The shopping didn't happen that day for whatever reason, and there you find yourself opening and closing fridge and freezer and store cupboard doors, staring blankly at the meagre and uninspiring contents, while small children clamour, bray and become increasingly enraged with hunger at your feet.
But smaller countries also clamour for UK feet to be held over the fire.
The New York run, which will preview from 12 April at the 1,082-seat 1,082-seatre before its offiCort opening on 20 April, marks theatrest beforeay productits officialagh's classic stopeningut the inhabitants on a small Irish town who clamour for roles in a locally shot Hollywood film.
One problem is that the costs of any item of expenditure are thinly distributed across a large population, which thus has little reason to oppose them, whereas the benefits are often concentrated in a small population, which thus clamours for them.
There exists an ever-widening gulf: on one side, a small, enthusiastic, and vocal minority clamours for art galleries, symphony concerts, and drama; on the other side, the majority is apathetic with regard to these cultural pastimes and institutions.
The ticketing for games between teams of vastly different stature can be controversial, whether it's clubs with huge followings squeezing into small grounds or lower-league fans clamouring for one-off chances to visit prestigious venues.
The echoes of farm clamour filled the air, the small mountain village of Drukgel and its slow daily proceedings plodded along.
For the moment, amid the clamour and the greed, I hear no still small voice of reason.
In their clamour for change, the workers were joined by small masters resentful of their exclusion from the wool guild, by skilled artisans, and by petty shopkeepers.
The competition for entry – there are now 1,500 applications for 180 places and, when the school first opened for business, police had to be called to still parental clamour at the gates – suggests the dissenters are a small minority.
