there is no excuse
for stinking!

people who don't live in london come here occasionally and see a network of transport and think bitterly, what are they whinging about, i only get one bus an hour.

but if you live here and pay through the nose to use it, and it's every minute of every journey that goes wrong, it is enough to make you want to quit!

and it attracts nutters, although not even i can blame TFL for that. the other night, on an empty bus, this enormous 300lb black dude came and squeezed himself right onto the seat next to me. great. i was the only person on the top deck. why had he sat right next to me? then he fumbled around in his pocket. his hand was in there so long and was moving so frenetically that i was getting really disturbed, when he pulled out....

a mars bar.

then he sat and talked to it for about 15 minutes, holding it squeezed in his great paw of a fist.

then he unclenched his fist. and started swearing at it. for melting on him.

at this point i scrambled inelegantly over him/the back of the seat and got off 3 stops too early.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Jul 2008, 10:56, Reply)