White Ace in the morning

8am. Kings Cross: A man gets on with a bag of bamboo sticks.  He stands there with a couple of them in his hands and out of the blue has just started waving them about like a mad man.  What on earth is he doing? He is now waving them up and down at the tube map as if the map has just done something to offend him. Maybe he is colour blind.  Surely he is going to hit someone, sit down silly man!

Another woman is sitting doing some knitting and has obviously made a lot of effort to look British today with bright red and blue colours on. She could be a tesco employee though. A man is reading the paper and has headphones in.  He is sitting next to a woman who is also wearing headphones and is staring at her feet. Everything tells me that these two do not know each other apart from the fact they are actually having a conversation. He doesn't look at her and I can hear his music. How does this work then?
Finsbury Park: Orange orange orange appears to be the theme of the group that just got on. Two with orange t-shirts, one with orange flowers in her hair and one with orange sunglasses, the Dutch have arrived! Somehow their arrival on the tube has gone unnoticed and they are blending in quite well.  (More so than the British/Tesco employee sitting opposite!)
Meanwhile, a woman is drinking from a 3 litre bottle of something. It has caught my attention a few times. She is trying to be discreet. What is she drinking?  She must be about 50 or so, very smartly dressed although her hair is a mess. She is trying to sort the hair, I wish she wouldn't though because there are bits of god knows what falling out of it, why can't people sort themselves out before traveling! In her bag is a fancy looking diary and some other documents. She has taken the diary out twice and shuffled her documents about, but hasn't actually looked at any of them. The bottle is now by her feet, hidden in a bag.  Ahh, I've just seen 'www.drinkaware.com' written on the side. She bends down to take another drink, trying to hide what I can now see is 7.5% cider at the bargain price of £3.45! Now that is happy hour prices, but at this time of morning??  I wonder how many other people are currently drinking before work?