After a long day of
loitering around London, I got on to the tube from Victoria terminal heading towards Green Park and eventually take the
Jublie line to Kingsbury, the station after
Wembley Park where the England Vs Brazil soccer match was to be played at 7.30 pm.
Obviously, it was crowded.
I manage to squeeze in. The train starts and I am still gathering my bearings when I notice a couple of guys drinking something from a can and talking and looking around furtively. The odd things is, it looks like they are drinking beer!
Whoa! I do a sanity check on myself. Beer/
alcohol? check. Dope? check. Too tired? check. Hallucinating? pinch, ouch! check. Looks like I am all right. I squint at the contents on the cans and sure enough it says:
alc: 5% by vol! A little later I turn around and find that many other blokes are consuming beer as well.
I am still not sure if that is legal, but I surely
haven't seen any signs barring alcohol on the tubes so far. But to my US-tuned mind, the episode scandalous. Maybe it was just a
pre-match or a Friday evening thing but still.
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