ROSEMARY ABBOTT | Culture
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Ryan Keats, a 29-year-old tradie from Christchurch once again found himself stumbling through the door in the early hours of Saturday morning after promising his girlfriend Sophie he’d “just have one.”
“Honestly, I had every intention of making it home by six,” Ryan explained with bleary-eyes and in a mild panic as he checked how much his Uber home was.
“But you know how it goes. The lads were all there, and next thing you know, someone’s buying a round of jugs after a hard week’s mahi, and then you’re on the pokies trying to win back the last round.”
According to Keats’ girlfriend Sophie, this is not the first time her hopes of a quiet Friday night with her boyfriend have been dashed.
“Oh every week, it’s the same,” she said with a sigh, scrolling through a series of texts from Ryan that began at 3:45pm with Ryan’s lies of, ‘I’ll just have one and be home soon babe.’
“I don’t even bother trying to make dinner plans on Fridays anymore. All I know for certain is most weeks he’s buying rounds for the lads or blowing any surplus money on the pokies.”
“When I got the text saying ‘Hey Soph, might be one more,’ I knew he was gone until the next day”.
More to come.
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