“There are severe delays
on the Victoria line due to a person under a train. There is a good service on all other London Underground
lines.”
Ughhh.
("Person under a train" for some reason strikes me as an odd way to put that.)
Anyways, it took me a few
months to realize that the announcement proclaiming “a good service running on
all London Underground lines” was referring to the fact that all trains were
running smoothly. So that probably
seems obvious to most people. But,
hearing the announcement one day, I suddenly realized that I had always thought
I heard “a goods service
running on all London Underground lines” and subconsciously imagined trains
transporting goods (like grocery items) on the tube. Apparently I never wondered why I had never seen one of
these transports. ......I’m gonna blame
the weird way the word “good” is emphasized in that announcement—“there is a
GOOD service”.......
(But really I just
wonder if my brain works anymore.)
