A nice young kid was out minding his own business, trying to buy some weed, only to be told that the sole way he could procure said weed was if he were to first "smash the face in" of some weedy kid for no reason.
It seems like there aren't many places left where it feels safe to sit around in baggy shorts with your lobster skin and jumbo-size bottle of factor 50, just reading a book and minding your own business.
And yet I found myself minding quite a lot about the make-believe of it all.
They traditionally argue that people best serve themselves and the public by minding their own business.
In an article headline, "Crossing the street to avoid white men," Sisonke Msimang, a writer, invokes the spectre of "white impunity" and "violent acts perpetrated by white men against black people who were simply minding their own business".
Ministers first have to decide what kind of power Britain aspires to be: become a more or less insular country minding its own business, or remain some kind of global force able to intervene in far-flung parts of the world Civil servants have drawn up three broad categories for the national security council to consider today.
Technology can help.In this section Throwing away the key The new debtors' prisons Searching for a cure No brainer Migrants with mortar boards Minding the gap A different story Barack, Bibi and Iran ReprintsArizona State University has a system called eAdvisor.
To prove his critics wrong, he must show he is capable of the more pragmatic approach needed for the messy business of minding banks.
(Sons spend less time minding their progeny than their spouses do).The main obstacle to testing the grandmother hypothesis, as it has come to be known, is that most studies have involved small numbers of people, making it hard to draw sweeping conclusions.
At the same time, someone had better be minding the auguries.(Picture credit: AFP).
At school he envied the town-kids who could look forward to a cushy job minding grain-stores or writing propaganda.
