Ah the good old tube strike is back eh?  Jolly good.  I don’t know why you need to worry about having a tube strike when they close the stations for the dumbest of reasons really.  Take Monday for example, I was in London with my other half shopping for the day (my feet are still swollen today).  We spent all day wandering around the Covent Garden, Oxford Street area. 

Once we’d decided that we’d had enough and weren’t likely to be turned into Cattle whilst trying to board a train, we headed back to Tottenham Court road to board the train, whilst strolling back we spotted lots of Community Policing staff standing around, the other half commented “um, there seems to be a lot of the LAPD hanging around” (my other half, he’s the funny one y’see), I didn’t think much of it, bit stupid really as they were standing around outside the station.  Get all the way over there and was told “stations closed”. Oh ok then.  I mumbled something about thinking someone had chucked themselves in front of a train or another suspect package, but it wasn’t until about an hour later when we finally got on the tube that we found out that “defective escalators” had closed the station.  ooooh, that’s a good one, so someone forgot to put 50p in the electric meter and the things had stopped working had they? 

Oh how I love London, why do the stations look like they’ve come out of a third world country? Where does all the money go that people pay to use the service?  It’s 2004, don’t we think that we should have stations that are a little more modern? You know, clean ones?!? Ones that run on time and don’t make us feel as though we’re being transported to some kind of slaughter house.  One feels that this may be a little bit too much to ask.

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