Metro madness

It’s morning commuter madness. I’m using ScribeFire to post this. I think my fellow commuter can see what I’m typing even though she feigns sleepy shut-eye. No matter. Glad to be publicising WordPress and ScribeFire.

Why do Metro readers get aggressively territorial  about ‘their’ newspapers. I could almost understand if they paid upwards of 90p for the privilege of reading yesterday’s news. But when the yawn-yawn they’re reading is free, and they’re using public transport, then I feel they have no right to protest against inquisitive eyes.

And the protest I’m talking about is familiar to us all: the angry crease-eliminating double-wristed flick accompanied by the “if my stare could kill it would be an SAS-like double tap between your sorry eyes”. Polite diplomacy is lost on these free-based subscribers. The only way to deal with them is by equal measures. I now carry a 50p cigarette lighter… 

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