You have watched telephone line repairs being carried out, when you happened upon a technician working on one of those thingys in the street (is it called a 'Node'? All the lines are connected to a round thingy, that is covered with a lockable bell-shaped cover)
Racking my brain trying to remember if that in fact happened many years ago. I'd (not) like to say true. That being a case of forgetting to bring my wallet with me before I lived in NYC. I'll reply with an ambiguous #shrug.
You stopped reading books from a favorite author because you found that he/she revealed in the press that he/she holds some unsavory/questionable political beliefs.