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“MIND. THE GAP.” It’s only Embankment station that has this old recording. The rest have been updated. It is kept just for her. The new message is longer and much less stern. Something along the lines of “Please mind the gap between the train and the platform”

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The stern warning is iconic tho.

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“Roight, blokes. Doff your rubbish in the skip, else me bobbies will haul you roight to the Tower o’ London!”

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How sexist. It doesn’t mention birds at all!

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How come? Wake up! c/birdsarentreal

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Doff your rubbish in the skip

This does mean something but I suspect you have the wrong idea of what!

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Put your trash in the little hallway?

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Aww shit. I have a health condition so my wife is extremely likely to outlive me, probably by decades. I should start recording videos for her.

Or should I? I want her to move on after I go and I don’t want to interfere with that. Dying sucks.

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gotta make the most cringe content you can, make it a real test so she has to really miss you to watch them

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Just a recording of you singing baby shark.

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The answer is yes you absolutely should

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She can always decide to not listen to them. However, when you don’t make them she would have no other option. I think the recordings would be a very nice idea. Maybe even video.

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I think video is a great idea. I’m going to do one a day, just about what has been going on, five minutes or less. I also need to start keeping a dairy diary, so this will knock out both at once.

Edit: I am not a rancher.

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She loves you. She will always love you. The other people in her life that love her will need to love her loving you. She’ll move on, but she’ll always carry you with her. Make the videos

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Dammit, now I need to explain to the other people I’m at dinner with why I’m crying. Thanks, you’re right and I needed to hear this.

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My dad passed away two years ago and I wish I had followed through with doing video interviews of him. Asking him questions about life, having him tell the same stories he’d already told 100x. I wish I had those.

I am already starting to do that for my daughter who is only 9 months old.

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Looks like they tried to get rid of it 10 years ago then brought it back

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-21719848

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I love how the post says the “mind the gap” was recorded in 1950 but TfL started using that message in 1969 😆

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Funny thing is, her husband’s not even dead. She just likes the recordings.

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Aww. This reminds me of my car, which had a recording of my dad who had it before, saying “Tweak’s phone”. It’s something so small and insignificant, but still warmingly happy.

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I set up a streaming radio station with a looped recording of my cat purring. She died in 2018. This way she’d always be purring somewhere in the ether.

Miss you, Choupie.

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