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💔😤 £29 IN MY ACCOUNT, MY SON IN WORN-OUT TRAINERS, AND THE TESCO CASHIER WHO QUIETLY SAID: “YOUR CARD’S BEEN DECLINED” I thought about this for a long time before writing it. Because I still feel ashamed when I remember that evening. My name’s Harriet Way. I’m 33, I live in Erdington, Birmingham, and I’m bringing up my son on my own. His name’s Leo. He’s eight. For visitors, Birmingham means canals, bright lights, the Bullring, busy cafés and photos in Victoria Square. For me, Birmingham is the bus that’s running late again. The rent that swallows more than half my wages. The supermarket queues after work. And the constant fear that your child will ask for something perfectly ordinary, and you’ll have to say it again: “Not today, sweetheart. Next time.” I work as a shop assistant in a clothes shop near New Street station. It’s not a boutique. Just an ordinary shop. I fold T-shirts, hang up jackets, tidy the fitting rooms after customers and smile when I’ve got nothing left inside. I take home £1,280 a month. The rent on our little flat is £740. Bus pass. Electricity. Gas. School dinners. Things from the chemist, because Leo’s always picking something up in winter. Food. And an old debt from after the divorce, when I had to move in a hurry and buy at least a bed, a fridge and a wardrobe. His dad didn’t disappear in some dramatic way. There was no big scene. First it was, “I can’t this month.” Then, “We’ll sort it later.” Then a new girlfriend, a new life, a new number. And Leo and I were left in the old life. Somehow, I kept going. It’s what we mums do. Even when we’ve got nothing left. Last month, Leo’s trainers started coming apart. Just a little on one side at first. Then more. I noticed while he was sitting at the kitchen table doing his homework, swinging his foot underneath it. The sole had peeled away almost halfway along the shoe. “Leo, why didn’t you tell me?” He looked at me and shrugged. “They’re still all right.”
