(wife) give the banker a break

it never fails to amuse me the way in which middle aged men speak to their partners when making a phone call home on the train/ very quickly into my journey on the 18.48 i could detect this guy was having to justify his lateness to the wife (i rarely get on anything less than the 7pm train)/this chap must have been at a conference/event/meeting or something as he had had to travel from victoria at a time later than his normal 5.30pm finish. He was completely loosing the battle with his lady and he even gave me a smile knowing so. The killer line to his lady was "i can get another job if you want but it pay less" at which point he hung up/