Monday, 26 May 2008

Speaking Freely

"Hello this is Sam, I am from South Africa. I was on a Baker Loo Train there other day, it stopped at Charring Cross for no apparent reason then after about a minute the tunnel comes on and this man just mumbles something and their sort of eating cake and he had his hand in his mouth and it was he didn't want us to hear what he was saying anyway so we all sat there confused then about 5 minutes late after we'd sat on the train doing nothing the chariot comes on and he mumbles something else again it sounded like he had his head in his newspaper or something then about 5 minutes later someone makes an announcement on the on the platform again it's mumbled this time a guy with a heavy South West African accent again he sounds like his just awoken from a coma and he wasn't sure what time of day it was. Anyway we eventually got off, walk down the platform, tapped on the drivers window and said what has happened and he said oh the train just stuck here for the foreseeable future. He said why didn't you tell us and he said listen I did tell you I said no one not a blinking person understood a word he said and if you said listen mate that's I the way I talk alright suddenly he made himself intelligible he could do what he wanted to. With that row he slammed the door and went back into his crappy little compartment. What is wrong with transport for London don't you teach your staff to speak english. Have you teach them some communications skills? What would happen in an emergency? Would you just tell everyone the trains not working you better run for your lives. There you go this is Samatha I live in Kensil(?) Rise and I will just happily take any prize you can give me. Thank you, bye."

spoken through SpinVox

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