Things I Have Seen On My Way To Work That Are Guaranteed To Ruin My Day No. 5489

Today, in Charing Cross Station, a late-middle-aged man, smart and well groomed, dressed in a canary yellow P&O Ferries T-shirt and matching baseball cap, handing out flyers for a P&O sale, surrounded by much younger and wildly enthusiastic young men doing the same job.  Posture: stooped and weary. Expression: looking for all the world like his spirit was trickling away across the concourse like a dropped cup of coffee.