things i learnt in transit
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so here i am in London at the London Heathrow airport. the last time i flew through here, i had the most atrocious experience ever. i had 3 hours to catch my connection and spent more than 2 of of those 3 hours in the security line. in that respect the security this time around was a breeze. there was no one ahead of me and i went right through. on the flip side, i have 12 hours to kill at the airport here. for the last 6 hours or so i’ve been seated here in front of the HMV (a music) store and gone from taking naps to observing the people around me, and getting some work done.
so what have a learn from all this?
1. the police here love to browse the latest CD’s at the music store. every hour or so two police officers passing by will pop in and spend about 15 minutes or so browsing though the shelves and then leave without purchasing anything. they also like checking out the latest gadgets at Dixons (an electronics store) right next door.
2. Michael Jackson is very much alive in this part of the world. i’ve listened to the store play a marathon of his hits at least 3 times over with a speckling of some rap songs here and there. took me down memory lane as well. you do not realize just how many songs jackson has. more so, how many of them are number one hits. enough hits to play for hours it seems. quite an accomplishment for any artist.
3. it’s quite common to see 5 year old girls wearing purple velvet dresses with fancy pea coats walking around with their mums who are equally peacocked out themselves.
4. the word “Gentleman” is still pretty much part of the English vocabulary and is very much used in everyday chatter here. eg: talking on the walkie talkie “Can you hold the gate a few more minutes? I just passed another gentleman heading over to catch his flight” (Said with a thick british accent)
5. the Audi a8 is one sexy beast of a car.
6. there are as many airport staff talking in Hindi as there as talking in English.
7. i’ve hardly seen any obese people the whole time i’ve been here.
8. kids wearing those jeans that look like they are going to fall off at any moment actually look fitted for some reason. (they still look like they are going to fall off at any moment)
9. the older gents are much more adventurous with their mustaches. i saw some that were just plain CRAZY…
10. i have yet to see an overweight air hostess walk pass me.
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Ha ha ha…
Well written. Surprised about you not seeing obese people as they are dime a dozen in London. Maybe you have gone on to prove a hypothesis that obese Londoners don’t fly!