Diary in the chapter never never nest
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This comic one act play ‘The Never - Never Nest’ is written by Ceclric Mount. This drama exposes the ‘ Buy Now Pay Later” marketing system.
Jack’s economic background
Jack and Jill, the couple, called their house a little nest. Jack’s salary was six pound a week. But he bought the house, the car, the furniture and the radiogram on monthly instalments. But the instalments came to more than seven pounds! For the extra 2 pounds he would borrow from the Thrift and Providence Trust Corporation.
Aunt Jane’s comment
Jane was Jack’s Aunt. She had the principle of “ready cash” and she never borrowed money from others. One day she visited Jack and Jill. She thought Jack had bought all the things with ready cash. She came to know that everything was bought in instalments.. So she criticized that even though Jack used the car, he was not the owner of it. Only the steering wheel, one of the tyres and two of the cylinders belonged to him. The instalment purchase seemed absurd to Aunt Jane, since had the policy of “Ready cash”. The juxtaposition of the aunt and the couple adds to the humour.
Interesting part of their life
Aunt Jane gave a cheque to Jack and asked him to pay off at least any one of his bills. Then Aunt and Jack left. On return Jack asked Jill for the cheque because he wanted to pay off instalments on the car. But Jill had already sent the cheque to Dr. Martin in order to pay off the delivery charges of her baby. Jill said “Just one more instalment and the Baby is really ours”. The most interesting part of their life was this: They had not fully paid even the hospital charges for the delivery of their baby!