Like most Londoners who don't have their own helicopter and pilot to fly them to the office every morning I am forced to use the wonder that is London's Public Transport to make my way into my underpaid job.

Stepping onto a bus or train is like stepping into a parallel universe where common courtesy is thrown out of the window, where the use of deodorant is forbidden and where hiding behind a newspaper to ignore the beggars and pregnant passengers looking to take your money or God forbid your seat is common place.

During the dead time between home and work and back again I occupy my myself by listening to podcast, watching vidcasts or playing on one of my handheld consoles. These little gadgets often end up making my commutes bearable as I know I have 25 minutes (no delays) or a couple of hours (with delays) of uninterrupted gaming bliss. Even when the driver of the train announces a delay over the faulty intercom due to a single decaying leaf having derailed the 600 tonne train ahead I still manage a smile as all it means is a bit more time to relax.

On today journey back home I opted for the combination of music being channelled to my ears via my ipod and a court room drama on my DS Lite called Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. With each stop the train made the number of commuters slowly started to increase and so did the stares I was receiving.

The sight of a man, for that is what I now am apparently, playing on a handheld on a train is not that uncommon nowadays so I thought nothing of it at the time. I carried on bobbing my head to the beat and reading and tapping the screen on my DS to prompt the next bit of text to read. I look up again a few stops further down and now the number of eyes looking my way had increased, still I was not concerned.

Then as the level of ambient noise was suddenly reduced, the train pulled into a station and I was also between tracks on my ipod playlist, I heard a loud shout ... "OBJECTION"!

The sound had emanated from my DS Lite as my character was objecting to flaws in the prosecution's case. I had just spent the last 30 minutes on a commuter train with the volume on my DS set to maximum and the whole carriage was now privy to my virtual court case.

I hope I don't get disbarred!

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