London – Overheard on the Train (an occasional series)

As part of my “overheard on the train” occasional series, which is some of the reason that I like travelling.

There are what I assume to be two grandparents and their two grandchildren on the train and we’ve just gone by Romford greyhound stadium on the Crossrail train (currently branded as TFL Rail).

Anyway, the grandfather said “there’s the greyhound stadium, do you know what your grandmother did there back in the day?“.

The boy (aged about 6), in all seriousness, replied “did she run round the track?”.

The grandfather is highly amused, but the grandmother looks positively livid. I don’t think the kids will be getting the McDonald’s they had been asking for….. For the factual record, she worked in the ticket office.