Tick-Tock

Dadman has just finished work
I am in the kitchen ferociously attacking
all surfaces with anti-bacterial cleaner
when he comes down
It is 5.10pm

I am still grouchy.

"Cup O tea?" he asks
"Gosh, can't we just start drinking already?"
I ask
"No, we can't, you'll have to wait til
6 pm."

Bloody English and their customs
its okay on Sundays, but not Fridays
which just does not make sense.

After 6 though, dad man obligingly and sometimes
surreptitiously fills my glass
its like a bottomless glass of wine
blink and its full.