The Poseidon Adventure
The Towering Inferno
Airport 1975
...to name but three. A film wasn't a good film unless
Charlton Heston
was somehow, against all the odds, managing to land a plane on a runway barely big enough to stick a postage stamp on to JUST in the nick of time.
Anyway, I work for a large company in Stockholm with a large staff canteen. Every lunchtime, well I say lunchtime but a fair few Swedes decide to eat their lunch at 10:30. However, that aside, once the proverbial
lunch time bell
goes at around 11:30am, then the real action begins. The only way I can describe this to anyone who hasn't seen the daily ritual is as follows.. Imagine new years eve in Times Square New York. Suddenly, unannounced,
Elvis
pops up on the roof of the MTV building with a microphone. He announces he didn't die afterall AND better still, he is planning an impromtu concert for the first 200 people in the queue starting NOW. Then and only then can one begin to imagine what the rush for the subsidised canteen food is like.
Now don't get me wrong, the food is fine, a pretty wide selection and all cooked to a decent standard. Sure, it can be a bit repetitive at times but you basically can't knock it. So this brings me back to my opening gambit. When that lunchtime bell goes, it is suddenly PRISON RULES. Every man for himself and women and children to the back, unless they're prepared to
ruck and maul
If one dares to take a relaxed stroll down to the canteen without realising it is a rizzla paper past 11:30 then what you will see is straight out of a scene from
The Poseidon Adventure
Some people are particularly hungry:
Some people just aren't up to it physically:
And some happy souls are first in line and get themselves a bucketful of the most sumptuous meatballs:
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