OMG! What a sighting!
Posted: 10 Mar 2024, 15:39
Last night I was returning to London by train and I had to get the underground from Euston to Waterloo. It was about 10pm and as I was on the down escalator, I wasn’t really paying much attention to anything but suddenly I noticed a lad on the up escalator. He was almost level with me by the time I saw him, but he was bent forwards holding his crotch. He’d almost passed me before I could take in what I’d seen and I was thinking “did I really see that”. His head was bowed so I hadn’t really seen his face.
When I got to the bottom of the escalator, I looked back up to the other side, and this lad was squatting down on his haunches with his head down, still on the moving escalator. There was another lad standing alongside him, so as people usually stand one behind the other, I assume he was with him, or a mate.
I couldn’t say how old he was, probably twenties, but I have no real idea, and he was wearing jeans and a beige coloured shirt.
They’d obviously got off a tube train and he must have been nearly wetting himself. To hold himself like that and then be unable to even stand up straight, you’d have to assume he was beyond breaking point. He clearly wasn’t in any state to be able to run up the escalator.
The most thought-provoking fact for me is that I had only just been thinking how ridiculously long the walk is to get to the underground platforms at Euston station and I was thinking it must be a nightmare if someone had mobility issues. So how on earth this lad managed to eventually get to the entrance and then find a toilet is both a frightening and enthralling prospect.
Assuming he didn’t just relieve himself in the middle of a packed train station (and he obviously hadn’t done so on the station platform), I seriously wonder if he managed to avoid having an accident and wetting himself in full public view.
Who knows, maybe he was even ‘doing it’ whilst on the escalator?
I should have got back on the up side, shouldn’t I?
When I got to the bottom of the escalator, I looked back up to the other side, and this lad was squatting down on his haunches with his head down, still on the moving escalator. There was another lad standing alongside him, so as people usually stand one behind the other, I assume he was with him, or a mate.
I couldn’t say how old he was, probably twenties, but I have no real idea, and he was wearing jeans and a beige coloured shirt.
They’d obviously got off a tube train and he must have been nearly wetting himself. To hold himself like that and then be unable to even stand up straight, you’d have to assume he was beyond breaking point. He clearly wasn’t in any state to be able to run up the escalator.
The most thought-provoking fact for me is that I had only just been thinking how ridiculously long the walk is to get to the underground platforms at Euston station and I was thinking it must be a nightmare if someone had mobility issues. So how on earth this lad managed to eventually get to the entrance and then find a toilet is both a frightening and enthralling prospect.
Assuming he didn’t just relieve himself in the middle of a packed train station (and he obviously hadn’t done so on the station platform), I seriously wonder if he managed to avoid having an accident and wetting himself in full public view.
Who knows, maybe he was even ‘doing it’ whilst on the escalator?
I should have got back on the up side, shouldn’t I?