Tuesday 12 August 2008

7.18 AM, Piccadilly, W1

Escaping the rain, a young man boards the Number 38 bus and sits down. On his lap he holds a packet of chocolate-covered teacakes. He opens the packet, revealing two plastic trays, each containing eight cakes. Each cake is individually wrapped in blue and purple foil. He unwraps one and begins to pull it apart, eating the chocolate coating and biscuit base whilst holding the mallow portion between his fingers, which he eats last. He immediately follows it with another, and then another, continuing to work his way through the cakes.
Just before he finishes the first tray the bus driver brakes hard, and the entire packet slips from his lap onto the wet floor of the bus. He leaves his seat and bends over to pick up the domed cakes that are rolling around, ignoring the packet and the empty wrappers. He exposes the cleavage of his behind to the other passengers as he does so. He sits back down and continues to eat the remaining cakes. A short while later, he leaves the bus, packet in hand, while the wind picks up several of the empty foil wrappers and deposits them onto the wet pavement.

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