Some cities have now dedicated pedestrian lanes for people using smartphones, have embedded traffic signals in the pavement where smart phone users are more likely to see them, preventing their unwitting stepping out into traffic, and have erected smombie warning signs.

The medicine, whatever it might be, had the merit, rare in doctor’s stuff, of being pleasant to take, assuasive of thirst, and imbued with a hardly perceptible fragrance,

You can even be a wee bit more skank and don a dirty shirt. Unwashed underwear, however, is a no-go.

But when it came to action I found myself between the fires of two professional narrow-mindednesses.