One day he was called to a tatty house in the middle of the province.
KGB's old headquarters, which is mainly filled with tatty stalls selling products aimed at grown-ups.
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On the streets of Tallinn, large, slick yes posters outnumbered small and tatty no ones by a hundred to one.
Would the son of a long marcher, the scourge of Nixon and Thatcher, be involved in such a tatty enterprise?
They are part of the grand march of British culture, of tatty fashions, improbable art, ear-damaging pop music, distrust of foreigners and politically-incorrect opinions.
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Daiei and other domestic chains such as Seiyu and Ito-Yokado are all struggling to cope with colossal debts and imprudent diversification, and their underfunded outlets are getting tatty.
So if newspapers and tatty paperbacks can create new social and political units, for which people toil and die, perhaps the latest forms of communication can do likewise.
When his scarlet uniform became a bit tatty he asked Dennis Healey, the chancellor of the exchequer in the then Labour government, if it would pay for a replacement.
In the shoe department, a tween in a tutu-looking confection is being helped by her mother, who is standing with one foot in a bright pink wellie, the other in a tatty Converse.
What do you make of householders turned austere pilgrims who live in tatty canvas tents on a flood plain of a river braving regular baths in freezing water, biting cold, smoky skies and ear-splitting din for more than a month?
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On February 29th, two days before parliamentary elections in Iran, I joined a few dozen foreign correspondents along with official handlers in the parking lot of the Laleh, a formerly five-star Tehran hotel with tatty rooms, an ornate lobby, and a surfeit of eyes.
Yet his anger at what he sees as the cluelessness of the governing class hasn't dampened his zest for life, or his sense of wonder at such transformations as the tatty dog track of his youth giving way to a resplendent Olympic stadium.
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Indeed, it was the calibre of its doctors that persuaded Mr Romero to opt for the tatty Calixto Garcia hospital rather than the more comfortable Hermanos Ameijeiras Havana's flagship hospital, but one whose staff, many suspect, are likelier to owe their jobs to excellent connections than to excellence in medicine.
Many roads are bumpy, many buildings tatty (except in the lovely old bit of the capital, Tallinn), and compared with their Nordic peers (as they like to call them) Estonians still fall short in terms of honesty, efficiency, politeness, trust, flexibility and openness, though they are stellar when set beside the Russians.
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