He said that he had had to lend his father enough money for a gallon of petrol, he said his father had had an interview for a job. Besides, he added that his mother cut his father's hair and had given him a shave and had father what to say and how to behave. He told that It was pathetic to see how unemployment had reduced his father to childish dependence on others. He said that his father was waiting to hear from Manpower Services.