The plumber who just re-engineered my central heating kept telling me, "We will move the boiler here, it won't take us long." In fact, I soon discovered, he always worked on his own. The week before he started work he said, "we are going to Spain" to sell his house there. I never discovered if he travelled alone.
On the other hand Vanessa used to say "I... I... I" when (it took me some time to realise) she was always accompanied, usually by her quasi-boyfriend, Bland. "I went to Hyde Park.... "My flat... my bed... my computer." "I'm going back home to Germany for a week...." Always part of a never-mentioned micro-posse. Why do you need to buy two tickets, then? Intelligent and with brilliant English, yet she never seemed to understand why I found this false I-ness so annoying.
I. We. Is it so difficult?
