Stupid London is back
Hey, aren’t people in cities recently affected by acts of terrorism supposed to be super-nice to each other in the following days? Based on the interactions I witnessed on the way in to work, London appears to have skipped that.
Outside of the immediate areas effected, the only effect seems to have been security alerts and some travel disruption – i.e. London as usual. The only evidence that remains are the newspaper front pages. And for those who tuned into the saturation TV news yesterday, and those without injured friends and relatives these events may already seem distant, as if they happened in another time or city.
I was on the tube towards King’s Cross just before 9 yesterday. When they stopped the train at an earlier station and advised people to use buses or
other routes, I left the station thinking that nothing out of the ordinary was happening. I phoned the office (the cell phone network was still clear at this point) and told them what was up.
The continuing problems at King’s Cross this morning meant I made another call at the about the same time. The words were roughly the same, only the inflections had changed.
“There’s disruption on the tube this morning, I’ll be late in.”
(sarcastic tone) “Oh, has something happened?”
(sarcastic tone) “‘Power surge’.”
