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March 11, 2003
Tuesday
 
 
Voices in my head
Johnathan Pearce (London)  Humour • Transport • UK affairs

Struggling into the office via the Tube (London's subway system) this morning, I distinctly thought I heard the following announcement over the public address system. I may have been hallucinating, but I am not sure:

Ladies, gentlemen, buskers and beggars, London Transport regrets to announce that in addition to the Central Line being closed until Hell freezes over while we check to see if the nuts and bolts have been screwed in correctly, the Piccadilly Line has been suspended. So I suggest you suckers get outside and into the fresh air for a bracing walk. Let's face it, transporting you people is more than our jobs are worth

As I say, I may have been imagining things.

Comments

I doubt it. This site has a whole bunch of non-standard Underground announcements.

And this seems to definitely be a Tube thing. You really get this thing on the mainline railways. Why, I have no idea.


Posted by Patrick Crozier at March 12, 2003 02:23 AM