The fans who sought to get a head-start on the commute home before the final siren sounded to confirm their team’s shocking defeat were booed even more than the team itself.

Myra went for the fist-bump, while Lamar went for the handshake. At the moment of contact, the universe collapsed.

Despite the loss and the accompanying bruises, the third-grade team took up the barbeque, the timekeeping and the other club duties without complaint.

On his first day attempting to save the planet entirely on his commute to work, Mark got lost twice and hit by a car once, leaving his bike mangled but luckily for him, his body unharmed.

The two brightly-clad teams clashed on the muddy field. By the end the spectators couldn’t tell them apart.

A working-from-home John took his break cues from the nearby primary school and its bells, just like he used to when he was a kid.

Kate had worked it so there was only 17.6 seconds of exposure to the winter air between her hot shower, towelling off and being rugged up in a minimum of two layers of clothing.

As the solar flare and imminent death leapt toward her spacecraft, Captain Millicent Reacher could only think of the story of Icarus, taught to her as a child, all those years ago on Earth.

As the cry of ‘Come in spinner’ came from the boxer, the crowd whipped itself into a frenzy, airing their bets as the spinner thrust the paddle skyward and the pennies glinted in the sun.