February 14, 2026

Jessye Romeo has about three different character names in this entertaining short feature. Initially, she’s just “Uloaku” working behind the counter in a quiet petrol station. When a man comes in and starts behaving a bit suspiciously, she hits the panic button but then discovers that he (Steve Oram) is a harmless gent who (over)pays for his goods in slightly blue-tinged fifty pound notes! When another customer arrives, he heads to the bathroom a… read the rest.

Jessye Romeo has about three different character names in this entertaining short feature. Initially, she’s just “Uloaku” working behind the counter in a quiet petrol station. When a man comes in and starts behaving a bit suspiciously, she hits the panic button but then discovers that he (Steve Oram) is a harmless gent who (over)pays for his goods in slightly blue-tinged fifty pound notes! When another customer arrives, he heads to the bathroom and the rest of her ten minutes is spent juggling between this enigmatic gent, a stroppy woman and a couple of police officers who arrived to check she wasn’t being robbed. Luckily she’s quite a shrewd lass and so, like us, is quickly in on the joke and obviously quite prepared to play along with what I thought was a very fitting conclusion. Romeo is on good form here, as much with her facial expressions as with her dialogue and unlike the cheap disposable razor he buys, I thought this worked well.

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