Please mind the gap

So I was originally going to write a post about how I get annoyed at morons who stand on the wrong side of the escalators. The ones, who stand there, look around and see a queue standing behind them, and in front of them the escaltor is empty. It surprises me how the little neurons in their heads don't fire up, and give a response of "I'm a total jack ass clearly these people are in a rush, they are Londoners of course, I'd better be useful and move the fuck over!". Now everyone behind him is thinking why is he not moving the fuck over!

I experience this all the time, and I can't imagine England is the only country that has escalators on the underground. I know for a fact they have escaltors on at least the Montreal metro. Now a tourist can't plead pig ignorance, because this same simple norm is repeated in Montreal too, and therfore I've decided is repeated the world over. Well we Englishmen are known to be able to create a line even when a line isn't needed, so in some more barbaric countries this act of courtesy may not extend there... I'll say the USA purely because it's a pretty screwed up place anyways. It's simple, stand on the right if you want to pretend you aren't a scummy Londoner who rushes everywhere, and run/walk on the left if you think your time is too precious to have to wait a whole minute for a tube.

So yesturday I went to meet some friends, and I felt like I wanted to shoot myself. Not because my friends are that soul killing, no the tube was a nightmare. London has got to be one of the most depressing places on earth during rush hour. Using the tube during this frenzy has got to be one of the worst ways I spend my time. What annoys me is that your packed in so tightly, yet some blonde haired bitch seems to think this is the best place to read a book. And obviously she can't have the book shooved in her face, so of course she extends her arm to a distance that suits her comfortably, while all the people around her would rather shoove the book up her. Seriously, the train is massively packed, and they want to read?? It's find if your sitting down, but not when you are standing up and 20 people are within your personal space, one of them being me.

Also, all the tube lines have their various colours. So why is the Central Line (Aka the red one on a tube map), replacing the red seats with blue ones???