Tue
Nov
08
2005
More commuting experiences – a party night
Was up in London for a party last weekend. I decided to get one of the post pub – pre club trains home to Brighton … so the experiment goes in to full flow. I turn off my walkman phone, put the headphones away and let the interaction come to me.
I know it is cheating, most people in the train are at least slightly merry. I engaged in conversation by a couple of women (30 ish) who had been to see a Rooster concert (so they must have been 2x the average age then)?!
Turns out we were at the back of an 8 carriage train that divides at Hayward’s Heath – so we had to get to the front of the train, my suggestion was to get out at every station along the journey and move 1 carriage forwards, this was agreed and we had many a near scrape getting on just in time and were joined by quite a few Brighton dwellers, doing the same, making for a more than averagely fun trip.
In the context of the experiments again the indications are good, but as we were on a late train and most people were a little intoxicated then the results are probably invalid. Pity.
