The game is on and I am sitting at one end of the sofa with David. We are watching and eating chips, drinking some beer (he lets me when I'm here). I have had enough to feel the light little buzz, and now I'm eating chips.

He says to no one, "I should have been a football player."

I laugh, "You used to play?"

"Uh, yeah, some, I should have kept playing it, there's good money in it."

I quirk a grin, "You'd have to go to college."

Silence. I'm smiling and laughing inside. Any modicum of work, he's just watching now.

We were on a three seater couch, I'm...