On train announcement:
"...and we apologise for the busy nature of today's service, this is in part due to today's Tube Strike."
How big is Zone 6? I ask as this announcement came on my morning train to Birmingham... from Doncaster. I always assumed that Zone 6 ended at the edge of the maps, but this announcement suggests I was very much mistaken. Zone 6 it seems is in fact endless extending from the Underground network to encompass the whole of the UK. All us non-London folk are actually mere capitol city suburbanites... I could have saved a fortune today with an Oyster card.
Two long-held personal irritations have been been re-awoken upon hearing this announcement. The first is the heightened national coverage of issues which affect or relate to only those in London. OK, the Underground are striking, but you've still got legs and buses right? Boris Johnson fell over in a river. And? Why should I care? The buffoon doesn't run my town. A strike on Northern Rail would affect as many folk in more cities, but would get nowhere near as more coverage.
The second is the more dangerous and more pathetic subsidiary of 'blame culture', and that's what I've termed 'tenuous-onus'; excusing one event by connecting it by the flimsiest of threads to a barely related more significant event. The train is pretty full compared to yesterday, Undergound trains are emptier than normal today, yeah, that'll be why. 'Can't come out tonight I'm broke, credit crunch innit.' Not every financial disappointment is connected with recession, some people are just shit with money.
And besides, if I was in actual fact on the Undergound today it will at least explain why the guards on these trains often have an industrial torch strapped to his waste band.
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