20 Problems You'll Only Encounter On The Tyne & Wear Metro

4. Ignoring-The-Buskers Guilt

You probably should throw some change their way some day - not for their music, god no, but for being the strangest characters that populate your day. You don't know how you'd face walking through Monument without hearing Dave Fudge doing Wonderwall again, or Haymarket without seeing the old man singing his Primary School assembly songs. "Keep Me Travelling Along With You" was a belter back in Year 4. Sadly it seems as though the best buskers actually operate on street-level; Awesome Bass Guy is a prime example.

3. Escalators

They're fine once you get used to them as long as you follow one crucial rule - NEVER look behind you on the big Haymarket escalator. Everything got way too trippy since they put all the shiny new walls in. It feels like falling through a wormhole.