The IRA were grate!1!!
I started my career in London (By "Career" I mean "Jesus, why didn't I work harder at school and get a decent job? I'm such a fucking idiot, Accounts?..really?..me?..I wanted a fucking job that actually meant something to someone..Bollocks")

I decided to start working in London at the very height of the IRA bombings. GOOD PLAN. I'm sure plenty of B3tans remember those halcyon days of yore...If you were going to get bombed, it was going to be in a bin or an attended bag; not strapped to some poor bugger who thought that heaven awaited just around the corner (after he'd wiped out a bunch of innocent people just trying to get to work)

Anyway, I missed my train, which was via London Bridge one morning. I can't remember exactly why, but I remember that I felt that horrible sinking feeling as I realised I was going to have to change trains at Lewisham. The dreaded clatter down a set of steps in high heels (jump..clack..jump..clackety clack) followed by the interminable wait and then a slow ride into London with my face in an armpit. I decided to jump on the next train into Victoria.

I missed the London Bridge bomb by moments.

I spent 4 hours on a train outside Lewisham. It was pretty shit to be honest, this was before mobile phones and we all just sat and looked at each other. Eventually I cracked, turned off my walkman (the batteries went, if I'm honest) and looked pleadingly at the woman opposite me..."Bloody Hell" I said "What do you think has happened?"

"Train run out of petrol innit?"

Excellent.
( my_cat_has_no_shoes meh meh meh MEH MEH, Fri 30 May 2008, 22:39, 1 reply)

The IRA were great, wernt they?
If I recall it was much harder for the goverment to advocate the elimination of civil liberties when the terrorists were white. good times.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Sat 31 May 2008, 10:49, closed)