Childish ways
Did you ever get the saliva and handkerchief treatment?
You know, you are just about to go somewhere and your mother says, ‘You can’t go looking like that’, and she licks a corner of a hankie and starts dabbing at your face.
You looked fine when you looked in the mirror, but judging by the amount of rubbing the face now requires you must have looked like a commando about to go into combat, or a bowler on a sunny day at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Of course, that was …