Its all in the timing

When I was enrolling in a course this morning, I asked the man how to get to the campus. He said it was about 8 minutes from the tube station.

It made me realise how rushed everyone in London is. Obviously this is nothing new as people love to say "oh London, its so hectic, everyone's is so rude and ALWAYS in a rush". But so rushed we are that when asked how far something is, we rarely say a 10 minute walk or a 5 minute walk but find it more favourable to say an 8 minute walk or a 3 minute walk. 

In most other instances we might round up to the nearest 5 or 10, but not when it comes to one's proximity to public transport. When I lived with my parents I would think nothing of walking 20 minutes into town, but I wouldn't dream of doing that in London. Because conversely if something is father away than we would like in London and we would prefer to get a bus but know its a bit lazy we exaggerate the time, so a 20 minute walk becomes half an hour. 

Gordon Brown

I didn't see Gordon Brown on a train, but I did listen to a conversation about him...



Two middle aged women argued about David Miliband and then mused perhaps Alan Johnson might be the person to show the public that the government 'cared'.

One of them suggested Gordon Brown "Might just need to swallow his jaw!". How this would help , or indeed how he would acheive this without dying I don't know . They talked about his family problems but then decided his family problems were nothing in comparison to Sarah Palin's calling her children "Trig" and "Track" as she does.

"I would like a coalition government featuring Vince Cable" The first woman said. Her bespectled friend responded.
"I mean they used to work as a partnership Blair and Brown and they must have hated it but it worked...Like Lennon and McCartney together they were phenomenal, apart it all goes wrong. I mean look at McCartney...The Mull of Kintyre...you just can't explain something like that away."



"Is that a simile or a metaphor?" Asked her friend.



"I'm not sure" she replied.



Then they were silent.