• Tales of the City – February 2020

  20/02/2020

  On the way home from the opera I step into a shop to get out of the rain, and buy something to eat against the cold – a late-night post-operatic chittery-bite.

  In front of me are two young men dressed in much less than I am. They are the worse for wear and arguing.

  Drunk Young Man #1: Well we’ll ask someone else then.
  
  Drunk Young Man #2: Yes! Someone neutral.
  
  They turn to me.

  DYM#1: Here man. Settle an arugment for us will you. Is coronavirus real or is it propoganda

  Self: I think it is real.

  DYM#2: Aye man. Told you. It *is* real. He said so. Here, I bet you do a very responsible job
  
  DYM#1: Aye very responsible. What are you man?

  I hesitate a moment and consider how to answer.

  DYM#2: I bet he’s a Supply Chain Manager. Are you a Supply Chain Manager, man?
  
  I smile a smile that I hope will look like the smile of a cold wet Supply Chain Manager.

  DYM#2: I knew it.

  DYM#1: Hey, do you have a lighter?

  I shake my head.

  We are all forlorn that I do not have a lighter.

  Tales of the City

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