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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3 comments:
You know what you are right. I have also never noticed ppl drinking beer in trains in US. THough why is that? Where is the law prohibiting that?
Most of the US has a law against consumption of alc in public places - except where allowed. From what I gather so far, here its the revers - allowed unless prohibited explicitly.
Most notable thing is that the dude wrote his first travel blog and that too about drinking. Very apt!! Post some pics man!!
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