Places that make you slightly tense...

[PeckhamRose]

Primark Peckham (Claire Dowie did an excellent show about it).

Packed busses when you hear more than one person sneezing.

Bus stop at Shopping Centre section of Elephant and Castle.

Hospital. Any hospital. Any department.

Parents house. (Elderly parents both nearing the end of their lives.)

[phobic3000]

Guitar shops in Denmark Street where the staff think they are rock gods.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

ARGOS, Rye Lane.

[MrBen]

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> ARGOS, Rye Lane.

Nothing a super strength bourbon hot chocolate from Lerryns cafe can't sort out HMB.

London generally keeps me on edge. The concentration of millions of very different people in one place and potential for confrontation in public places keeps my "fight or flight" thingy on Amber ...versus say living in Oban, Scotland.

[DulwichFox]

Public Transport especially Buses. Hate them... I get really wound up.

DulwichFox

[indiepanda]

I can think of plenty of places that make me slightly tense... it's just I can think of a good reason for all of them.

I think the place that makes me most tense is my office though... sign I need to get a new job!!!

[BrandNewGuy]

Service stations

Petrol tstaions at night

Leicester Square

Charing Cross Station concourse

The Beehive in Brixton

[maxxi]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Barnes. Good one Maxxi!

>

> BUT...I happen to like the footbridge at Clapham

> Junction station as it's the spacious above ground

> slightly more low key cousin of the

> claustrophobic, cess pit of a tunnel to the main

> entrance.

>

> Odd isn't it?

I like it when it's empty - between rushes - and I'm idling the time away with a coffee, waiting for a connection; it's the sudden cattle-stampede of several arriving trainloads that makes the whole structure shake and rumble - feels quite Hitchcockian.

Don't mind the fetid subways so much - even when crowded.

Another addition to the slightly tense list though - The Barbican. Not the flats or walkways or weird outside bits but the arts centre itself.

[holloway]

Elephant & castle, especially the underpasses. Although this isn't really an irrational tenseness as the absence of working cctv and poor lighting create a very real risk of mugging. I shudder thinking back to when I staggered pissed through there when I commuted to North London...