Toni Le Busque's stories.

I used to detest cooking.
But this morning I cook the inner workings for a chicken pie because The Kid has found a cook book and I’m now a personal chef to a 16 year old.

'Dog ear the pages for the recipes you want,' I say.
‘Dog ear??? Phhht! What?’ she says.
‘You fold it over and it looks like a dog ear,’ I tell her.
She finds this funny ha ha.

At the supermarket checkout I say let’s play guess the total.
The Kid says yeh, okay, and gives me her prediction.
She’s spot on while I’m 17 quid off the mark.
‘Nah nah nah nah nah,’ she says.
‘How you getting home, now?’ I say, ‘Long walk in the rain.’

Then the checkout operator gives me the receipt.
‘You’ve saved a grand total of 61p off your next shop,’ she says.
‘Ooooh, awesome, I say while the Kid starts to push the trolley toward the exit.