9 August 2013
In today’s FT letters page comes this from David Rowe-Francis. “Sir, I’m a young but old-fashioned man. I wear a shirt and tie, read the paper version of the FT and still use ‘please’ and ‘thank you’.
"On Monday, I was travelling on the Underground from Euston Square to Liverpool Street, when I noticed a young lady, in a grey and black outfit, reading the Lex column, which she had expanded on her lime-green-covered tablet. I was standing up, she was seated, and I found myself ‘shoulder-surfing’. I was genuinely trying to read the story but that is no excuse. She alighted at Moorgate. May I offer my apologies through your columns? If life were simpler, I would have got off and apologised in person.”
