A Few Recent Conversations:

Conversation 1:

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Scene begins with Alice and Mum chatting about everyday, nonsensical things in kitchen whilst unpacking some shopping. The phone rings and Mum goes to answer it. Carrying on unpacking, Alice is mildly intrigued when she overhears phrases such as "so not very old at all then" and "and how often would you have to feed it?". After the phone call is over with, Mum returns to the kitchen...

MOTHER: (cheerfully) sorry, what were we talking about?
ALICE: Um, I've got no idea now, nothing important I don't think. Who was that on the phone?
MOTHER: (rummaging through bags and rising triumphant with a carton of milk) Karen. Have you found the sugar?
ALICE: Mm. It's in the cupboard. What did she want?
MOTHER: (opens cupboard to retrieve sugar) Oh, just some advice. She's adopted a baby squirrel.
ALICE: ..... (blinks) .....
ALICE: .....Baby squirrel?.....
MOTHER: (nods) Yep.
ALICE: ..... (blinks) ..... Oh.
MOTHER: (nods again) ...Yeah. That's what I said when she first told me, too.

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Conversation 2:

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Scene begins in well known Pizzeria. Alice and Mum are waiting for their starters to arrive and making small talk. Seeing a woman walk by that look a little like Amanda (younger sister of Mum), Mum remembers something...

MOTHER: That reminds me! You know that Manda's been having problems with her liver lately and the doctors had been running tests.
ALICE: (half listening whilst playing with straw) Uh-huh.
MOTHER: (conspiratorially) Well, she went to get her results yesterday. Apparently the levels of the enzyme that Manda's body is having trouble with should be between 8 and 10, right? Any higher than that isn't good, and when you get to around 50, the doctors are really concerned.
ALICE: (abandons fiddling with straw and turns her attention to fork). Uh-huh. And what are her levels?
MOTHER: (gravely) 233.
ALICE: ..... (drops fork) .....

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Conversation 3:

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Scene begins with Alice and Mum arriving at Karen's (youngest sister of Mum) house to give Gavin (husband of Karen) card and presents etc. to celebrate his birthday. Time passes happily with talking and laughter, when Karen remembers that she promised to lend a DVD to Mum a while ago. Hunt for said DVD pursues and Karen produces two large cases containing individual DVD slots. Mum gives impressed exclamation...

MOTHER: (impressed) Wow, Kaz, how good is that? They've each got their own little slot?
KAREN: (hunting through rows of DVDs) Mm-hmm. Now, I know it's here somewhere... Here, Kayleigh, double check this while I start on the next one.
KAYLEIGH: Alright. ..... (starts checking) ..... Nope, not in this one.
KAREN: (frowns) But it must be! It's not in this one, either. Oh, crap! Have you moved it?
KAYLEIGH: (indignant) No! Why would I? I don't watch that show.
KAREN: (starts searching again) OK, OK...
MOTHER: Can't you find it?
KAREN: (distracted) No, but it must be here. Kayleigh, check it again... Are you sure you don't have it?
KAYLEIGH: (miffed) I TOLD you, no.
MOTHER: (bemused) Sorry, I don't understand; don't you have your DVDs in alphabetical order?
KAREN: ..... (stares in stunned silence) .....
KAYLEIGH: ..... (stares in stunned silence) .....
MOTHER: ..... (still bemused) ..... No?
KAYLEIGH: ..... (stifles giggle) .....
KAREN: (continued to stare, now smiling pityingly) No, dear. I don't do that. YOU do that, but I don't.
MOTHER: (surprised) Oh. Ok.
KAREN: ..... (shakes head ruefully and keeps searching) .....

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