I got the notification while cutting strawberries for my two-year-old daughter. It said that £25 had been taken from my Amazon account for ‘TVOD’. This suggested the purchase of some TV On Demand programming, albeit a very expensive unit of same.
I immediately presumed my wife had made the purchase via our shared account, but since this was 11am and she was visiting a friend in Berlin, it suggested her trip had taken a turn toward boredom that I found at least mildly alarming. This she must have done either at random, or else guided by a nascent passion for boxing of which I had been unaware I gently inquired as to what, precisely, she’d bought. No reply was forthcoming, but this was fairly usual.
She observes an attitude towards her phone I would best describe as casual. Others might call it neglect. In any case, trying to get an immediate response from her on any subject is like waiting on a fax from Batman.
On placing the fruity segments in front of my daughter, however, it became clear my wife had had nothing to do with it. My daughter was watching Thomas the Tank Engine , as she had been when I began preparing her snack, but a notification on screen displayed confirmation of a purchase she had made in the interim. Navigating back to the home screen, I discovered her nimble little fingers had managed, click by click, to order the pay-per-view offering advertised directly above it.
Namely, that evening’s world heavyweight boxing match between Tyson Fury and Oleksa.
