Once upon a time when in a market you would hear "Around The World In Eighty Days" played by the Molar Scraping Strings. Last week it was Walter Egan's "Magnet And Steel" on the appropriate feed selected by the shift's Background Wrangler. Ah, one of those 80's ditties that in its day sounded like an anthem to romance scored far more easily by others than by me, a retro feeling melody and arrangement which meant the revolution in public taste commenced during the Nixon administration which said, "Wasn't being fifteen long ago wonderful? Hang on to it!" was in full backward crawl.

And here we are a quarter of a century or so later and I hear an odd sibilant echo. Sure enough, it's that healthy looking lady over there who appears to have been around to hear it as a hit. Would I say anything?

No, I never bought that.