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He is now quite addicted to alcohol, smokes and has spent a great deal of time over the last nine months asleep.

That's Mrs Gardner on her son during his first year at university. She had assumed her son would be "fully engaged" and suggested her assumption might be "very wrong".

You've got to give it to Mrs Gardner: she's willing to re-assess her assumptions in light of the evidence in front of her. It's just that, in this case, the evidence in front of her was so obvious — that an 18-year-old boy going to university for their first year would do everything but study — that she was being a bit unrealistic.

I don't know about you, but I reckon her son (who let her know he thought he would be doing more studying) was having her on.

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