I ended up in a long line at my favourite coffee shop today. We were going to cheer on the runners in the marathon so it was an especially long line today. And I ended up chatting with the woman beside me. I don’t know how it came in up in our small talk but she was mentioning her son and his wife and how she was worried about them never being able to afford a house in the city.

I can never just nod and smile so of course I said, it’s ok, we don’t have a house in the city and we are fine. She said, yes but they want to have kids.