I’m off to Italy today for a week.
The tube workers union obviously decided they needed to fuck with my planned holiday so they all went on strike. In truth they’re striking about not getting their 5% pay increase this year.
For some reason they think it’s acceptable to bring the city to a stand still over this, causing huge delays for workers trying to get into their places of employment - workers, mind you, that have probably had their pay frozen for this year (me included), or taken pay cuts so they can keep their jobs.
My usual trip to the bus station that would take me to the airport took 2 hours; double what it usually would.
And now I’m trapped on that Terravision bus (fitting name) without any windows or aircon, drowning in 40 degree sweat.
Promising start.
