Flowers....Bah!

Commuting on London Underground every day is soul-destroying enough, but this week, a whole new set of obstacles and annoyances have descended to plague those of us who commute through Chelsea.

Yes, it's the Flower Show. Which means that for the rest of the week, as it was this evening, my journey home will be blighted by sharing platforms and trains with hordes of braying nobs, tossers with folding chairs, and dodderers in pac-a-macs.

As you can probably tell, I'm thrilled beyond words by this development.

Posted on May 25, 2004 11:10 PM

it could be worse you could have to cycle down the kings road / sloane st while the various "nobs, tossers with folding chairs, and dodderers in pac-a-macs" try and flag a taxi by leaping out from the pavement as soon as they see one no matter how far away it is and if the light is on or not...

although amusingly last night i did see 2 women start to argue over the flagging of a taxi when one basically walked slightly further up the road and flagged the first taxi to come along and then looked at the other woman and said, "oh sorry i didn't realise you were waiting for a taxi"....

Posted by dave on May 26, 2004 09:54 AM

I saw something similar last night, highly entertaining watching a clearly clueless person trying to get a taxi and failing for utterly ages. Of course, I was waiting for a bus, so I couldn't really be too smug ;-)

Posted by Mike on May 26, 2004 10:45 AM

I guess that I would have been one of the nobs. It is nice to be classified ;)

Posted by Stairs on May 29, 2004 11:57 PM

But you weren't actually braying were you????

Posted by Jon on May 30, 2004 07:30 AM

Good point - certainly more decorous than braying.
I was slightly amused by some of the haughty nothings swanning about the place in their finery; suggest you never get in the way of a high-end house madame while she tries to take a picture. If looks could kill... [shudder].

Posted by Stairs on May 30, 2004 12:08 PM

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