A SINGLE woman’s active social life is discussed by her friends in the condescending tone normally used about a grandmother with only a Yorkshire terrier for company.
Unmarried Nikki Hollis, aged 37, enjoys a wealth of hobbies, solo foreign travel and all-night parties, which according to her married friends ‘at least means she gets out of the house’.
Friend and mother-of-two Sophie Rodriguez said: “Every weekend she’s off seeing a play, going clubbing, having a spa weekend. The poor, overcompensating cow.
“Saturday she was at a champagne reception, drowning her sorrows. Yesterday she posts a video saying ‘I’m so scared’ ostensibly about doing her first sky dive, but really because she’s afraid she’ll never find a man and will die alone.
“Every week she’s at a new restaurant. I suppose it’s an outing and better than the beans on toast she eats every other night. And a chance to hear a voice that isn’t the shipping forecast on Radio 4.
“I don’t know who she thinks she’s fooling with her rock climbing, her girls’ weekends in Lisbon, her art galleries, her gigs, her holidays in Iceland. All the desperate acts of a woman uncertain why she is even alive.”
Hollis said: “Why do all my friends keep randomly telling me I’m brave? Is it because of the camel race I did in Dubai?”
