What an ass Andy’s dad is, why his wife suffers his ignorance, drinking and his attitude is beyond me, she should leave him and take everything she can.
Eric’s neighbour reminds me of a woman in a tv show in the late 1970s, called Number 96 it was about the lives of the residents in a block of flats in Paddington, Sydney, Doris was the self appointed concierge of the building and liked to know everything that was going on, her poor hen pecked husband was called Herbert, her favourite saying was Herbert why wasn’t I told?
the show was also very risqué it had bed hopping people, you got to see naked women’s breast, a bit of lesbian sex and gay men in bed, with Dudley Butterfield who was a right old movie buff, his line was did you ever see, he rattled off the name of a movie and then started talking about the main stars of the movie.
Number 96 gave plenty of teenage boys something to ogle at, and learn a thing or two about sex etc.