Dad has been home from the war for a few weeks and Mum has only slightly scaled back on her partying. One afternoon, John is in his room reading Wind in the Willows and he overhears Mum and Dad in the kitchen.
Exasperated, Dad says, "You're inviting the girls over again tonight? Didn't you just have them over two nights ago?"
"Well, we like to get together and have fun. Besides, they're bringing their husbands over, so it isn't as if you'll be the only rooster at a hen party."
"And where are we getting the money for all this food and wine? Is this what you did while I was gone? Is that why our bank accounts are in such shambles?"
"I had to do something while you were off playing soldier!" Mum says defensively.
"You take that back!" Dad growls. He throws something at Mum and the object shatters on the floor.
"Playing soldier," Mum snarls through gritted teeth. "It was a pointless war over some bloody islands."
Dad throws something else at Mum and the object hits the wall with a thump. He stomps out the door, grumbling about not getting into arguments with drunken idiots. Moments later, John hears the car start.
John's greatest fear is that his parents will get divorced.
A/N: I doubt these are Mum's true feelings about the Falklands War; she's only saying this because she's drunk and trying to provoke her husband. He knows it, thus his refusal to take the bait.