Since the weekend’s fun and frolics, and of course Monday’s buoyant update where lots of jolly fun was had, one could almost expect another update filled with jolly and happiness with various other words that mean the same thing, but as this is a post on Ooh Sometimes and not the Guardian, forgive me but looking up words on a thesaurus seems too much effort.

However, once again London is proving itself with the “Love, Hate” relationship that all people down here seem destined to go through each day, not so much with issues such as crime etc, but more a state of some people down in the dirty city.

On Monday, on the way to work using the tube system, there were severe delays. The reason being that someone had either committed suicide or decided to have an costly accident on the central line. Either way, that person is no longer with the living, instead preferring the company of Gandhi, Elvis and Lord Lucan.

As an outsider, just the fact that this had happened was quite a shock, as it’s not something you expect to see every day, but what was more confounding, was the reaction of the other commuters.
Half of them, didn’t seem to care and were off in their own little world of unicorns and rainbows, while all the while still managing to look miserable, and the other half standing on the platform at the time, seemed to be overly annoyed that their journey was delayed. “How dare that person stop tube trains at rush hour, bastard, we hope he got what’s coming to him….”

This was, shall we say, a different reaction to that I would expect after the staff announced that over the speakers and then proceeded to have the message repeating every few minutes.

But, as it turns out after asking around about if this was normal, feedback seems to suggest that this is a regular feature of travel in London as people seem to get bored / upset / news that their cat is alive and well and decide to see if high voltage electricity does indeed leave you on the shade of “not alive.”

Not exactly something to tell people down the pub, but nevertheless it’s worthy of a mention and only goes further to give a more balanced view of life down in London.