But he never drank whiskey
There were plenty of constants in Frank's life. One was that nothing made him angry, and the other was that he had a stock set of responses. When he and Mum were having an argument and she said 'p$#s off' he responded (every time) with 'I'll have a whiskey then'. When she told him to get nicked he said (every single time) with 'I have been'. When we were trying to play cricket in the backyard and Amigo kept hanging around wanting to chase and steal the tennis balls (he could fit about five in is mouth, it was like trying to open a vice getting them out and if you did they felt like they'd spent twoyears on the floor of an ocean) and Dad happened to be down near the clothesline or the house we'd say 'can you call the dog Dad?', he'd yell (every single time) 'Dad! Dad!'. He loved the kind of gags that were funny the first three or four times but he stuck with them for way too long. It drove you insane to be on the recei