Scenes from lunch

Today I stopped into Z Pizza & had a couple of slices (ZBQ & pepperoni; good stuff).

There's a flat panel tv on the wall, turned to CNN.

• Timing: On the constant SHOUTING CRAWL at the bottom of the screen, a new headline began:

  "IN A SURPRISE MOVE"

  Then the crawl was wiped out for a full-screen STOCK UPDATE placard.

  I never did find out what the surprise was.

• Playing Telephone: Overheard from a nearby table with a hard-of-hearing elderly man and his somewhat younger companion --

  "what's that?" "A terrorist attack"
  "where?" "in London"

  And that was all they said about it.

  Of course, it wasn't a successful attack.

  But the older fellow will probably think there was a bunch of death in London today.