Action-filled Saturday

We had a good time last night, meeting my Danish friend Eva at the Glasshouse stores on Brewer street, on the outskirts of Soho (closest tube being Piccadilly circus). It's not an impressive pub in any way, but it's friendly enough, central and quite cheap (they do their own ales). Always a good combination. Tim argues it's an old drinking club (from the good old days when drinking in London was rather limited), because of its huge basement area. It was really nice to catch up with Eva, who has finally got a job in London! (Which, indeed, is more than I can say about myself.)

After making sure she got on the right bus to Hammersmith, at about 23.30, we got on the number 12 going the other way. At Westminster bridge the bus driver closed the doors before a man on crutches made it off. He was understandably rather upset, and several people (including hubby) shouted at the driver. But no, the bus had started moving, and there was nothing else to do, than for the bloke to get off at the next stop (at the Cut, one stop from us). However, the man on crutches was now rather upset, and once on the pavement put one of his crutches between the doors of the bus, so that they wouldn't close. He then started to scream a lot, in Polish, as it were (Tim could, however, still recognize the c-word!). Turns out that his best mate was drunk and asleep at the end of the bus. So he was now swearing at the driver, as well as at his mate. And the bus could not move... After a few minutes an Asian guy got really upset, and went to the door to tell the Polish guy to back off and let the bus drive away. Ooooh, tension tension! A lot of very not so pretty words were exchanged, before Tim decided to join the discussion. And I'm glad he has the experience from the pub he ran to handle drunk people, and that he is quite big, because they both soon backed off, before any physical action took place. I was rather shocked, but everybody made a joke about it, thinking the guy in the back really deserved to wake up in Dulwich, which is in absolutely nowhere!

Spent an hour in front of Galaxy Quest before going to bed. Quite an action-filled evening, after all.