Advent calendar day 12

Nothing exciting to report from Middle-Aged Earth today. Vee is mired in her prelim exams and Gee is looking for work. Gee and I were on the bus today and witnessed the rudest man we have perhaps seen in a long time. This old git got up from his window seat and pushed past the man sitting next to him at the aisle. The man on the outer seat remarked "An excuse me would be nice" to which the old bugger replied " How about a 'get out of my fuckin' way'?" and continued to push past. Had there not been people standing in the aisle, my foot would have been stuck out to trip this cunt up. I watched him exit the bus and, as he passed the window, he gave the traditional 2-fingered salute. Nice.
Also, as we were leaving the Forge today the automatic doors failed (they had jumped their track) so we had to walk over and use the other ones. As we stood waiting for the bus, we watched mystified as people approached the doors, found them not to be working and just stood like stunned mullets waiting for someone to do something. And I see lots of broken umberellas just lying on the pavement, along with the other detritus of life. Do people think that we are aleady living on the spaceship Axiom where little servo-robots will come along and clear up for us? Gee has started referring to this as "purple lights" as he is convinced that people are receiving subliminal message via the flashing purple lights that are ever present on reality shows. I feel that we are moving more towards a "Brazil"-like world, where everything is met with a cheerful bureaucracy designed to move us no further forward.

Anyway, as we hurtle towards oblivion, here is another wee song. Today, it's a cut from the latest album (can you still call it that?) by the master himself, the incomparable Tom Waits xxx