The bus I take home from the tube is on diversion at the moment because of some roadworks in the neighbourhood, and as a result, in order to avoid a tedious two mile detour in heavy traffic, it makes sense to get off the bus much earlier and walk home.
It’s not far - about fifteen minutes or so - but in the rain of last week it got fairly old pretty quickly.
And then, just when we thought that was bad enough, the other night, congestion was so bad in Hammersmith - gridlock, in fact - that no buses, or any other vehicles come to that, were moving at all, so I wound up walking all the way home (about 3 miles) in the chilly (and thankfully, non-rainy) air.
The good: great podcast listening session and a feeling of virtue. The bad: definitely the wrong shoes.
I want to live near a tube station again.
I had to walk home that night too. And I live so close to a tube station they wake me up at 5.30am! But it was a nice night to walk home!!
You need a bigger bag.
To carry some comfy shoes with you.
Where comfy = unfashionable. Yeah. I KNOW shoes.
Gordon - I hear you, I really do. But the thing is, your plan only works if you KNOW you’re going to need the hiking boots.
Otherwise, I’m carrying things around “just in case”, in which case I might as well carry a sewing kit, spare pair of pants, tyre inflator and tensor bandage.
Slightly related - did you hear about the scientists who worked out that it’s very rarely faster to walk when you’ve been waiting for a bus in the hope of getting there faster. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3241305.ece
Truly bizarre