First New York, then London! We had a blackout last night for nearly...ooh...three hours. The tube trains were all stopped - some people were trapped underground for several hours in the dark. It was no big deal. Unless you are a tabloid newspaper for whom it seemed to be a dress rehearsal for the apocalypse. People had to take buses instead. Or walk! Imagine the inconvenience. Naturally in the report I read the "Dunkirk Spirit" was summoned in about the second paragraph. Let's try to get some perspective here, people.
I rather enjoyed it, actually. Normally reticent Londoners bonded in their shared incovenience and discomfort and opened up, talking garrulously and sharing their innermost feelings. Ha, no, of course they didn't. On my bus I would estimate that 70% of the passengers were totally absorbed in txting on their mobiles. The rest stared fixedly at a spot about 10 inches in front of them, as is standard London protocol.
Anyway, things like this just reinforce my determination to commute by bike whenever possible.
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