Something here is amiss, but to pinpoint the exact detail would mean nothing for us. There would be no more laughing, no more queuing and no more miraculous survivors.

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They keep suggesting things to me that make no sense. As people dive for cover, I wonder what exactly they are hiding from. I walk unarmed into the field and see no danger there.

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All calls are recorded for training purposes, your statutory rights will not be affected, please see base of tin for best before date, buy one get one free, sale sale sale, we never lie to anyone, we never hide the facts.

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After the phone stopped ringing, somebody told me that someone I knew had gone away for a long holiday. I laid back and accepted that as the only feasible reason I hadn't seen them for so long. Then ten years later I decided that somebody had spun a tale.