My friend works long hours in the mines. I think it’s three weeks on; one week off – something like that. To cope with the intense workload he travels during the breaks. He’ll often visit somewhere warm and cheap, like Bali or Thailand. If he has a girlfriend at the time he’ll invite her along to enjoy the sunshine. For the last six months or so he’s been in a pretty serious relationship. His girlfriend’s even convinced him to quit his job and move to the city. After his final week of work they travelled to South East Asia for a vacation. While checking into the five-star accommodation his girlfriend flicked through the brochures in the lobby. On the back of a scuba diving advertisement she discovered a picture of my friend arm in arm with another girl. She didn’t talk to him for the remainder of the weekend and on returning home she called off the relationship. He’d been a little reckless in his resignation and can no longer return to the mine.