YESTERDAY

‘I see the Sal’s opened over the road,’ I said to the woman working in the shop opposite.
‘How long has it been there?’
‘Yes, it has,’ she said.
She was writing a receipt, wasn’t listening to me or looking at me, a step over the line is too far, I can read her thoughts but can’t put them into words.
‘How long?’ I said. ‘Recently is it?’
‘Yes,’ she said, ‘this week.’
‘Yesterday then?’
‘Yes, yesterday.’