The bread lover

I grew up in a family of boys. Five boys can be a hard paper to raise. The level of craziness in the house was on another level.

One time an older brother finished form six and was due to join university. He got a job in his vacation at a bakery. The lad was packing bread. Let us call him Bready. We were all proud of Bready. Afterall he was doing mature people’s things. Every morning he prepared a portable flask of tea to take to work. He also had a small tin of Blueband to accompany the flask.

When he got to the bakery, the loaves of bread were already there waiting for him. He would devour these until he could eat no more. Then for variety he would switch to the scones. This was his daily routine. He was getting paid the kind of pay that is exciting for a form six vacist, but rather inadequate for an adult with responsibilities.
One evening Bready returned home after a long day’s feast, I mean work. He found old man sitting in his chair in the living room minding his business.
After the duo had exchanged pleasantries, Bready mentioned he had something to talk to him about. Bready proceeded to inform old man that he changed his mind and would not go to university as planned. Old man was flamoxed as his temper flared like those quintesential no nonsense fathers of days past You see to old man a son without a degree was not a son at all. Old man asked him why.

Bready informed him that now that he had a job his future was sorted. He was making money after all. Old man asked Bready what was so special about this job that would make him decide to quit school. Bready informed his father unabashedly that the job enabled him to eat all the bread he had ever dreamt about.

Father quickly told him that he was in big trouble if eating bread was his life time ambition. Which woman would consider him potential suitor if eating bread was all he brought to the table father asked?
He later would ask mother where they could have gone wrong in raising Bready. Bready seemed like a fine young man. He got good grades, was responsible.

We did not know he had secret ambitions of making eating bread his destiny. Later Bready sobered up and joined campus.

He is now a responsible man with a family. But his bread eating ambitions will never be forgotten.