literally another aussie in london

double decker violence

When I first got to London every bus I rode on I got on top.

Not out of some romantic bullshit tourist crap, I did that years ago.

Because there are always seats available up there.

I told this to one of my friends in London, and he said yeah, that’s because everyone gets stabbed upstairs.

Now this still hasn’t stopped me from sitting up there, because I’ll be damned if I am standing for 30 minutes.

If I have to take the odd knife, I can live with that, or not, as the case may be.

What I have been told from a few Londoners is that the double decker is dying.

With all the stabby stabby, and the fact Londoners are just not sitting up top anymore the double decker is being phased out for long super buses with rubber middles.

Since I have no emotional or cultural bond to them, I don’t feel sad.

I do however like that something as simple as a few knife crimes can change a cultural landmark of a city.

Most Americans know nothing about London, but they know about the buses.

People often say revolutions are not possible in this day and age.

But if a few kids with swiss army knives can make this sort of difference, there is nothing we can’t do.

I just now need to work out what crimes will make the government invest in a plan to get air conditioning into the tube.

September 17, 2008 Posted by Jrod | living in london | buses, knives, stab stab | 7 Comments