RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31837, 15 November 1968, Page 16

RANDOM REMINDER

DOUBLE INDEMNITY

Flat owners and flat dwellers are not nearly as discontented with their lot as might be imagined by those who romp about their spacious gardens and entertain in rooms big enough to hold 50 people comfortably. Those in flats will point to how handy they T are to town, how much more convenient it is keeping house. And quite a number of those in flats do have their own gardens at the back. Two such flat dwellers in Christchurch were both working in their gardens

one recent sunny day—readers will remember it—and the world seemed a very lovely place. Inside, the wives went about their chores dutifully. One of them, with the evening meal nearly ready, heard her husband come in and run the bath. She waited a while, then summoned him, by knocking at the door. But she could not be heard above the splashing and singing going on inside. So she opened the door, and told him that tea was ready. He was not in the bath still, but he was just emerging from it, and he

stood with his back to her, amid the swirling steam. And he did not answer her. But she did not pursue the matter further, assuming he had heard her announcement, and she is glad she left the business at that stage. Because flats built in blocks often looked very similar indeed, and what could be more natural for a weary gardener to go in through the door of the next-door flat instead of his own, to find precisely the same sort of bathroom there, and to get into his neighbour’s bath?