Thanks to Angel. This is from a thread about age gaps in relationships.
“At the age of 78 former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is to marry his girlfriend Maike Richter, who is 35 years his junior.”
My father is 77 and I am 44. I can’t imagine the attraction other than money.
Julie P, Atlanta, United States
You do realise that you’ll probably inherit it all even if you stop sleeping with him?
That thread is almost entirely populated with two responses (”she’s after his money” and “it’s a private matter”), so the occasional departures really stand out. Rodney Trotter is ploughing his own, slightly wonky, furrow.
It isn’t a question of age, but whether they have a similar outlook on life, aspirations, humour, and of course, love. Two adults with alot in common will always gravitate towards each other, regardless of age.
Anybody on the other hand, who wants to have a relationship with a child, ought to be exterminated.
Rodney Trotter, New York-Paris-Peckham
It works best if you imagine Rodney pausing after his first paragraph and gazing into the distance, a slight smile playing on his lips. He’s remembering a past love: the thrill of the chase, picnics in the park, laughter, the way his eyes would linger on hers until that summer dress lures his gaze down, between her breasts… then he thinks about paedophiles and the best way to murder them.