I pick Janice up and we head to the tube station. We get to the station to discover that the tubes aren't functioning until further notice because of signal failures. The platform is teeming with irate and frustrated customers. A queue of people forms to ask the one uniformed man what's going on. In the background a voice keeps announcing the same thing over the loudspeakers, unintelligibly of course.
People start to leave the station.
I phone the office. I don't know what to do. The receptionist checks with her boss and says it's okay to be an hour late. Janice and I seat ourselves on a bench and have our lunch. Because I found out about the delay before buying a ticket, I thought I'd wait and see rather than spend the money on the ticket and then have to get a refund and all that.