Monday, January 19, 2009

Surreal train life on a Monday night

  1. The woman crying into her mobile phone on the platform at London Bridge. Still talking fairly coherently, but obviously upset. All she seemed able to say was that she was on a train to Charing Cross. Then she gets onto the train, which is busy and standing room only full of commuters on their way home. And the conversation and and the tears continue, and the whole carriage just carry on doing their train stuff, acting like this drama wasn't being acted out 2 feet away from us. All studiously avoiding actually looking at her however...
  2. The two men on the train who realise they know each other and are sat diagonally opposite each other. Man One is reading, and obviously wants to carry on reading, but there's a few minutes of forced conversation before with a sense of relief Man Two pulls out a book and they can stop. But they both live in Surbiton so then they have to continue the awkward conversation along the platform and all the way out.
  3. Girls talking to each other going up the stairs at Surbiton. Girl One says to Girl Two that Girl Three is at a pubt at London Bridge station. To which Girl Two responds 'Oh wicked. I'm so jealous'. Now, never in a million years can I understand why you would be jealous of someone being at London Bridge in a pub...
Its a strange world in London sometimes...

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