Wednesday, 19 December 2012

You. Yeah you.

So I was at one of London's biggest train stations when an announcement went out.

'Passangers are reminded that smoking is not permitted in the station.'

I looked to my right, stood near the end of the platform was a guy, wearing a bright red jacket, hood up and smoking...obviously having paid no attention to the announcement. About 30 seconds later another announcement went out.

'Man with the red jacket, stop smoking.'

Now the guy looked confused, he began looking around. Then the best announcement i've ever heard went out. Remember this was in one of London's biggest train stations.

'Yes, on platform 5 the man with red jacket who's holding a cigarette in his right hand with his hood up standing directly in front of the no smoking sign...STOP SMOKING. Oh and hood down...you're inside.'

I swear I burst out laughing on the spot, causing quite a few people who'd tuned out the announcement to stop and stare, luckily the bloke who'd been smoking didn't notice...he was far too busy stamping out his cigarette and pretending to suddenly be very interested in his phone.

How would you use the power of being able to address everyone via a speaker system? Let me know.

Thank you

Iain jb


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