Life wasn't meant to be like this, Tasker might have thought, life wasn't meant to be like this and I wish I'd bought one of those K-Way waterproofs I saw on offer last week, and I wish I was at home, in my lounge, excitedly setting to work on the Arroword in the Sunday Mirror, with a beaker of squash and a Kit Kat.
He first began singing songs like the vaudeville-flavored "I'm a Nice Guy" and the hair-raisingly mawkish "(I'll Trade You) Laughter for Love" in the late sixties, when he moved up from being a lounge comic to working the big rooms in Las Vegas and felt he needed "something classy" to seal his new status.
Generation Y-ers do not aspire to work in airport lounges: Loosecubes offers people a choice of working atmospheres that include the "hacker vibe" (black T-shirts and not much in the way of light, apparently).
Megan Blackburn, an independent club booker in New York, who used to work at the Mercury Lounge on East Houston Street, another popular club with the new bands, said: "Fans are definitely looking for someone younger, someone they can relate to who looks like they came from the neighborhood bar".
Not to mention all that juicy industry chatter you overhear while pretending to work in the press lounge.
Need to print out a presentation for your morning meeting at 11 p.m. only to discover the business center at your hotel closed at 10? How about trying to work in your hotel lounge but getting no Internet connection?
This is me trying to work out exactly what lounging is.
Men more accustomed to working in the fields lounged in the shade beside a pink palace, picnicked on paella and spent a night relaxing.
The things most important to the corporate traveler are getting the aisle seat, getting into airline lounges to do some work, getting to the front of the plane so they can get out and arrive at their meeting earlier, and having a little bit of extra legroom, because they're probably working on a laptop the whole time".
In contrast, every bartender I've seen in Japan - from a hotel lounge to small restaurant's bar to high-end lounge - has worked in the typical Japanese style.
