On Jun 26, 7:24 pm, Edward Cowling London UK
wrote:

So I'm thinking, why am I paying £33.20 a week to put up with this crap,
and why people keep voting for Ken, the guy who promised to transform
the Tube !!


One thing that I very much like about living in London is that, if you
end up late for more or less any kind of appointment for more or less
any reason, you can say "sorry, the Tube was rubbish" and get
sympathetic nods and no grudges held (obviously with the exception of
a few special one-off events such as exams, court appearances,
weddings, for which you just need to head off an hour early).

It would be far worse to live somewhere like Japan, where turning up
late for work is a sacking offence unless you have the signed suicide
note of the train company's CEO for running his train five minutes
late. So three cheers for successive central and local governments for
accidentally and incompetently striking a blow against the tyranny of
the clock!

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John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org