My father said that he had been made redundant from his job. My father said that he would be on the dole. My father asked how they could live on the pittance that the government would give them. My father said that the dog would have to go. My father said that it cost thirty-five pence a day for dog food, he was a single-parent child whose father was on the dole. My father said that Social Security would be buying his shoes.