severe economic conditions affecting london restaurants

[tcm]

Has anyone else noticed how bad things are becoming? I noticed at least one customer - suddenly realising that he was unable to pay - rush from his table saying "me train's going" and leaving only a few quid, so that everyone else at the table had to make up the difference. I would imagine the same sort of thing must have happened in hyperinflationary Russia, Brazil or Germany. Did scotland have hyperinflation as well at some time in history?

 

[Becky]

So which poor Scottish forumite are you getting at this time. And wouldn't a train to the extreme N leave a tad earlier anyway. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Alistairr]

Possibly, but i think only in Kilmarnock!!!

 

[sailorman]

well me thinks that had the impoverished forumite used easyjet rather than British Rail, he could have paid the whole bill himself + tip /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[tome]

I had a similar experience. A friend had a problem feeding his GPS antenna as the connector was too big to fit through his deck gland. Charitably, I told him to cut it off and I'd fit a new one after he'd run the cable. I had to drive a round trip of nearly 80 miles to do this, but this is what friends are for.

After we finished, he suggested a beer. Bugger me if he didn't have any money on him. I didn't quite understand his explanation as he lapsed into an accent so obscure that ah didnae ken whit he was blethering aboot. I'm sure I picked up the words hyperinflation and Holyrood.

 

[ParaHandy]

might there be a train this late on the Bakerloo line? For, on this line there i was in the company of the great explorer himself (the auld goat) at around midnight. Thinking the latter day St Christopher would advise that Paddington is my stop I nodded off after a hard and tiring day. But, not a word passed his lips as Paddington approached and I only narrowly avoided being swept to the far North or wherever the Bakerloo line terminates ...

 

[claymore]

Jings - Ah've nivver seen a mon sleep sae deep - ye wiz comatose.