Reading Matters
A missed bus means killing time in the cafe for a while
When Susie watched her bus pull away, it summed up a day when very little had gone according to plan. Spinning out a coffee seemed a better idea than venturing out into the rain, so she went into the cafe and sat down opposite an older man who had sheets of paper covered with handwriting in front of him. In the hope of killing time with conversation, Suzie asked if the man had his life story in front of him. "No, these ar...