After work yesterday, my sister and I ran - seriously RAN big time - for the tube.

My trip went a little something like this.

Touched my ID card to the clock in/out machine at 10.15pm, walked swiftly through a maze of exits to finally reach the bus stop in good time (10.21pm). I stayed on the bus for roughly ten minutes then got off and waited about 20 seconds for my sister - who met me, red and out of breath. The lift pings and we get in and go underground to catch the tube. From a (really far) distance, the tube is waiting with it's doors open - probably been there a while which means it's going to leave any second. So

We run..

Downhill - no idea why the ground is like that. I thought I'd fall and just roll all the way to the Oyster Touch in/out. I didn't though - yay!

Anyyywayy we got through that and I'm thinking I'll put my card away when I sit down so it saves time, I leave it in my hands and the 'Stand clear of the closing doors' sound comes on - my sister's inside and I just about make it - the doors were closing and I do like a slick slide through - double yay!

In that split second my hand grips slightly on my card and i hear a quick noise - SNAP.

I sit down and indeed my card has snapped - it's still joined together but I know if touched, even a little, it'll just break completely so i decide to wait until I get to the Touch system again but alas it doesn't work and the guy at the desk presses a button to let me out and I'm there for a good 15 seconds figuring out how to actually open the gate. It said 'Push' but I um was trying to push the wrong side.

Sigh.