And having stood through many a long journey in a train corridor over the years, it's one that also makes my blood boil.
Lavery's, equally close to the Shankill Road (Protestant) and the Falls Road (Catholic), is unusual for having stood through the Troubles.
You don't know queues until you've stood through the hottest hours on the hottest day in a shadeless car park in Texas, all for a sandwich.
Setting a pattern that he said had stood through all of his subsequent encounters with Britain's leaders, he treated it as a social occasion, a chance to get to know somebody who was making a mark.
I thought about the years of noodling Brooklyn bands and avant-garde Montreal noisemakers I have stood through, and how not one of them has a song that makes me want to lay down my weapons like Crystal Ball does when a room full of people are singing along to it.
Mr Spiers said the cost of repairs was a "long-term worry", but the property had 2ft (0.6m) thick walls and had stood through many floods.
Engineers have stated that it is unlikely many buildings would have stood through any kind of disaster.
The effect has stood up through repeated experiments.
Yet, he felt, despite enemy control of New York City and environs "the rest of that province has stood immovable, through war... and increases in zeal and unanimity every year".
