Saturday 1 June 2013

25 Reasons that you know your leaving London*


*Aside from the fact that your visa is expiring

  1. The ‘L’ word becomes forbidden to use
  2. HMRC is on speed dial for that final tax rebate
  3. The dreaded ‘Heathrow injection’ (a cause of concern for any arriving Antipodean that they will inflate after gorging on English food and booze) becomes a reality in your final days due to a increase in pub visits for those last goodbyes
  4. Your morning inbox dramatically reduces after unsubscribing from the daily Groupon and Amazon Deals emails
  5. Ryanair is no longer the [dreaded preferred] airline of travel
  6. You suddenly realize that the surging crowds on Oxford Street no longer annoy you
  7. Pants can be a term used openly in conversation without getting any odd looks
  8. Lloyds TSB stop calling you as your never going to take that overdraft now
  9. No longer are you included in the Glastonbury planning emails
  10. Sunscreen is a product that is actually needed and used in certain parts of the world
  11. You realize that your probably never going to walk this far to get to blah blah blah… or travel for 45 mins in a tube to get to blah blah… or even bother with public transport at home as it isn’t as good as London
  12. Cotton clothes stay ‘hole free’ as the moths have found a new victim
  13. What winter jacket?  
  14. 6 pairs of shoes aren’t ‘a necessity’ to take traveling
  15. No longer does your Mum need to call and ask you, “When are you coming home?”
  16. Your glad that you never completely dropped your standards and morphed into a fake eye-lash wearing, fake tan glowing TOWIE wannabe
  17. You can be included on the Christmas list this year – and there will be a space for you at the family dinner table
  18. This is your last chance to try a jacket potato with sweet corn and tuna or get creative with every other possible food substance that can become a filling
  19. A URL for a blog is your only address
  20. Your still not interested in going up the London-eye (that’s only for real tourists)
  21. This is your last – last chance to try tally up a bill for more than £100 at Primark
  22. A weekend in Europe will become a memory from the past
  23. Buying a round of drinks won’t set you back £30 anymore
  24. Sunbathing in the park becomes weird and drinking a alcohol in a public place is back to being illegal
  25. Your friends can finally stand down from duties as surrogate parents/sisters/brothers and every other blood relation as you do have a 'real family' that you need to return too :)
Toodle pip x

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