Bin day, so ParsleySage put the bins and recycling boxes out this morning... just in time, as the bin lorry appeared on the horizon.

At the same moment I remembered the man from the garage was coming to collect my car for its MOT, so I dashed outside with a plastic bag to empty my trusty Honda Civic of all its cereal bar wrappers, random cds and child paraphernalia, to a backdrop noise of the bin lorry making its way along our street.

As I bent deep into the recesses of my car to scrape tissues off the floor, exposing a bit of flesh owing to my hipster jeans, I felt a delightful gentle and sensuous stroking along my exposed section of spine.

"Alright, darling?" I muttered absent mindedly.

When I stood up 10 seconds later, Parsley was nowhere to be seen - but the recycling boxes had been emptied!

So - Parsley or the bin man? You decide.

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