User Manual

TODAY...
Imagine you have just finished preparing the evening
meal. Tonight it is steak topped with seafood served
with a side salad. You collect up all the vegetable
peelings, prawn heads, meat trimmings and balance
them precariously on the chopping board to transfer to
the kitchen bin. You gingerly pry it open with your foot
because the pedal is broken and then sigh in defeat as
the tomato lands face down on the kitchen floor and the
onion peel becomes simultaneously airborne.
Now the evening’s over and beetroot juice is running down the side of the
kitchen bin, that no longer closes, raises the question whose turn is it to empty
and wipe it out.
Family members scatter like rats deserting a sinking ship and all that remains
is you, the bin, and the beetroot juice now pooling on the kitchen tiles and
cascading along the once white grout.