Whilst drunk
I missed the last train from Wolverhampton back to Birmingham one Saturday night by mere seconds. Not a problem I thought, I'll get the bus. So I walked up to the bus station and hopped on the bus (79 I think) and it started off towards Birmingham.

I got to the outskirts of West Bromwich town centre when the bus driver announced that instead of going all the way into Birmingham (as on the front of his bus and the info at Wolverhampton bus station) he was terminating in West Brom.

West Bromwich was (and still probably is for all I know) not the kind of place you want to willingly ever go to. So being stranded there at midnight several miles from your actual destination is not a pleasant thought by any stretch of the imagination.

God knows what it was, possibly the inner student within me coming out, but I decided that I would take my life in my hands and WALK it to Birmingham from the centre of West Bromwich. I thought that as the Metro line ran from by the town centre through to Birmingham then I would loosely follow that and I'd be there in no time at all.

My plan of following the metro line was soon forgotten in my drink addled state, and I tried to walk in what I thought was a south easterly direction. I got so far and stopped. I eventually rung for a taxi and got home at 2am.

I have since found out that I did in fact almost walk in a complete circle.

No apologies for length - I covered 3 miles in 1 hour.
(Prawn, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 13:40, Reply)