The Big Untidy Magazine

PEGS

Waiting in the supermarket queue
the couple before us, their trolley is full
we have only two things to pay for and
there's only one woman at the checkout.
Typical!
The woman in front of us says to her husband,
"They had pegs back there, quite cheap,
a pack of fifty."
The man is lost in his dreaming
(or lost in his boredom).
"I think we should get some,
they're extremely good value for money,"
says his wife.
The man thinks of football and Elvis and
the grass that's always greener.
He turns to his wife.
"You're not listening" she says, angrily.
He says nothing.
"I was telling you about the pegs!"