I'm pretty certain that parents will wonder what their children are up to whether they're with them or not, at home, at work or elsewhere. What about kids themselves though, do they run their fingers idly through their hair speculating what their parents might be up to ? Do they stop just for a bare moment and conjecture what mum or dad are doing right now?

I was thinking about this waiting in the lunchtime queue at the local sandwich shop. It was watching a man close to my own age picking up a couple of very syrupy wafers that led me to this. Were they for him to have with his snatched lunch in a nearby office? Would his kids - guessing, of course that he had some - ever think of him grabbing a sandwich for lunch, or having friends that they are unlikely to ever meet because they're workmates ? Do kids wonder what their parents do or how they might act at work? Do they?