Respect Authority

A Bowl of Cheerio is London Correspondent PJ’s regular column about his experiences as a lifelong New Yorker, born and raised on good American values like reality TV, pop music and gin, in jolly ole’ London. PJ isn’t officially our “London Correspondent,” but he’s taken it upon himself to both live among Brits AND attend acting school, thereby ensuring a bounty of witty commentary. A Bowl of Cheerio will appear every Monday, with other contributions in between since we all know the British do whatever they want (just look at Prince Charles.)

Check out my fortress of solitude:

New Hotness

Now check out what I used to take:

Old and Busted?

Between the two, it’s hard to choose which one I prefer, until you put me in the front seat on the second level of a double decker bus. Then it’s a landslide, London wins. If this were Transformers, and they could reassemble their parts to create mega-robots that battle to the death, I think it would be an even draw. But I have yet to witness this.
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