one more thing before I retire

A funny thing happened on the way back from Piccadilly Circus this evening. I had gone there with a few friends to buy a pair of walking sandals at the world famous Lillywhites Sport Store. Piccadilly at night is incredible, almost like Times Square with all the neon and constant activity. We hopped on the tube to Oxford station where we hoped to change to the Central Line for our ride home, but when we reached our car an announcement came over the PA system saying that the our station (Queensway) was closed due to a passenger assault. Immediately some passengers disembarked and we followed suite. We opted for a bus ride rather than wait for the business at Queensway to get sorted out, and we went street level to find the correct route. Our bus was late, and there must have been about 15 other people waiting with us. We crammed into the bus and tried not to breathe in the mixture of smells that are typical at the end of a long work day. At each stop more and more people tried to get on and we kept getting pushed further and further into each other. About five stops from our destination we noticed that there was a verbal battle at the front of the bus. Apparently a man forced himself and his small family onto the bus even after being told it was too full by the bus driver. When the door closed it apparently hurt this man's wife and almost injured his son. The man was furious and he started to yell at the bus driver. The driver stopped, ordered the man off the bus and yelled at him when he refused to do so. We couldn't hear too much from the middle of the bus but I could make out the angry customer saying to the bus driver, "this is not a cow bus, this a human being bus". The driver wouldn't move the bus until the unruly passenger and his family got off. Rather than wait for it to get sorted out, we took the next available bus and made it home. Overall the trip back took us a little more than an hour, when the trip over took us less than 20 minutes.