My friend Cherise was in a cafe on the corner of Kingsland Road last week and next to each of the power sockets was a sign that said something like, “Due to the credit crunch we need to charge £1 per hour to anyone who needs to plug in their phone or laptop”. I like the way everything is now “due to the credit crunch”. People aren’t being stingy, oh no, they’re just being sensible about the credit crunch. What next? Putting a fistful of coins in the meter before your local greasy spoon will fry you an egg? Paying for the washing up liquid so that you’ll get clean plates to eat it on? Bringing your own waitress to serve you the food?
All this got me thinking so I sat down and tried to foresee some other things that will soon be happening “due to the credit crunch”. Read more »
Posts Tagged ‘Credit crunch’
The credit crunch’s overlooked victims
Bowie - the bastard that started the recession
You know who’s fault it is that you’ve had to move three Latvian haulage companies into your trendy East London warehouse space? Ziggy fucking Stardust that’s who. Yep, in the kind of wildly unpredictable move which has made finance such a giggle over the last six months, an expert has come out to blame David Bowie for starting the credit crunch.
