'You're such an A&*# hole!' the woman next to me purred...for a minute I was all ears. Seriously, I sprinted all the way from home to catch the train and when I did manage to wriggle into the already crowded compartment, I found my nose pressed against the glass door. I was trying hard to figure out how I was going to avert the inevitable situation of me being washed off into the plat form in the next stop and then I hear this. Wow...showtime! Yeah I know I could be crassy and mean at times, but then it's not every day an English woman uses such words against a stranger! Apparently the 'gentleman' had thumped her face in his effort to get out and the lady felt the apology he mumbled was not enough or may be no apology would have been enough...I didn't know who was at fault but both parties argued on, with the lady dishing out one 'ponmozhi' after another!
My station arrived and I jumped out and walked to get the next underground train. On my way to the underground station it's become quite a habit of mine to stop to pick one of those free news papers. Awaited my turn, pulled one and when I was about to leave managed to hear another elderly woman standing behind me, say to another girl who in all haste tried to snatch up the paper ahead of her, in a voice that would have broken sheets of glass 'Await your turn!'.
In the underground train, the guy who boarded the train with me had a song humming quite audibly on his mobile and was fishing for something in his bag (ear phones perhaps)...he didn't bother to reduce the volume or switch it off until he settled in his seat at the end of the carriage...'would you mind turning that off??'...this was from a much irritated man...
Whoa...London was sure not at it's well mannered best today :D
Pre match jitters perhaps???

P.S: the events happened on 29th jun, eve of England's qtrfinal encounter in FIFA'06...I just posted this one too late

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