Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. When she realised that his eyes were upon her, she said in a throaty voice, ‘Oh, don’t mind me, dear. You carry on.’

As expected on a Monday morning, the clinic’s waiting room was crowded. There were a few old couples who were quiet, with the wives generally reading and the husbands looking around or watching TV.

Humorous parable about a king who unwisely seeks advice from his subjects on a tough engineering problem.

You could tell by the way she got off the helicopter that she wasn’t having any funny business. Perhaps she’d heard about the chap who’d been sent over to get their chakras realigned. He was effing and blinding by the time he left.

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When his key breaks off on the inside of his apartment, the narrator must fight bureaucracy and apathy in increasingly desperate attempts to escape.

Quince sells death. No wonder he likes his job.

Revolution at Ramsay and Co when Mr Ramsey appoints a new managing director.

Fifteen minutes to the deadline. Fifteen minutes to write the words that would end the career of a man who had once saved his life...

Not your everyday problem.