The Boy Who Likes To…

As I had said in the previous entry this weekend was going to be about a pub crawl along all the squares on a Monopoly board game. 28 properties on the board game and a pint in each one was what was planned. Luckily for me I was turning up late due to heading to Greenwich for a drink and tea with the missus.

After finishing off a nice pub tea we headed off to meet the rest of the players. I was a little weary as we had been asked to dress up, or at least have an item resembling that of a piece on the game board, ie dog, hat, car. Without this piece I wondered if, and hoped against any, forfeit.

But here is my story of what happened, the boy who likes to have fun.

 As we didnt know where the the tube stop was in Greenwich we headed to the DLR and makre our way to Kings Cross, where everyon was, via Jubilee and Northern lines. As we got off at London Bridge and waited to get the Northern to Kings Cross, it appeared that the tube was going no where. The platforms were crowded and the tube itself was overspilling. Despite the total lack of space, I doubt anyone could of scratched an itch let alone much else, more people tried to get on. This really confused me.

Instead of waiting around, we thought it might be best to cut our losses, head to Stockwell and make a run to Kings Cross via the Victoria line. But the party had moved on to teh next stop, so we were playing a little more catch up now.

 After hopping on the tube to Kings Cross the train stopped at the first stop. Oval. The missus had a think. Then I looked up at the map, not being from London I dont know the tubes too well, but I had to point out the one blaring fact in front of me.

“The Victoria line isn’t black, is it?” I commented to the missus.

She turned her head up to look at the map and see what I was talking about. Also to confirm what she had been thinking since Oval. We hadn’t jumped on the Victoria line. We had just got back on the Northern line and heading back from where we had came.

Inevitably, the next line, could of been a chorous as it came from both of us simultaneous, “lets go home.”

And that was the time I did the Monopoly board game pub crawl.