Who Wants a Drink on the Tube (Now That We Can't Have One)?
by Zoe Strimpel
Sun, 1 Jun 2008 at 9:30 PM
Well, it's June 1 and that's an end to boozing on the Tube. This is no bad thing, as I said a few weeks ago when Boris Johnson announced his intentions. But it has, all the same, provoked a sudden itch to drink in transit. Alex Clark in the Observer confessed to an unprecedented urge to do it — now that we can't.
Best of all are the two Facebook groups: One Final Tube Booze Party has 4,016 members. "I believe," wrote the group's founder, "that a party is needed. So on the 31st of May I believe that we should take over a Circle Line tube train and go around and around getting drunk all day just to say up yours Boris you party animal!" The day was evidently a success: "WE HAD AN AWESOME DAY. FUN ALL ROUND, NO SCENES OF VANDALISM OR ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR UNTIL THE REST OF LONDON JOINED AT NIGHT," it reads now. Another group, "Circle Line Party — Last day of drinking on the tube," works along the same lines and has 1,068 members.
Oh well, there will always be Evian bottles of gin.
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