In The Passing


MAN: (frustrated) What the fuck’s wrong with this fucking photocopier now?

Man crouches and starts looking at flaps and doors, giving one or two a slap. Woman leans over and looks at the control panel.

WOMAN: It’s finished.

Roving reporter explaining about the damage done to roads in the South of England following the severe weather we’ve all been enjoying:

REPORTER: So if you discover a pothole, please tell your council so they can look into it.

The council doing anything other than just staring into a hole, I’m sure is implied.

Conversation overheard today in Stirling:

WOMAN (surprised): He didnae hink ah wiz a slapper!

MAN (indignant): Am no giein’ a fuck if he diznae hink you’re a slapper!

Can’t help but think I’ll get the gist of the rest of this conversation on the news tonight.