girl on underground

By Mike Ashworth | November 3, 2009

The other day James Whatley aka @whatleydude posted a photograph on Flickr (reproduced below with permission).

A friend of his, Thom James, from 1000heads, the Word of Mouth Marketing Company, was on an underground train in London, when a girl handed him this note as she got off at Marylebone.

note handed to guy on underground

We all hurry and scurry about on our way to work or home and often don’t spare a thought for the people around us.

Accidents happen, people get bumped into, done it myself, however a sincere apology at the time would have probably been met with a positive response and the young lady wouldn’t have had to write the note above.

One thing that puzzles me at the moment is that more and more people are saying we are living in a time when we’ve never been as connected to other people, social networking, social media, all these wonderful tools to bring us ever closer to other people.

Yet, they count for nothing if we don’t ensure we take notice of people in the real world and treat them with dignity and respect.

Make what you will of Thom’s response on Twitter to being handed this note….

“Was handed a note by a girl on the tube last night…apparently I nearly shoved her onto the tracks at T Court Rd…er, sorry”

Or his comments on the discussion over at Flickr

“Maybe she should seek an alternative means of transport if she finds negotiating the underground at rush hour so upsetting? I’m not really sure what she expects people to do in order to get through a crowd. You’d think I’d Marlon Kinged her.

I’m sorry to have upset her so, but shit happens luv, no malice intended.”

Perhaps, and this is just floating an idea.  As Thom works for a Word of Mouth Marketing Company, perhaps he could reach out, get in touch with this girl, meet for a coffee and apologise face-to-face.


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One Response to “girl on underground”

  1. UK Travel
    5:26 pm on November 4th, 2009

    LOL… that seems a bit extreme. A simple apology might have done the trick but when you don’t realise that you’ve done something, I guess that’s difficult.

    Here’s how they tackle the problem in Japan:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33qxTMA9XTA ;-)

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