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Mum doesn’t look after her headphones because she knows I’ll always be there to buy her new ones
My mum, Maggie, is constantly losing her headphones. Not occasionally – constantly. They don’t just fall behind the sofa once every six months – they vanish into the ether every few weeks then reappear months later in improbable places. Because she is elderly and not particularly comfortable ordering things online, I usually buy replacements for her.
Whenever she loses her latest pair, she asks, “Could you order me another pair of those headphone things?” and I always do, of course. The trouble is that the house has now become a graveyard of headphone cases.
