Monkeying around

Text MSG: Advert - can you play a business commuter?
I'm never thrilled to be asked to do  adverts. It's very rushed and there's a flat rate of pay for the day.
However, work had been short so I agreed to take part.
We met inside a pub where we all sat down and started chatting to each other.  There was no breakfast and neither was there going to be any lunch but we would get an envelope with some cash in it for lunch.
We were to  film on Marylebone Station at 9am with either suitcases or lap top cases or anything else that may look business like such as umbrellas, newspapers, brief cases etc. Having met up with some people I'd worked with on previous productions I thought this would be a brilliant day catching up with news and sitting around drinking tea....not a chance!
We were soon called to stand on the platform. There was nowhere to sit at all and eventually people began to sit on the floor. People were called forward by the half dozen and were told to walk up and down the train platform with various people being told to board the train. One couple were told to kiss and cuddle up and I later found out that they had been seen doing this on a previous occasion  even though they were married to other people!
Sandwiches arrived - thank goodness for that - and passed us by for the crew. Nobody asked us if we were thirsty, hungry or anything else and it quickly became clear that nobody cared either. Even more annoying was when the sandwiches were put in to a bin because the crew had eaten their fill and didn't want anymore. Several people were outraged and asked the person filling the black bag why we couldn't have the sandwiches.
"Just doing what I've been told." came the reply.
Several of us got together and watched out for each other as we went over the barriers to buy something to eat and to drink. We hadn't been told that there was no break for lunch so it did feel very awkward and the person who was supposed to be looking after us (and couldn't care less about us) had disappeared.
Still, not to be deterred, lunch was found and drinks bought with the money given to us in the envelope when we first arrived. The rest of the day carried on with just a few people waling up and down and others, including me being filmed going through the ticket barrier about twenty times.
Of course, nobody was recognisable in the end as we were all blurred out except for that puppet....!