Day 4

This day's starting badly, I hear the balcony door,
I look at the clock, it's a quarter to 4.
Rex gets up and quickly gets dressed,
He slides open the door and says, "Jen you are a pest".

"I've told you before, you're selfish and mean,
With no thought for others, your behaviour's obscene".
"Just get with the programme and stop acting the prat,
This nonsense stops now, no more, that's that!"

Today it is Monday, our busiest day,
With shipping to do before it's midday.
"We can't go out early, there's things to be done"
"OK" says Jen, "I'll just sit in the sun".

She's off to the deck with her fags and a book,
"Rex, I need the umbrella - can you take a look".
"I could do with a coffee", she says a bit later,
Rex says, "She thinks I'm her bloody waiter".

She's back in again, "It's hot where I'm sitting",
"I'm going upstairs to put on something more fitting".
She stumbles back down with a shawl round her waist,
Long tassles a dangling - you should have seen Rex's face.

"She'll get stripes on her legs if she dresses that way,
She'll look like a Zebra", says Rex, laughing away.
I'm off to do shipping and get myself dressed,
I'm in the middle and totally stressed.

We buy Starbucks iced coffee, it's our afternoon treat,
There's 12 in a pack and they last us a week.
Now Jenny has seen these on the fridge shelf,
"Can I have one", "Yes Jenny, please help yourself".
A mistake on my part as you will hear later,
Meanwhile it is noon and for lunch I must cater.

At lunch Rex told Jen, "Katie's coming from school,
She likes to come round and swim in the pool".
"If she sees you smoking, it's a bad influence,
So don't smoke whilst she's here, you know it makes sense".

She's off for her nap after a phone call from Roger,
And constant attempts to contact her lodger.
Rex in the garage, smells smoke so he thinks,
"Come over here Ali, everything stinks".
"I'm gonna shampoo the chairs, it's coming from those",
As he turns on the water and connects up the hose.

To the fridge I then go for a drink 'cause it's hot,
Remember the iced coffee - well she's drank the lot!
I know if I tell Rex it was cause such a fuss,
So I'm off to get Katie from the school bus.

Katy gets back and of course is excited,
She always is when we have people invited.
She runs up to Jenny, whose having a cough,
She looks in the ashtray, then runs back off.

Half an hour later when she'd had her swim,
Katie finds Rex and she whispers to him.
"Grandad" she says, "I need to tell you,
Your sister's been smoking - I know she's had two".
"I told you no smoking", Rex yelled at Jen,
"Don't let me see you do that again".
"She was in the pool swimming, she didn't see",
Katie misses nothing - would we all agree!!

As we approach the end of another long day,
Jenny comes up and has something to say.
"Tomorrow is Tuesday - can we have some fun",
"I'd like to go somewhere and get my nails done!"
"A real girlie day, I think would be great".
Oh goody, goody, I cannot wait.