These aren't the stories your mother told you.

No, these are the other stories. Diner Numeric, written by Daniel Wilcox, narrated by Joanna Coulton.

Dina Numeric, a small downtown restaurant in London's Camden Town, had just received the news

that it had made the list again.

A sweaty-faced delivery boy ran through the back doors,

weaved through the steaming kitchen,

and darted up the stairwell to the cramped manager's office hidden away on the top floor.

"'You're kidding me!' Davina Patel.

The restaurant manager laughed with a grin as the boy handed the tablet over

and pointed at the headline.

London's top ten dining hotspots.

That makes it three years in a row.

The boy beamed, flattening his hair and hugging his mother.

I'm so proud of you.

Thanks, Dan. Who knew that the digital age would be the

time we take London by the balls and live the high life? Dan laughed, wiped a tear from the corner of his

gleeful eye and left his mother to peruse the article. He ran back downstairs, already wary that he had spent valuable minutes with his mother

instead of keeping up with the backlog of deliveries.

Top of the bill, but she still won't get the extra staff, he mumbled with a wry smile,

strapping his helmet, loading his bag, and heading out into the busy streets.

As he emerged from the empty alley, a lady in her 60s stepped out, forcing him to swerve sharply

and ring his bell.

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