Todays rant!

I had to go to London this morning to meet some people in connection with a project I'm driving at work. In itself this is not a problem. The commuter train to London is OK - it's clean and not too uncofomfortable. A little on the warm side, but not too unbearable, and it arrives into London Waterloo.

I then had to catch a tube train to Aldgate. This involved two steps, both of which were a complete nightmare. Firstly, taking the tube from Waterloo to the Embankment. I couldn't squeeze onto the first two trains which came in because there was 3,000,000 people waiting for the same train. I managed to get on the third one, but I only had 2 square inches to myself as we were packed in like sardines. Fortunately this was for only one stop, and I could soon breathe out again.

The second part of the journey was from the Embankment to Aldgate on the Circle Line. Now I don't know if this is how it is supposed to happen, but the Circle Line shares platforms with the District Line. However, the first 5 trains were running round the District Line, and I had to wait for the 6th train to go the way I wanted! And when the damn thing arrived it was a mobile sardine sauna. Consequently I was sweating like a pig by the time I arrived at Aldgate for my meeting.

How can people do this everyday? What a horrible way to live, and there is no way that the extra £20,000 a year that you can earn for a London job is worth the hassle, expense, inconvenience, smell or sweat. Give me suburbia every day!