to not want to play "Dodge the Vomit" on my way into work in the City???

[RGPargy]

Honestly, it's really starting to piss me off now! Every single morning i have to walk from Cannon Street to Liverpool Street and every single morning there's a different pile of puke along the way that i have to dodge. You'd think these stuck up suit-types would have more decorum, rather than be so disgusting as to be sick everywhere on the bloody streets!!! I would half expect it if it were a Sunday morning in my local town or summat, but this is the CITY, ffs!!

GGGRRR I so cannot wait to go on mat leave now.

OrmIrian - yuk, it must be even worse when it's at HOME!!!

dirtmonkey - lol @ slam door trains. Oh how i remember them. People jumping on and off the trains while they were moving, lots of suicides etc etc. Those were the days....

BarryScott - nice idea but they'd probably just say they had to spend their money on cleaning the vomit from the trains or summat lol.

Kew - would LOVE to do lunch but i'm leaving work on 17th October! Hoorah!!

bah!

Kew - sounds like an idea. I've not been to one yet.
though will be sorry to miss you RG!

ooh I'll start a thread...

Maybe we could arrange another one in the new year and i could bring my shiny new baby along with me. I could combine the lunch with the visit to the office to show baby off!

I have to play "dodge the puddle of wee" when I come out of my own front door (central London and round the corner from a Ha Ha Bar...).

What I don't get is that these men (and yes, it's always men) have been in the pub all night - where they have toilets.

It's why I never really understood (or liked) that Little Britain sketch of the old woman with incontinence. It's men who can't control their bladders.

lol Jura. Funnily enough my boss was showing me pics of the area from that bombing the other day. Fascinating stuff to see!

RGPargy, 99. I did spend a few years there myself on the second floor (in a previous life).

DW used to work in 55!

Tech - was it the big German bank way back then as it is now?

Think i will have to investigate where 55 and 155 are. They seem to be popular numbers!

They are piloting a new scheme in Putney.
Upon leaving certain eating establishments, femle diners are given 2 mint flavoured lollipops. This keeps them from talking, as they are busy sucking their lollipop, and because they are not talking, they dont linger outside the establishment, and the men leave too, result? Less puke around said establishment(s) participating in the scheme....

jura - ooooh i think i know where you mean!!

SSN - How funny! I take it that's not SERIOUS!! LOL!!

RGPargy, it is seriously actually. I find it shocking. But if the tactics works, maybe all pubs, clubs and restaurants will start giving women lollipops, or flavoured dummies.

Barings is still in 155...........

This thread is making me all nostalgic - not because I used to vomit everywhere , but because I used to work in the real city before I got exiled to Canary Wharf.....

Starry - what happened your Hallowe'en name? And what venues in Putney are doing that (nosey ex-local emoticon)

I work on Bishopsgate! And yes, it can be extremely gross passing the P&P on the way to work... thank the Lord I do an 8 til 4 now, so I tend not to get the 'Friday night drunk on the last train out of L'pool St' sitting opposite me, lurching back and forth like he (it tends to be a he although there have been a few she)'s about to puke at any moment...

Somebody I used to work with (a smart girl in a suit) had been drinking the night before. In the morning, she was in a lift in a tube station and she actually threw up ONTO the person in front of her - the puke was down the back of their clothes . I am horrified at this as I have hyperemesis for the 2nd time and although I cannot always get to the toilet in time, I have never puked on another person - only on myself in an emergency!

Waynetta, I went back to my old name to show sKerryMum and others that spider, and uploaded pic to profile, and did not bother to move profile, so changed to starry, and forgot to change back. Just to make a short story long.

Thai Square in particular..... Doesnt bode well for fine dining at hot spot restaurant and club if you go out and PUKE at the end of the evening, neighbours were complaining about the amount of drunks puking around their doorstep. It is a pilote scheme!

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oooh can i come to a lunch too?

technically i'm not in The City as I'm near Tate Modern.

however, I can attest to revolting vomit puddles around Waterloo. Also, quite often around Richmond overland too.

Kew can vouch for me, I'm a lovely person, please let me come and hang out with you city types!

ps: can i count as half a city type as i regularly go to meetings in Finsbury Sq?

Ahhh
nostlgia.
I used to work in the city. I was in the old LLoyds building (which has now been knocked down) and then in the new one until I gave up in '96. I used to have to visit all the offices around there.I LOVED my job!
Went to see DH at work with DC's in the summerand it has all changed now [sigh]. We had lunch in Leadenhall market and DD just kept saying "but mummy what did you work at?" as if the idea of me having a job was just ludicrous.
There were sick puddles even back then! pavement pizzas.

ahh!