"Jack Taylor" wrote in message
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Neillw001 wrote:

I encountered the smae situation at TCR on a Saturday a few weeks
back, except that the area was a bit less crowded. I think it is down
to a large proportion of people being idiots when moving around in
places such as underground station.

I think that you could have stopped at 'when moving around'! ;-)

It's the same everywhere. People, most often of the female persuasion,
have a habit of just stopping for no apparent reason, in the middle of a
swathe of flowing pedestrians. For some reason, a quick glance over the
shoulder before doing so seems to be too much like hard work.

I don't know if it's mainly the ladies who wander around aimlessly - I've
definitely seen guys doing it too. The best is the slow meander across a
crowded tunnel, causing everyone to either trip over the individual in
question, get pushed forward, walking into each other or somehow predict
their movements and perform a bullet-time leap over them.

A couple of years ago, in the midst of a fairly swiftly moving crowd of
pedestrians, the woman in front of me stopped abruptly and bent down (for
what I have no idea). I tried desperately to stop in time and ended up
very nearly making contact with her voluptuous bottom, leaning over her
and very close to falling on top of her. She was utterly oblivious
throughout, despite some Anglo-Saxon expletives being aimed in her
direction.

The amount of insanity on the underground is startling. I swear some people
think it's their living room or something, like they're shuffling around
trying to find the remote with a cup of tea in their hand, not walking
through a crowded station at rush-hour. Barriers and summary executions for
transgressors would speed things along nicely, but then that's just me :-P

dave