I am not sure whether anyone will have noticed, but yesterday I decided to add a bit to the entry I posted on Thursday. It was only a couple of sentences which didn’t change the entry much overall, but I thought it was a good idea. I wanted to explain why I chose not to accept anything to eat when the staff at the station offered to get me some food. Of course, by about seven on Thursday evening I was growing rather hungry so I would have gladly eaten something. But the problem was there were no tables around for me to put any food on, so a sandwich or something would just have disintegrated, and I didn’t want to get myself too messy, especially given that I didn’t know how long a night lay ahead.

This was obviously a fairly minor point. I thought it was worth making though, as it explained the difficulties which I as a disabled person face. On my blog I think it is important that I present my perspective as much as possible, which includes elaborating on things like why I might need to go hungry in such situations. After all, not many people will ever experience being stuck in the entrance hall of a tube station for two or three hours. I think that, at least in part, is the point of my blog. My only other option was to ask one of the staff to feed me something, which I naturally felt pretty awkward doing as it wouldn’t have been in their job description. That is why, as famished as I was, I felt compelled to decline their offers and stay hungry. I don’t think many people would realise how such things might be an issue though, which is why I went back to specifically add that detail to the entry.