How to tell you are in London?
 

<BR>1.Couldn't decide which direction to watch while crossing streets.<BR><BR>2.With so many entertainment programes to choose from, you wish there were 3-4 evenings per day.<BR><BR>3.Pay same amount or more for a snack, but in pound not dollars.<BR><BR>4.Spent a fortune for an afternoon tea even you never drink tea at home.<BR><BR>5.So crowded of tourists everywhere,you wonder where real londoners are!?<BR><BR>Any more?

You've passed the little dragon statues.... otherwise, you're probably in Westminster.

Answer to question 5:<BR><BR>we're either<BR><BR>at work, playing on Fodor's in our lunch hour or<BR><BR>on a beach somewhere else.

I am wishing I am somewhere else that has sunshine.

Gina, I am assuming you live in London. :-) I have to tell you that I guess"the grass is always greener on the other side", huh? I was there in June and I LOVE England. ..would move there in a heartbeat if given the chance. People were apologizing for the weather (it was a crisp 68 degress). We had occasional clouds and overcast weather, but we kept saying "Don't apologize!! We LOVE this weather!! It is a nice break from the 90 degree heat that we are facing back in the south!! We would give anything for this weather!!" :-) I guess if you have it all the time, it gets old, but it was a nice break for us considering that it is MISERABLY HOT where we live!! :-)

I agree completely with Elizabeth! The only people more obsessive about the weather than Americans from the Midwest are the English. Where I live we have stunningly hot summers, numbingly cold winters, we may or may not have more than a few days or short weeks of autumn or springtime and each year we have a minimum of 10 or more horrendous storms or blizzards and the occasional tornado thrown in for good measure.<BR><BR>I adore the weather in England which of course stuns my friends in England no end. I LIKE seeing the rain because sometimes where I live we wait 2 or 3 months to see it. the rain is why Britain is so green and lush. <BR><BR>This spring I spent three weeks visiting friends in Great Yarmouth, Cheltenham, and finally London (and, by the way, it never rained once!) I’d never been to England before 1997 and I’ve been at least once a year each year since. I’m a little bit late in life to be making moves but I too would live there in a heartbeat.<BR>

#. You can actually feel the money flying out of your pockets!

You actually put things called Spotted Dick and Clotted Cream IN YOUR MOUTH!!<BR><BR>

Being on the wrong side of the escalator is high crime.<BR>You start mimicking the accent and even start incorporating words like 'bloody' in your vocab.<BR>You suddenly become a theatre buff.<BR>You hear "Wow these buildings are really old" at least once.

I thought 'bloody' went out of our vocabulary in the 1960s? do some of us still use that word?<BR>Its not a 'cool' word anymore! except when used by Michael Caine in The Italian Job : )

The ladies legs are red in the front from standing close to the fireplace and brown in back from not bathing.

yyy - you have been reading way too many Dickens Novels! Its the 21st Century? Have you realised that yet? Oddball

...noticed that they drive on the wrong side of the road.<BR><BR>...food is well...interesting...if only they'd discover herbs and spices!<BR><BR>US

No YY red legs at the front (we do not like lying on our backs!)and brown legs at the back because we like to soak up the sun in Spain, Greece etc - anywhere except here.

You want tea every afternoon.<BR> You start calling annoying men Prats!<BR>You wear a scarf all the time. <BR>

You spend as much on a cab ride as your mortgage payment at home.<BR><BR> You realize the face in the phynx is Doodie Fyad<BR><BR> You realize you just paid 17 dollars US for a bottle of water and a Cappacino on Kensington High Street<BR><BR>

You are limping down Kensington High Street with sore feet but you would rather die than give in and put on a pair of sneakers.

# You started to line up(sorry,queue) for everything.

You have to have a pint and a cigarette!