Saturday, November 8, 2008

Life in London 2 :

14 to run :

this is my experience of traveling in London between Holborn and Goodge Street between 3 – 6 PM ::::
An account of how many people had to marathon with me within 3 hours, for me to achieve my target!!!

I set off from LSE to meet some one at Hill martin road at 3 PM : My friend from class dropped me to the tube station (1)
The station staff at the tube station guided me to the tube (2),
I got off at Caledonian Road and again the station staff assisted me to the bus stop near by (3),
The bus driver told me where to get off (4),
I got off and requested for help to cross the street (5),
Walked down and at the next bus stop again asked for assistance to reach house number 404 (6),
Then my friend there dropped me back to the bus stop (7),
Again, the bus driver told me when to get off (8),
A lady helped me to cross the street (9),
I then walked down the street, asked for help to reach the super bazaar (10),
Asked for assistance at the shop (11),
He dropped me outside then I walked to the tube, met a man who guided me to the tube (12),
The tube staff assisted me to the tube (13),
Reached Goodge Street station staff helped me out (14),

Just thought
All these people gave me 2 to 4 minutes of their precious time in the day, without which achieving my target would have been difficult : at the same time I only dream is, if the city was more friendly where I could walk around with freedom life would have been much easier???

This was the first time I encountered 14 people within 3 hours for support. Without which I guess this journey would have been completed in 9 hours or I would have ended in hospital.

Cheers

Guru Bhai

1 comment:

Unknown said...

praveen, there are probably as many people helping each of us except that we don't notice. you've inspired me to follow a similar exercise of counting all those who faciliate my everday journey. i'll get back to you...keep smiling. joseph