Safety feature

[todayiamadaisy]

You know those people you've never met, but you see regularly out and about? There's a youngish, stick-thin, goatee-wearing chap like that whom I often see striding the mean streets (actually, waiting at the bus stop) of the City by the Sea in an all-black outfit, complete, even in summer, with tie, long woollen coat and beret. I noticed him somewhere else yesterday: bringing in the wayward trolleys at the supermarket, for which job he has to wear a fluorescent orange safety vest over his poetic black ensemble. I suspect it's not really a look he enjoys.