RadioKate@ShanManOnline - No - I don't have AB seasons yet - any good?
@PeskyPeople - You wanted a rough transcript.. well I personally *hate* transcribing (and listening back to the sound of my own voice), but here's the gist:
Went out for dinner, had a nice meal with a nice friend.
Tried to get home, using the Victoria Line. Not only was it experiencing delays due to signal failure (again) but someone had been sick all over the platform.
Pressed info button on station to report vomit - asked what was wrong with Vic Line - was told signal failure. Asked exasperatedly - "does it ever work" and the tube worker replied "No, not really, no". Great.
Needed the loo. No loo in station. Am told to try McDonald's McLoo by another tube worker, who when I ask about the Victoria Line comments on the new trains: "I hate them, they're really hot and they always breakdown".
Honest yes. Good enough? No.
McLoos all blocked and out of action.
Go to public loo - am yelled at by attendent who's sort of tied the gate shut - "GO!" Me - "Excuse please, I'd really like to..." Her: AWAY! There is no water - GO AWAY"
Nice hotel to the resuce. Button falls of jacket. Am convinced everything is broken.
Get back to tube, still wait a while for a train which then stops in tunnels and takes more than twice as long as it should to get me home.
I play angry birds and calm down a little.
My luck changes - the bus I need (to stop me having to walk in the dark alone) - is just pulling in. If I run I can catch it.
It doesn't stop. It's the main station. It doesn't stop.
Okay - I must have been too slow. But wait - there's a nice gent with a violin legging it towards the next stop - (if you run fast enough you can beat the bus there) - so there *was* someone waiting for that bus.
I run, I catch the bus, I ask the driver why he didnt stop. He said he didn't see anyone (bad lighting at bus station). I complain that we will never cope with the Olympics if getting home on a quiet Wednesday afternoon is such a nightmare. I ask Boris to fix it, acknowledging he probably won't listen, but statin that he should.
All of the above in a highly irritated, slightly flustered (from running for bus) type voice. Much sarcasm and questioning of why the heck they spent so long messing with the Victoria Line only to make it worse.
Hope that helps. :)
Kate
ShanManOnlineThis was awesome!
P.S. I love Angry Birds too! Do you have AB Seasons?
MontagfireThe stars, shining, hanging high over our heads,
why are they crying?
The stones on our backs nestling between the cracks
but for how long?
Tide pulls the warm blood, beating.
The sea tugs the anchors, rusting
Hurricanes can't blow me down.
Cocooned from winds, long enough to emerge,
strong and true again.
A new directiomn, magenetised I chase the north.
South pulls harder.
Tracking prints in new snow hunting.
Lost in woods, dangerous, daunting.
Hurricanes can't blow me down.
Eyes fail, head frail, knocking at the door of faith
with no answer.
Stand tall, stone wall hurricanes cannot blow me down
anymore.
