On the day:
01/08/2012
On the way:
The man in the sober, dark grey suit is far away, transported in his chunky, white headphones, but still he must be maintaining some physical presence as half of his shiny black-shod foot is evidently over the yellow line when the jumped-up functionary in a luminous plastic vest, his temporary robe of Olympic office, approaches.
He leans into view to bring the businessman back from his daydream destination to the sooty-smelling platform. Then he points to the yellow line and the offending foot and explains the rules of the platform slowly and with exaggerated movements of his mouth, so as to communicate through the barrier of the headphones.
And, having overseen the movement of the offending foot by three inches away from the edge, he turns and bustles off, a job well done.
He's earned that sense of smug satifaction and tonight will sleep the sleep of the just.
On the pod:
Burning Down The House - Talking Heads
On the front page:
The greatest Olympian (The Times)
Who wouldn't love that kind of power ;)
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