Present day again

Okay so this just happened this morning, and I didn't want to forget about it, so, although I am not up to date with the blogs, had to skip to today. So I was walking across the Plaerrer, obeying all of the pedestrian crossing lights, which takes longer than just going underground, but it is nice out today, so. As I was awaiting my last green pedestrian and bike light, I noticed a man descending the stairs to the underground hesitantly. He had his hand up to his mouth. I thought he was either considering continuing to the underground route or above ground on account of the nice weather- just as I had contemplated a few moments earlier, and maybe he just nibbles his finger or something when faced with such a difficult decision. My second thought was that he was a chapstick lover(like myself), but was using a spread-on version instead of the actual stick version. I was thinking, maybe he is a lost American and I could aid him as a good neighbor.

Then, an arm came from out of my view, and grabbed his arm. A woman, presumably his wife, had made the decision for him, and they would be taking the outside route.( Or so I thought as they came back up to the top of the stairs). That is when I noticed they were both sporting clear little flexible, coiled wire extended from inside the collar up to a single ear. Something was going down.

I quickly gathered that they were searching for someone, or hunting maybe. Hunt. They sort of ran around like chickens with their heads cut off. I haven't seen this phenomena actually, but in my words I would say they looked like some people on a scavenger hunt being guided through their earpieces by a person in a helicopter high above. Pretty pathetic. Although the plain clothes threw me off at first from afar, my many years of independent covert agent practice had shined in that moment, and thought of how much better a job I would do of trying to hide my identity. I mean, what kind of technology requires you to move the microphone of the earpiece to your mouth. Lame technology, that is what. Anyway, after some delicious cold soup, I will now hydrate for the gym.

Silly German undercover people.