In brightest day

On the day: 
18//05/2012 


On the way: 
The bus stops. 
Two passengers make their way to the exit, an elderly man wearing a dark beanie and a ragged, grey, white-flecked beard, a wide woman in a voluminous coat. 
The exit doors remain closed, so they turn and shuffle towards the front door, that one's working fine. (A few stops further on, the faulty bus will be evacuated entirely and its passengers moved en masse onto the next one, and the exit doors will choose that moment to co-operate, go figure.) 
Someone is sprinting up the pavement, bearded, balding, his black  suit jacket flapping after him, one in-ear phone flying out after that, a brown shoulder bag bouncing on his left hip.  He leaps onto the bus with a smile of relief, and is that a Green Lantern badge on his left lapel? 
Must be me. 


On the pod: 
London Still - The Waifs 


On the front page: 
Float puts $104bn tag on new era facebook (The Times)