"We both agreed that I was the funny one in the relationship. The only joke I ever told she didn't like was that one about those little Thai footy fellas that fell down that well and had to be scoobied out by that fella that turned out to not be a paedophile. And fair play, that joke was in bad taste. I'm a big enough man to admit that. Some men wouldn't. She never gave me enough credit for that, how big I can be."
As Ainsley delivers a mysterious parcel for a former lover, he contemplates how he has ended up here and what it means to be a modern man.
BOX TICKING stars Conor MacNeill (Industry, The Fall; BBC) as Ainsley. It was written by Robert Darke and directed by Grace Vaughan, with sound design by Piers Sherwood Roberts.
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