7 Responses to “Ticket F574, go to counter 5”

1. Sanisha says:
   April 12th, 2007 at 9:33 am

   uhm Saleem…do you think it would be better if we got bar-coded chips implanted…but at the risk that identity fraud will still take place…it would literally be a

   “i’ve-got-you-under-my-skin” type thing

2. Saleem says:
   April 12th, 2007 at 9:40 am

   I do not.

3. Mogogo says:
   April 12th, 2007 at 9:46 am

   I like this dynamic of quirky questioning from San and definitive terse responses from Sal.

4. Sanisha says:
   April 12th, 2007 at 10:03 am

   Maybe he was standing in the Passport Office and maybe he was practising terseness because he going some place where people are terse.Are you, Saleem ?

5. Original Sin says:
   April 12th, 2007 at 10:35 am

   I like the concept of negative time, and in some ways it is true, particularly if you are a regular reader of the Metro; to stop reading it would give you approx 10-20 minutes of free time every day. Jippi!

6. Saleem says:
   April 12th, 2007 at 11:02 am

   Yes.

   No.

7. Mogogo says:
   April 12th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

   The negative time thing is very good, in an otherwise unremarkable post.

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Ticket F574, go to counter 5
Saleem | 12-4-07 | 7

This morning I made a rookie mistake: I entered a government building with an appointment, but no reading material. Facing an interminable delay in a mismanaged queue, I found a copy of Metro, one of the ‘freesheet’ newspapers popular in London. They are devoid of content and can be read in a moment, if not in sheer negative time: finished before one starts, because it’s all recycled news. But in the event, I was quickly served and amused: here in the Passport Office, the Metro’s headline was
IDENTITY FRAUD UP 70%

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