Overheard on: the Picadilly Line Eastbound, 8pm

The Setting: Picadilly Line, Eastbound, 8pm Saturday- between Hammersmith and Green Park

The Characters:
Two Kiwi blokes wearing leis, with big cans of beer with umbrellas and plastic flowers on them. The train stops at Hammersmith, and three English kids get on, mid to late twenties, two girls and a boy. They're super hip, dressed to go out. The boy is also drinking a can of beer.

Sitting next to them on the same train carriage train are: an Eastern European girl wearing far too much make-up, but putting on more and more layers of it, a Chinese woman with two huge bags coming from Heathrow, looking like a jetlagged zombie, an African man in his twenties. None of them appear to pay any attention to the conversation.

The Scene:
One of the Kiwis, a redhead (clearly fairly drunk), calls over the English bloke.

Kiwi Guy 1 (shouting): Cheers, mate! (They clink beer cans.)

English Guy: Where you all from?

Kiwi Guy: We're Kiwis.

English Guy: Live here, or...?

Kiwi Guy: Well of course, we just came all the way here for the last ever drink on the District and Circle line! (He explains, but its mumbled that they was a huge party on the District Line but now they had to switch lines for a reason I didn't hear.)

English Guy: Cheers. Yeah, hell. Yeah. Yeah it should be a party!

Kiwi Guy: Where are you guys from?

English Guy: (Some of this is lost, and picked up at the end...) And she from university and the third one is from Brighton.

Kiwi Guy 2: (Signaling with his hand to the girl as if mimicking a gang symbol) Brigh...TOOONNN!!! Yeah!!

(Girl mimicks the gang signal back and laughs).

Girl: In the hooooouse! (Pause, giggling.) Alright, alright, I'll join you guys. Let me have a beer, alright?

(Guys all laugh and cheer loudly).

Kiwi bloke 2: Ch-ching!!! Cheers!!

Everyone: Cheers!!

Kiwi bloke 1: To the last drink we'll have on the Picadilly Line!

Everyone: Woo-hooo!! (Clinking beer cans.)

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Ed note:
See here for one article covering the party thrown by Londoners on Saturday night during the last few hours before drinking on the tube was made illegal.