Blog Slackness and a Return to Waterloo Please

Incidentally, apologies for the lack of posts recently. I have no idea what has been taking up so much of my time when I do actually have things I want to write about but, hey ho. Perhaps the onset of colder weather will improve things. I guess I should be grateful that work ties me to a keyboard less than it used to...

Also, I was standing in the station this morning when a well dressed/well spoken chap in front of me in the queue asked for a return to London Waterloo, with the Underground, coming back tomorrow. "Whereabouts in London on the Underground?" asked the ticket issuer. "Oh... central," the guy said, obviously a little irritated that he couldn't just have what he asked for - and I kind of knew where he was coming from - it seemed a reasonable request. The ticket guy then went into something about zones and the other guy said to leave the Underground stuff off - he'd just have a return to Waterloo.

"That's £73.00 please."

The bloke did a such a classic "How much?!!?" I had to stifle my snigger with a cough.