Full Frontal

So the wondrous public transport system in London claims another victim. Actually nobody died, it was a woman who'd fainted at the top of the ascending escalators at Holborn station. I didn't witness the fall but she was stretched out on her front surrounded by members of the Tube staff as I walked past. Odd place for a person to faint in my experience as usually faintees (is that correct terminology for someone who faints?!) on the Tube are those who've been standing too long on platforms or on packed trains. That woman must have fainted in mid-stride as she walked off the escalator so nobody could have caught her (ouch) as sometimes happens on the carriages and platforms when people are standing about.

There must be something at Holborn station that makes it an eventful place because it's where I witness plenty of weird and wonderful things. For example, the time I was walking through the connection between the Piccadilly and Central lines when, at the top of the stairs there was a girl of about 20 or so who'd stripped naked, her clothes all about her on the floor and commuters filing past staring. Pretty surreal really but it certainly spiced up that journey! To this day I don't know what that was all about as she looked pretty compus mentus and not seemingly drunk. Some Tube staff were there trying to cover her up with a coat - perhaps it was a student prank or some publicity stunt by a far-out media company, though I didn't notice any bodyart on her - not that I looked that closely or anything!