Into WH Smiths, look at the headlines, get the papers, get the papers.
Tick.
Go to Tesco's buy washing powder, feel bad for feeding the behemoth.
Tick.
Go to the bank, pay some money in... but what's this? A music channel plays apathy on the screen that once showed the BBC news. I ask the man behind the desk about the channel change.
"It's too gloomy."
Ha! Too gloomy for you maybe. Was it not too gloomy when people started dying at the hands of NATO in Iraq or Afghanistan? Was it not too gloomy when Madeleine McCann went missing?
Men, women and children dying.
Tick.
Banks start loosing money. Quick! Turn it off! Turn it off!
"People have a right to know".
I walk away.
Tick.
Transmission ends...
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