
little girl doing a thing with her
boyfriend
is it me
am i the old-fashioned one here
or is it as i suspect that everybody
else is wrong and i am right
it's a difficult cross to bear being
right
but you do it well
all right i admit she's 20 years old
i remember what i was like at that age
but that was with other people's
daughters
yes
other people's daughters
oh oh this
uh i just come to drop off gloria's keys
yeah
don't worry i can see myself out
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you