Tuesday, August 29, 2006

You Know You Are A Londoner When....

1. You say "the City" and expect everyone to know which one.

2. You have never been to The Tower of London or Madame Tussauds but love Brighton.

3. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to
get from Shepherds Bush to Elephant & Castle at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can't find Dorset on a map.

4. Hookers and the homeless are invisible.

5. You step over people who collapse on the Tube.

6. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own
language makes you multilingual.

7. You've considered stabbing someone.

8. Your door has more than three locks.

9. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

10. You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a garden.

11. You consider Kent the "countryside".

12. You think Hyde Park is "nature".

13. You're paying £1,200 a month for a studio the size of a walk-in wardrobe and you think it's a "bargain".

14. Shopping in suburban supermarkets and shopping malls gives you a severe attack of agoraphobia.

15. You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the UK pay in rent.

16. You pay £3 without blinking for a beer that cost the bar 28p.

17. You actually take fashion seriously.

18. You have 27 different take-away menus next to your telephone.

19. The UK west of Heathrow is still theoretical to you.

20. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.

21. Your idea of personal space is no one actually physically standing on you.

22. £50 worth of groceries fit in one plastic bag.

23. You have a minimum of five "worst cab ride ever" stories.

24. You don't hear sirens anymore.

25. You've mentally blocked out all thoughts of the city's air/ water quality and what it's doing to your insides.

26. You live in a building with a larger population than most towns.

27. Your cleaner is Portugese, your grocer is Somali, your butcher is Halal, your deli man is Israeli, your landlord is Italian, your laundry guy is Philippino, your bartender is Australian, your favourite diner owner is Greek, the watch seller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was African, your newsagent is Indian and your local English chippie owner is Turkish.

28. You wouldn't want to live anywhere else until you get married.

29. You roll your eyes and say 'tsk' at the news that someone has
thrown themselves under a tube train.

30. Your day is ruined if you don't get a copy of Metro on the way to work.

6 comments:

Me said...

gotta get that metro in the morning!! watch that web counter it counts your own hits and refreshes too :-) I mean I wish I had 500 hits on my site, as if.

Heather Anders said...

really? the one i have counts each page I look at (page views), but only counts my entire visit as one (visits)- regardless of how often i refresh or look at it over the day (i obviously have investigated all the possible ways to bump up my figures... the best i can do it look at it at home as well as work :)

Me said...

oh I must get one like that then - though it means it won't be free then I guess :-)
PS I am 2 day to your site, am not allowed to blog at work unfortunately, there would be more if I were!

Me said...

twice a day - i meant

Geordy and Pete said...

hello---= site meter
wh wh wh what??

Anonymous said...

just reading again - please please never goto Madame Tussads...please put your arm through the blender before you consider wasting 25 pounds worth of cash that could more better be used, like on coffee,chocolate anything !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) Lisa