tales from an ordinary world

2002-04-18

in the supermarket, one of the staff confronts two teenagers trying to sneak into the bottle shop. they're quite unhappy at being caught and thrown out, and make monkey noises as they leave.

In Second Spin, it's empty, and the sounds of the first Scud Mountain Boys CD drifts through the shop - "please come back to Glacier Bay," he sings. I pick up two CDs, by Manu Chao and Jim White, and head for the bar nearby - the one with a wall covered in curly spades and crosses.

After 15 minutes, they dim the light once again, and it's getting a bit too hard to read. While I wait for the tram, a white Saab does a quick u-turn just nearby, and races back the other way, not quite stopping in time behind some cars waiting at the lights. In an instant, you know what's going to happen, but you don't really want to believe it. Just a minor, minor collision, but the sound of car hitting car still sends a chill up the spine, every time.