Bus stop Meerkats

I’ve been meaning to write this entry for a while now, but haven’t been able to find a decent photo, so to avoid forgetting what I wanted to write I settled on the one below.

If you ever stand at a bus stop in London this is sure to be the first thing you will notice, buses approach a bus stop from one side only (like in all other countries, what a revelation!), and will obviously not drive into oncoming traffic to pick you up, if you wanted to travel in the opposite direction, you would simply cross the road and catch the other bus travelling in that direction. This however does not stop people from looking one way for the eagerly awaited bus, and then the in the opposite direction, as if by some miracle or other, the bus now drives against traffic. If you’re waiting for the bus, I can guarantee that it will approach from the same direction that all the other cars are travelling on that side of the road. Yet every day I stand there and smile because every day the same people look one way, and then just as eagerly look the other way, for some reason I find this hilarious.

If Chris is reading this, he should get what I’m saying when I say that they remind me of a bunch (just found out that it is in fact a ‘colony’ of meerkats-thanks to Ask Jeeves.com) of meerkats! Never looking in the same direction, at least one always looking the other way, and then suddenly switching. If you’re not from South Africa then you would probably call them prairy dogs, same animal, same mannerisms.