In message , Paul Corfield
writes
Trying to persuade some of my LU colleagues to use a bus when it is more
convenient than the Tube can prove somewhat challenging! "But it's a
bus?!"
I turned up to a training course north of Wolverhampton by 'bus once.
No-one else on it could believe that I'd done so. It was as thought
I'd just announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. No one wanted me
to go back by bus though; everyone felt obliged to offer me a lift!
*ding*

Back in student days -

friend - "where did you go at the weekend"
me - "Catford"
friend - "Why? where's Catford?"
me - "Oh South London, I just went to see what it was like and how to
get there on a bus."
friend - "on a bus? you must be mad"

or words to that effect

I tried to entice a group form North London (for whom I used to do a lot
of offbeat walks) to do one in Kennington once. You'd have though I'd
suggested an afternoon wander around the Kalahari.......
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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