In the most innocent of cases, I was merely sitting there waiting for the missus to come out of a shop in town recently.
Opting not to go inside, I sat there on a bench in a pedestrianised part doing a spot of people watching. Nearby, I could hear a parent on his mobile phone talking to what was clearly one of his offspring about renewing the breakdown cover on his or her car. The conversation from what I could muster seemed to revolve around the dad not being happy about them travelling to Guildford, Surrey and back (around fifty odd miles
