The document is a first-person account describing taking a pet hate for a walk at night. The narrator expresses disdain for the TV show Survivor and says if any of the airhead contestants had met the narrator's nanny, they would explode. The narrator fondly remembers the nanny's resilience, being unable to be knocked off even when withstanding mines, incendiaries and heavy bombing from the Luftwaffe. The narrator encourages the nanny to sit by the fire and smoke her Capstan Cork cigarette, recalling how her phlegm sizzled when she spat directly into the hot coals. The pet hate continues nipping at the narrator's ankle as they stroll