The weather in London was fantastic for our first week. This was not helpful when we were starting to think about job hunting, to the point where a quick trip to Amsterdam was on the cards. So next thing you know I was at an internet cafe not far from where we live searching for flights while Miranda was at home. The internet cafe, which is also a DVD store, is on a main street and has people walk in and out fairly frequently. About 5 minutes before my time was up, I heard the shop assistant say to the other shop assistant that someone had just come and taken all the money. I thought I had heard wrong because I hadn't heard anything or saw anybody and nor did the other 9 people on the computers (bearing in mind a robber would have had to walk past us to get to the counter which was only about 5-10 metres away from the computers). Anyway, what had happened was a guy had come into the shop, walked up to the counter, pointed a gun at the shop assistant, told her to be quiet and to give her all the money out of the till. He then quietly took the money and walked out of the shop. Pretty freaky!! Within about 5 minutes there were policeman everywhere and the shop was cordoned off ... just like on 'The Bill'. The policeman took the details from all of us that were on the computers but unfortunately none of us were any help. It is amazing how you can get such tunnel vision when you are sitting in front the computer.
It makes you think, would have have happened if one of us had noticed him. I think it was lucky none of us did. I'm not sure if the guy was caught.
So that was my big city welcome!
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