As I sat on the bus in Peckham I looked over at the phone
box, which smells of pee (this I know because I’ve stood at the nearby bus-stop
many a time) and I thought about how I’d seen a Snappy Snap shop that recently
had closed. And, I thought, yes, Snappy Snaps is really old technology and for
historic-recording purposes I decided to take a photo of the poster. As I
depressed the shutter two boys peeped from the side of the phone box. They’d
been hiding. Next thing: a voice from behind me, a man talking rather loudly into
his mobile: ‘Someone’s taking a picture of kids. Paedophile or somefing.’ To
say I was shocked gets close to how I felt. I put my camera away for the
day.
