For everything else...
Magazine: £1.50
Smoothie: £3.49
Running to an underground station, getting stuck behind an OAP at the top of the escalator, slowing you down by about 30 seconds, arriving at the platform just as a train is shutting its doors, waiting 4 minutes for the next one, getting off at a connecting station, running to the next platform just as that train is pulling away, waiting for another 3 minutes, getting that tube train to a mainline station, sprinting up the stairs (faster than those running up the escalator, as ever, I proudly add), finally arriving on the platform at 15:48:02, seeing the 15:48 you wanted to catch slowly gliding out of the station, and realising that the next one you can get on your ticket is 3 hours later, writing a long detailed diary entry about it all in the web browser on your mobile phone, only to discover that it has disconnected while you were typing, it has forgotten what you wrote, that you have to type it all in again, and when you're half way through the second attempt, your battery runs out: Priceless.
As it happened, I rather enjoyed whiling away the hours over my banana and raspberry smoothie; made a nice change to be somewhere and powerless to do anything other than relax. Certainly a good excuse - will have to miss my train more often ;)
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What?! A small bottle of smoothie cost you £3.49?!! You can buy a massive bottle for £1.99 in Sainsbury, luck out!
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That's one expensive smoothie... Anyway, you should plan your day better, so you don't miss your train just because you got delayed for a few minutes. Silly.
Anyway, the problem with the mobile phone, I know far too well. It doesn't even seem there's a function to fill out a text field according to something you've written in another program or anything. Quite silly.
Well, it was a very large smoothie - lasted me over 2 hours! I was expecting to get the later train, but when I saw the time I thought I could make the early one... and I could have, if it hadn't been for those meddling --kids-- OAPS...
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