She pulls out the drinking glasses, carefully placing them on the stove to rinse them out. She feels someone push a glass out of her hand and it crashes to the floor. She makes sure she’s wearing her slippers with the plastic soles so she won’t hurt herself and quickly gets a dust-pan and picks up the pieces. She pulls out another glass, trying to be more careful. Again it falls from her hands. Crash. And another one and then another one. They break in big pieces onto the floor.

