Wednesday, February 16, 2005

"Please keep all your personal belongings with you at all times"

No. Among my personal belongings are:

A bass amp, weighing around 25kg
2 bass guitars, one electric guitar and one acoustic guitar
A television
A blender
A chest of drawers
An uplighter
Enough cheap, mediocre clothing to fill two large suitcases
A computer and monitor
4 four-way mains extension leads
5 houseplants
Around 30kg of books
Around 15kg of CDs
A box full of bank statements and other 'important documents' weighing in at around 10kg

All in all, my personal belongings would fill around half a Victoria Line tube carriage. Keeping them all with me would cause a major delay, particularly while changing trains.

With that in mind, I have also chosen to ignore the other announcements on the Victoria line, among them the invitation to "Mind the doors" (the doors can look after themselves), and to "Please allow passengers off the train first" (late at night it can take a long time to find a carriage with someone getting off it, so that I can get on again). I also now allow myself to ride escalators without carrying a dog.

2 comments:

LeperColony said...

Five houseplants seems a little excessive. Then again, I've never much cared for vegitation, what with the allergies and all.

Ben said...

Yey! I'm a blogger.

great post by-the-way.

what do we do now, oh blog meister?