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The lost shoe story

diddling. I got on the train. It was to London to bring and I got on the train. And as I got on the train, my shoe fell off my foot, went under the train. I turn around to get o...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: British humor with Angela BarnesSubtitles: en

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I was

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diddling. I got on the train. It was to

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London to bring and I got on the train.

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And as I got on the train, my shoe fell

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off my foot, went under the train. I

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turn around to get off the train. Doors

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closed. I'm now going to London with one

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shoe on. I just started a new job. I've

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got decisions to make. Do I go back and

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try and get my shoe? I have got time.

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I'm going to be late for my new job. So,

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I have to continue my journey. I get to

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London Bridge. Got another decision to

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make cuz then I have to get on the

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London Underground. So I think what

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looks more mental, one shoe or no

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shoe? Rock socks off. But I decide shoes

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look less mental. So I take the other

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shoe off and I put it in my hand and I

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go to work and I just have to style it

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out all day. I might have got away with

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it and my job not be. Hopeless outfit

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supporter. So you couldn't do that in

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America. You couldn't do that in in you

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know I've did some shows in New Zealand

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and I remember um you know I'd do jokes

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that would be about myself. Yeah. And

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they'd be kind of is she okay? Do we

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need to stage an

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intervention? So yeah definitely the

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self-deprecating I think is the number

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one thing that we do that not everyone

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does. That's a good point. And you you

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don't you don't want to get confused

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like we're having doing like some sort

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of cry for help. Exactly. Yeah. We're

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okay. It's not therapy.

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