Bank Manager

Number One Son rang the other day .He is a sailor on Her Majesty's Australian Ship Pick -the-State-Capital-of -Your - Choice .He's 19 years old and -for what basically amounts to unskilled labour- is pulling 50k a year when he's at sea.Which he is at the moment, steaming away to a foreign duty free tourist destination all in the name of international relations.

He was distraught. "Everyone buys their girlfriends jewellery at this place Mum," he wailed "I can't afford it!"

 Why not? (see above).

It turns out that what he has in his pockets is pocket money. Sans rent, sans the mortgage on the investment house back home and sans each of their contribution to a must-give-two-weeks-notice-of-withdrawal high interest bank account.

Why is this woman a sailor in the Navy? She should be a bank manager. Or a psychologist - she got him sussed a lot quicker than I did.