ENGLAND London Bombing

My experience of the LONDON BOMBINGS


What a bad day to go to town
It has taken me all afternoon to creep home in buses.

I couldnt use the tubes at lunch time and I heard about the bombs.

I found myself outside Victoria station trying to figure out how to go home and wondering how bad the violence might be.

All underground passengers were above ground.

People were stressed and silent.
No smiles.

I was standing beside a young woman with a white cane.
She had another young woman on her arm.

Something struck me to take a closer look. They were both blind and they were saying things like "Thats it we are really stuck now"
(Alan Edwards told me 2 blind people usually pretend that one of them can see.)

I offered to help the poor things, they had no phone.

I guess in London the phone would be pinched from them in no time -too much like victims.

I offered to give them my phone to take with them but they only wanted to use it

The main problem was they did not have the address where they were going to.
I assumed they knew the way via tube and cane tap. The one with the cane was taking the lead.

They were worried about ME not getting a bus before services came to a halt.

I walked them into a shop and asked some Indian newsagents to help us as my phone wasnt working as due to the crisis BT shut it down sporadically

The shop cellphone was out too.

The women were afraid.

I asked them to come home with me.Then the guys came back after us to say they found another phone that would go. Nice of them.

After a successful call and paper and pen from the guys to write down the address we walked threelinked arms style across the pedestrian walk over to the hectic Victoria station.

I joked how easy it was to charge at people and how they all gave away like water.

Due to reluctance of people to board the buses the taxi queue was stretched the width of the station frontage.100's of people maybe a thousand. Very orderly London style of course.

I talked to the women as I walked to the head of the queue explaining what I was doing.

"We cant do that" one of the women said

"Oh yes we can"

And we did

Bev Olson