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[kangeiko]

We just had the two-minute silence. Our office and every office within sight gathered on the street (and, bear in mind that we're on a busy street in Central London). This isn't going to work, I thought. We get so much traffic, it'll be a farce. We'll just be a bunch of people standing around while cars go past and honk their horns and, anyway, there is simply so much ambient noise. This isn't going to work.

And that was when the traffic stopped.

Cars stopped in the middle of the road like neat matchrioshki - van, smaller van, cab, car - still and silent as far as the eye could see or sound could carry.

It was eerie.