For the first time in 35 years.

Very strange.

Aren't ordinary people odd?

We are mostly very odd, yes. Especially when confronted by a mega star on the underground.

!Jesus it's Jonathan King!! Look!! Hide!! No don't be silly, and don't stare...don't point! Pretend you haven't noticed him. IT'S HIM!!!! (wild untamed hysteria)

JK2006 wrote:
For the first time in 35 years.

Very strange.

Aren't ordinary people odd?

were there any other British people on the train ?

Couldn't agree more. I went to London last summer a ex wanted to show me round the sights of the capital don't think London is great has people make it out to be.

Still see bird ladies they are old women with birds all around her and talks to them.

LOL I could not live without the underground !

were you recognised,JK?

It is much cleaner than it was 35 years ago when it was dirtier, smellier, noisier.

It seemed to run very smoothly and efficiently (but then I wasn't blown up by mad people).

I had to put my ticket in a slot to exit! We never used to have to do that. We were allowed to escape freely.

What are oysters doing underground? Is it something to do with the Walrus and the Carpenter?

I don't know if I was recognized - I was too busy gazing about like a child in a sweet shop.
Most people were foreign anyway, as on the streets of London.

So one has been on the underground at last !

You remind me of a very rich Southern lady who lives Uptown in New York. I was leaving a small party she had one night and she asked me where I was going..I said on the Underground. She asked me why and when I said to get home she said "how quaint..how long has that been happening ?"

The tube is the only way to get around London. But I get very claustrophibic on it.

Well Veritas you've rumbled me - I always travel on the subway in NYC and one day said to a friend "I'm constantly being recognized by English tourists on the subway in New York but never in London - I wonder why that is" and he answered "that's because you never travel on the underground in London you silly queen".

He was, of course, quite right.

My last experience of the underground was when my train was cancelled and we all had to transfer. Everyone was sitting in the carriage, as usual not talking to each other. They were looking around after the announcement, and so I said, "I think we have to change trains."

A woman looked me and said, "Oh, do we? I wasn;t sure if he'd said that or not."

Then a man chipped in, "I think he did say that."

So I decided I had better get up and leave as an example of what tto do in response to the announcement. I switched trains and they other followed. I wonder if they would still be sitting there if I hadn't made the first move.

Ordinary people?