Welcome to London!
A city where a significant drop in space, when going from a 3 bedroom apartment to a 1 bedroom apartment IN THE SAME BUILDING can often not mean a change in rent at all, and in fact in some situations you can end up paying more? However the bedroom in a single bedroom apartment still has an ensuite, as well as a main bathroom. Whats the point in THAT? That I think the few people I will ever have visiting me in my apartment are likely to dirty up my main bathroom so I wont want to share it with anyone? Surely a 1 bedroom apartment isn't big enough to justify an ensuite. Apparently not.
Welcome to London, a city where your travel cards can expire, and you'll walk onto buses (from 2 different bus companies, in 2 different parts of London), trains (again, 2-3 different train companies) on which you will show conductors your expired tickets, and past ticket collectors in the train stations who check your tickets and none of these people will actually notice your ticket has been expired for weeks. I've taken this further actually, and started showing people random cards. Like my building swipe card, which is a bright blue colour, one completely unknown to any ticket vendor alive in the history of the London Universe. Only one guy noticed, at which point I showed him my expired travel card and he let me past. Of course this doesnt apply to the automatic turnstyles, but my work journey doesnt include any of those, so no one noticed. Anyway I got bored of this laughable but free trip to work, so I got a car. Oh well. Wonder if they do petrol cards in this country?
Welcome to London, a city where your moods can change so drastically that you might as well mix a bottle of Prozac with a Xanax together with some extacy, because at least then you'd have an excuse for being up and down like a $2 whore on a sailor! Fiona McDonald never said it better, she must have lived in London, because the "highs are so high, but the lows are so low..."
Welcome to UK, a country where you can send an expired drivers license from another country into the LMVD and get back a full UK driving photocard. Nice!
Needless to say its been a weird week. Gone from being almost homeless and a little under the weather, to having everything sorted out in the space of an afternoon. After verbally abusing 2 car salesmen, I got my car a day earlier than promised, although that was 3-4 days later than it would have happened in any country that had its act together a little better. I found a new apartment in the same complex as where I'm living now, so I get to drop down 2 floors to move instead of having to hire movers and that sort of malarky. Anyway, this evening I love London, I love UK, its a great place to be etc etc...
...however I'm fully expecting to end up deleting this little entry in disgust by tomorrow evening! :)