Bombing The Tube

I know it's stupid, especially from someone who now has been living in London for more than 6 months, but today I was coming out from the Tube and, having some rubbish to throw, I asked myself, and my friend M. as well, why there are no bins in the stations?!

M. looked at me, actually stared at me, saying: "it's because of terrorist bomb attacks, did not you know that?!"

I have never linked the lack of bins in the Tube to terrorist attacks, it was pretty obvious to me and I felt so stupid.

Anyway, I remember about the bomb attack in the Tube on 7 July 2005.
I was 16 years old and I remember my friend G., who was on holiday in London, calling me saying that there was a suicide bomber in the Tube and that she escaped for miracle, just because she missed that train.

I was really shocked, but I was living that event from the point of view someone who was out of the UK, a kind of "untouched" viewer.



Three bombs exploded within fifty seconds of each other on three London Underground trains. It was 8.50 a.m. and as usual, the Tube was busy and full of passengers.

The first bomb exploded on a eastbound Circle line sub-surface train between Liverpool Street and Aldgate.

The second bomb exploded on the second carriage of a westbound Circle line sub-surface train between Edgware Road and Paddington.

The third bomb was on a southbound Piccadilly line deep- level train between King's Cross St. Pancras and Russell Square; the zone where I live now, the stations I most go to.



I remember now when I was just arrived in London and the first thing my mother told me was: "be careful when you take the underground!!!...you never know what those damn terrorists are going to do!"
I just replayed:" yes, yes mum...ah, ah...yes, yes..I will... byeeee" listening at half of what she was saying to me, as usual.
My mum, as any other mum, has always been annoyingly anxious, especially since I am here in London, but now, thinking about her words, even if I thought I would have never said that, she was right.