[Mandy's gotten used to being sideswiped by the past, it doesn't exactly roll off her back but it's not something that's going to lay her up in bed feeling sorry for herself. Most of the time]

I always have done better when I've got a million projects going on anyway. If I were slightly more of a masochist, I probably would have tried to go into management properly just to give myself the headache of getting four men halfway sober and where they need to be on time.

[she actually snorts at that, shaking her head]

See, I knew that was probably a universal constant. The boys don't want us actually working because then we're not as ready to jump in for a shag all the time. Or, the groupies decide we're hotter.

[there were some benefits to having a partner who, at least for a time, had been happy to share no matter who was involved after all. She'd been the one who got jealous, as much as she doesn't like to admit it.]