Wednesday, 10 March 2010

We have got one under, here


Today, I can say, has been probably one of the most stressful, long and tiring day of my life.
Everything I tried to do just went wrong, inevitably wrong and the thing is that...the day is not over jet!

These are the days when I actually get the urge to commit suicide, but while to me the desire to kill myself passes after a deep sigh and a kind of hysterical laugh, for other people, refrain from committing suicide is a bit more difficult, sometimes impossible.

London Underground has a long and sad tradition about people injured in the Tube and suicides, so, when the film Three and Out came out it caused lots of protests and complaints from both the train driver union and the passengers.



Now, the most common phrase I say when I am joking about committing suicides is: "Well, lets jump off a bridge" or, in anyways, the setting I have always imagined for my death is completely different from the London Underground, such a boring and depressing place, but apparently there are people who do really love the London Underground "to death".

Apparently King's Cross and Victoria stations are the most chosen places, I don't know, I don't have my "favorite suicide Tube station", I hope none of you have one, but is it possible that the atmosphere in those two stations is so depressing to incite suicides?!

Some station have pits beneath the track, originally made to aid drainage of water from the platform, with the intent to prevent incidents, injuries, and falls .
They are called "anti-suicide pits" or "dead man's trenches", and they actually don't seem to work well enough.

I know that take the Tube doesn't have to be a fun experience, but if Transports of London could make the atmosphere in the Tube more pleasant and "agreable", but maybe if there were some flowers, colored cushions, who knows...

1 comment:

  1. Maybe the whole platform area should be fenced and there could be doors which open when the train arrives hahaha.

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