Foals - Olympic Airways

It's 2008 and I'm living in London with my then girlfriend. Sometime in maybe October, I guess, she moved back to Lisbon to go work with a famous architect, and I remained in London. Around that same time I started going to the gym at the YMCA. My routine was fairly simple, I'd do some biking and then go for a run, and I'd top it all off with some laps at the pool. Some days I'd do some strength training as well, but not very often because that bored me easily.
The treadmills were located in one of the mid levels of the gym - it was a multi-tiered building - and there were a number of rows of them, all of them facing some TVs at the far end of the room.
It's not a question of superstition or anything, but I do tend to use the same equipment most every time I go for a run at the gym. Went for a run, I should say. And it just so happened that the treadmill I chose to run on was located a bit far from the TVs themselves. Sure, I could kind of see what was happening on the screen, but not with great detail, and I certainly couldn't tell the name of whoever was playing.

One day I was running and after a Black Eyed Peas video, some video came in. No idea who they were, though they certainly looked like some indie band. Skinny kids, befringed hair framing their lanky bodies, pasty complexion - to be fair they did look like 99% of any other indie band. But the video caught my eye. I had no idea what the story was, there was just a bunch of guys seemingly playing with garbage, throwing rubbish at each other, breaking stuff, and a guy was prominently featured on the video - he was covered with oil or muck or what have you.
I was so intrigued by the video, but in a few minutes it was gone, replaced by some idiocy.
Having no idea who those people were, having no idea what the song even sounded like, I filed it somewhere in a deep recess of my mind.

So a few years later - probably around 2013 - I found out what the video actually was. And you know, I felt doubly stupid because a) it was the video to a song that has been on my playlists since 2008, a song I've listened to hundreds and hundreds of times and b) it's quite likely my favourite song by Foals.
It's a song that I, in all likelyhood, had actually listened to on the very day while exercising - I just never knew that the video I was watching was the video to it.
Because, and if I'm honest, I've long lost the necessary patience to watch music videos. I'm not saying they're without merit - they're not - it's just something that I don't do that often. Most times I'll play a video, and just listen to the song while doing something else altogether. True, I've seen some really good videos in my time, but it's just not been my preferred medium for a long, long time.