London Living · Monday August 20, 2007
How to spend £30 ($60) on one evening out even though you tell yourself upon withdrawing the cash that it will last you through the weekend:
1) Realise that you have no money on your pay-as-you-go mobile phone. Top up by £10, as that is the minimum allowed amount.
2) Realise that you have no money on your Oyster card, which means that you won’t be able to ride a bus or tube without paying exorbitant cash fees. Top up by £5.
3) Go skateboarding at South Bank and spend £1 on a bottle of water and £1.50 on a cup of coffee.
4) Realise that you went skateboarding without eating dinner and are getting quite light-headed from lack of protein. Buy a hummus and salad pita from a kebab shop for £2.50.
5) At this point, you have £10 left. Go to the pub to meet friends, purchase 3 pints over 3 hours, and if you’re lucky (being in Hackney and not the West End), you’ll have a pound or so left at the end.
6) Your friends then convince you to attend a squat party/rave in Shoreditch, where you spend your last pound and some change on entry. You spend 5 minutes walking through the semi-squalid interior of the collapsing building, listening to shitty techno and avoiding wasted Shoreditch hipsters. It’s pretty depressing. Time to leave.
7) It’s 3:00 am and time to catch the night bus back to New Cross with dozens of drunk people! The driver of the N21 from London Bridge passes by without stopping (could it be the hoodie? the skateboard?), forcing you to wait another 20 minutes in the abnormally wintry-feeling August night.
Congratulations, you’ve just dropped $60 (or 50% of your current bank balance) on a night out in East London!
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Isaac Amendolara writes:
Hey! Why didnt you go to your GHS 10yr reunion? I didnt even go to that school and I went!
posted Aug 27, 04:30 PM ~ #