07/07/2005
Well, I guess we all know the significance of that date.
Without going into detail as to how my tube was delayed that morning due to 'electrical issues', how I was lucky enough to get off one stop before my train exploded...
I got to work and of course everybody is told to stay put. At the end of the work day (not that much got done that day, too busy following developments on Sky News and calling home), we're faced with the trek home on foot (no public transport running).
Luckily enough one of the lawyers at the office lived down my way and had driven in to work (in Baker Street - seriously, who drives to work everyday in the middle of London?), and kindly offered to drive me home.
That drive home was the most surreal experience of my life. The streets of London were empty. Might as well have been tumbleweed blowing down the road... it had a very post-apocalyptic feel to it that afternoon, and I expect I'll never see London that empty ever again.
( Tiffany Aching 's bowl of oatmeal tried to stare her down and won, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 4:38, 3 replies)

unless
england get to the final of the euros and its scheduled for 5pm on a school night.
(magictorch, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 15:00, closed)

I was trying to get out of London that morning.
Got to Golder's Green about 20min later than I planned -- to discover the station closing as I arrived and everyone being ushered out. As I was "at the back" (now front, as everyone's turned round), I managed to grab a bus to Victoria to get a coach; there I noticed a lot of people milling around, and quite a lot of cancellations, but didn't think much of it. Got the coach out of Victoria...

... when I reached my destination, one of the first things I saw was a pub TV announcing the bombings. If I'd been on time to Golder's Green, I'd've been on the tube when shit went down. And I caught the last bus out of Victoria before a bus exploded and they shut those down too.

Shit.
(EvilTerran rearranged his letters on, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 11:19, closed)

You
watched it on Sky?
FFS.
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 18:51, closed)