It’s doing the job

The man down the street with the thin alsation dog has a sign on his door. It is an A4 sheet in a plastic sleeve and it is written in arial bold.

PLEASE
DO
NOT
DISTURB

In the two years we have lived here, I have never seen anyone open the gate or walk down the path or knock on the wire door.

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  1. Where was this bolt of inspiration during my formative years of alcohol appreciation, whilst I lived at my parents’ house, and when a doorknocking witness of some kind or other enquired in her broken Yugoslavian-English accent at the stroke of nine o’clock on a Saturday morn whether I cared to hear about the magnificent work of one Jesus Christ?

    An A4 sheet of paper, a plastic sleeve and four words…ingenius.

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