Last night I was on the Caledonian Sleeper from Edinburgh to Euston which leaves Edinburgh at 11.40 p.m. I had the luxury of a single berth despite my company's travel policy doing what it could to force me to share with some unknown Scotsman.
I settled down in bed just in time to hear the guy next door come in to his berth. I was still awake and then heard a number of sounds that prompted the part of my brain that would have wanted to be a detective to become fully alert. I deduced (Sherlock Holmes -style) the following,
Not a wink of sleep trying to work all that out! And tonight I am back on the Caledonian sleeper again (don't ask!).
I settled down in bed just in time to hear the guy next door come in to his berth. I was still awake and then heard a number of sounds that prompted the part of my brain that would have wanted to be a detective to become fully alert. I deduced (Sherlock Holmes -style) the following,
- The chop was drunk or had a stomach bug as he heaved into the sink
- He had three legs because he took off three shoes
- He did not brush his teeth because the tap was never turned on
- One of his legs was made of tin and he put it in the metal waste-paper basket at 1.00 a.m.
Not a wink of sleep trying to work all that out! And tonight I am back on the Caledonian sleeper again (don't ask!).
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