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And this is how I broke it to 'er indoors.
"I was sitting at my desk typing away and there was this bright flash and puff of smoke and a tiny fairy wearing a pair of denim dungarees and some DMs appeared. She sprinkled some fairy dust on me and cast a spell over me that made me leave the building and get a bus to Charing Cross and go for a stroll along the Strand in the direction of Chancery Lane. As I was walking along I thought I’d go for a quick super quick sprint to loosen up my tight leg muscles. There I was, hooning it along like Usain Bolt and I caught my right toe on an uneven paving slab and I tripped violently in a superman pose a full 40 meters head first straight through the window of Alsal Watches. Now this is the truly amazing bit…as my head hit the glass it triggered a neurological spasm that caused my arm to twitch in the perfect sequence to remove my credit card from my wallet and by sheer coincidence the credit card slid right into the card reader and I managed to face plant my pin number in perfect sequence. It all would have been ok as I had not yet pressed “enter” but then a particularly large fragment of plate glass landed on it and pressed it for me. Now, I could have asked for a refund because this transaction was purely accidental but I felt really really bad about the damage I had done to their shop and I thought making that purchase was the least I could do."