>on on holiday in europe
>stopping in london for a day
>stopped for lunch before meeting a friend
>forgot to set watch to the new timezone
>as a waitress what the time is
>toyme! Wots dat
>notice dark circles under her eyes
>dark circles under everyone's eyes
>people walking around in a confused trace
>ask the waitress what's going on. But she just stands silently with a empty look on her face
>"the bongs stopped" said an old man sitting across from me
>"the bongs, they used to come every hour. They told us when to sleep, when to eat, when to start work"
>"for hundreds of years the bongs guided our lives"
>"but now they have stopped"
>"the bongs have forsaken us"
>the man went back to his whiskey
>a taxi driver fell asleep, causing a crash that started a fire, which because the firefighters had never started work burnt the whole of london to the ground.
