Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Impersonal personal appologies

I was waiting for a train earlier.

(London Road Brighton to Moulsecoomb should you be interested).

The tannoy (speaker system) sounded:

'Platform 1 for the 4.40 to Brighton. I am sorry to announce, this service is delayed by aproximately 33 minutes. I am sorry for the delay'

A nice kind manly voice letting me know whats happened.

A nice kind manly recorded voice letting me know the news.

A nice kind manly recorded voice speaking in the first person informing me of my impending travel disaster?

No thanks. Don't record a voice and then try to make out it is a live recording by use of language.

Not on my watch.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Numbers Please!! - You can't tell us about a train without giving us it's number.

2:02 pm

 

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