:06:01
This was how reputations
and friendships got made and broken.
:06:05
I know life.
:06:07
I've been there.
:06:11
To admit losing your car
:06:13
is to commit social suicide.
:06:16
Thank you, Jesus!
:06:30
No thanks.
:06:31
Asshole!
:06:32
Thank you, Lord, for all your help.
:06:36
Thy will be done.
:06:37
Thou art the Lord!
:06:39
Thy mercy is everlasting!
:06:43
After a chaotic start,
:06:45
Our Hero did quite well at school.
:06:48
Now, as a middle manager
earning 2.5 times the minimum wage,
:06:53
he had a respectable income.
:06:55
He looked set for a shining career
:06:58
within the company.
:07:00
He was generally content
:07:02
with his status.
:07:06
His sex life, however,
was less dazzling.
:07:10
He'd known a few women, but briefly.
:07:15
Since Véronique and I
split up 2 years ago,
:07:19
I'd had no sex at all.
:07:22
Had a good weekend?
:07:24
Don't ask. I'm knackered.
:07:26
My half-hearted attempts
:07:29
had all failed, predictably.
:07:34
Two years sounds long,
:07:37
but in fact,
:07:39
if you're working, it goes fast.
:07:43
Ask anyone. It goes very fast.
:07:50
Our Hero shared his offiice
with Bernard,
:07:53
fresh out of Electronics
and Automation School.
:07:57
I wondered what he did
with his life,