Happy Birthday Tube You!

 

The London metropolitan underground railway system, the first in the world, opened 148 years ago today.  The "Tube" has 270 stations and 250 miles of track.   It is the second longest metro system in the world (only Shanghai’s is longer) and almost three and half million people ride the London metro daily. 

And that little recorded announcement that reminds train passengers to be careful while crossing between the train door and the platform is a great metaphor for lots of other circumstances in life.  Circumstances and situations which require care and focus and attention (if we don't want to figuratively lose our balance and fall into something undesirable).

"Mind the Gap" has to be the best three-word-phrase ever, after "I love you" of course, in the English language.