Keeping up appearances

...John and Sue (Mr & Mrs) have a well appointed apartment in the boulevard. It is one of the best specifications around. John retired early from a very good job and is committed to life in the bay. Sue likes to have the good things in life. Only crystal glasses are allowed in her apartment and the best at that. Sue will never been seen, if possible, talking to men wearing vests, that is not the done thing they have to have at least a T shirt on or preferably a short sleeved shirt (John has lots of said shirts). John and Sue like to spend a similar time in the Marina bar to me and they often meet up with their friends ,(I wear a vest), and do what we all do to pass the time, sharing data and possibly gossip and maybe offering advice to the tourists who are contemplating a life in the sun.

John has, as we all do, a capacity for alcohol, but he likes to exceed it. We can all tell the exact moment too, his Scottish lilt raises in volume and we know if he is in disagreement with a member or members of his party. "I'm sorry......" " I am sorry..." he will launch "...but you are wrong..." Sue tries to divert the crowd by explaining the latest items of attire she expensively obtained from Punt Roma in the shopping centre, but John by now is causing pain to his amigos because to reinforce his point he is thumping them playfully in the thigh or arm. Their interactions and forceful points of view, their preference for good living and elegant things, and disdain for the common and mundane, has almost fatefully attracted the title as Mr and Mrs Bucket. And as one of their friends Jack said poignantly one day "John may have several faults but one of them isn't being wrong.....!"