The three of us had been having a really enjoyable time on our lunch break right up to the point when my money stopped working. Now, if you happen to work anywhere near the downtown mall – say, within a three-block radius – or if you have some other grounds for knowing me, you’ll know I’m not the sort of person to let a technological inconvenience ruin their mealtime; but when said occasion is simply made impossible in toto by a malfunction that’s, for once, no doing of my own, well—I can’t choose except to let ruin have its way with the food and drink I won’t be having.