taking the train-

easily the part i hate the most about public transport.

Long winding bus rides, (which i love), the occasional taxi hop-ons (which i can scarcely afford)

and now there's the stupid metro which i have to take everyday with too little space, too many inconsiderate people, and rows of plasticy-icky seats. i know that's being a bit uncivil, but plastic seats? More durable, undeniably, but also oh-so-icky cold/shiny.

and interchanges-

or underpasses/whatever you call them.

I really dislike the long stretch that you have to take an escalator up to, walk through, take stairs/escalators down to change from some line to another line. There's no problem with things really- i have nothing against walking for long periods of time;

i just really dislike how people can't seem to make up their mind?

at first they want to go this way- then suddenly they decide not and cut right in front of you,

or worse still, just shove you aside. The worst of course are those who stand on the right side of the escalator and do not move.

Perhaps they have some difficulty differentiating left from right,

or they can't understand simple english?

l-e-f-t is different from r-i-g-h-t.

once, sickened by the huge crowd swelling in from of the escalator, i imagined in my mind the escalator going faster- (after all if the speed is faster, more people can reach the top faster, and the crowd would clear faster)

loads of (presumably old) people started flying off the escalator (since old people don't take well to escalators, my aunt was one such example) and i almost laughed out loud at the thought.

then of course i felt my conscience (yes i have one) and guiltily flung away the thought.

what i'd really like is for some machine/escalator that flings away nasty/fidgety/fickle people so all the other commuters who are just minding their own business can go wherever they want to go.

maybe riding public transport is a sport that i will eventually be able to master

in good time.

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i've not had such conflicting feelings for a long time-

i guess people don't really like to feel cognitive dissonance?

myself included.

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why am i always 1 step too late?

The xx were here in february but i hadn't even heard of them (yet).

Well maybe i had- vaguely i remember downloading an album of tracks from UO.com's music links (they have 25 songs from indie artists every week that you can download to list for free) and one of the xx's songs was included, only i can't really remember what/which and i wasn't impressed with it (to say the least)

i guess sometimes you really change?

Maybe i didn't like somethings in the past, but i do now?

and maybe i didn't think some things were possible, or cool,

but i think they are possible, they are cool, now?