Passenger Action of the Jubilee Line

ACTON: It's a not uncommon phenomenon in this town, to be standing at the train station, in the bump and push of peak hour, buffeted by free newspapers and paperback thrillers, overhearing somebody else's taste in music, and then to have somebody come over the intercom and say: "All trains on the Jubilee line have been suspended due to earlier passenger action."

Then everybody silently curses the aforementioned passenger.

And in that quaintest of euphemisms, we are all able brush off the horrible thought that life, for some people, seems so utterly hopeless, so grindingly painful, that the only solution is to end it on your way home. But this tragedy becomes, for us scurrying commuters, just another stop on the busy line of irritable delays from signal failure to congestion. So we all selfishly and silently wish that they'd chosen to end it in some empty, out of the way room.