You’re a grown woman and in no other area of your life do you feel so vulnerable. You resent it even though you understand there is a risk - however small. It is frustrating and tiring and constant. And yet sometimes, despite all those calculations, it still isn’t enough.
Even being on the phone has downsides. One eye is always on the person in front or behind - would they help me, might they be a threat? Should I cross the road, would that make it worse? Are there lights on in any of these houses if I need to pretend this is where I live?
Tell friends ‘it’s fine, it’s just around the corner, I’ll text when I’m back’ …but still we make a plan - Keys gripped between fingers we map the corner shops we could duck into en-route. Swap shoes for trainers in case we need to run. Keep our music low or turned off.
What happened to Sarah Everard has hit home hard for so many women because we make the calculations she did every day too. We take the longer, better-lit route, push the fear aside for the voice that says ‘don't be daft, you've every right to walk home alone at night and be safe’
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@VirginHolidays Still getting no where, no one seems to know why I’ve only had a partial refund! Whole reason we booked our holiday of a lifetime with you was due to your customer experience - how bloody wrong were we! Ignored emails & phone now won’t even put on hold! #letdown
Spoke to @VirginHolidays again but they can’t help as it’s the cruise team - even though my holiday was booked through Virgin Holidays! Can’t speak to the cruise team as there is no number, have to email - needless to say they don’t respond!! @MartinSLewis@WhichUK#fedup
The saga continues @VirginHolidays have refunded £2900 of our £7000 holiday but said they were issuing future cruise credit & holiday vouchers! No idea how they came to decide what amount to refund! No one seems to know what’s going on! @WhichUK@MartinSLewis
The saga continues @VirginHolidays have refunded £2900 of our £7000 holiday but said they were issuing future cruise credit & holiday vouchers! No idea how they came to decide what amount to refund! No one seems to know what’s going on! @WhichUK@MartinSLewis
Logging into online banking for the 25th time in an hour - still no refund from @VirginHolidays They cancelled our holiday of a lifetime back in March! Even confirmed they were refunding by email weeks ago!! @WhichUK@MartinSLewis#justwantarefund
Logging into online banking for the 25th time in an hour - still no refund from @VirginHolidays They cancelled our holiday of a lifetime back in March! Even confirmed they were refunding by email weeks ago!! @WhichUK@MartinSLewis#justwantarefund
@layzspa have obviously given up with their queue count down! Was sat at 1 minute for 45 mins this morning! Gave up in the end! Still no luck! #IJustWantALayZSpa