Craic On

“Coleette” was showing at the flicks, so a couple of friends and I found ourselves navigating our way around an enormous windswept rooftop car park in a tiny car. The cinemas beckoned. At the ticket office an adolescent made me an offer like no offer I have ever been made before. “Would you like to make use of the audio description facility that is free?” I don’t know why it has never occurred to me to try this before.  Imagine, you can go to the cinema and just as you might have naturally leant into the ear of your friend and asked what’s happening, a voice pipes up in your own ear “Missey is bearing down on Collette in an act of passion”. “All you have to do is put them on and the description will automatically start when the film starts,” said the youth.”  The excitement mounted. Nothing happened, because, the Youth had not switched the headset on and we were probably not the first people who couldn’t work it out as we fumbled about in the dark.  I leant into ask my friend what was happening.  “It