F*cking nightmare of a bastard commute

[davesgcr]

0724 cancelled this am , previous train should be 8 cars , (was 4 - and has been for weeks) - 0733 therefore carrying 2+ train loads. Great start to a nice frosty morning. I could be retired ....

This evening - epic crush loading due to "trespassers on the line" - I feel a Meldrow moment. (home now - tommorrow is another day in "paradise")

 

[Zack Murray]

i chuckle imagining the sheer stress-induced breakdown it took for this man to collapse and eat a full meal in the subway (red line) last weekend

 

[Puddy_Tat]

balls-up on the line here.

might be worth setting off in half an hour or so.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Two days running my trains are running pretty much to time - there must be something wrong.

 

[Onket]

I don't know what time my train is supposed to get in but I've been in the office for 07:35 yesterday and 07:40 today so that's good enough.

I still need to put in my 'delay repay' claim for that proper delay the other week when my bike wheel got pinched. Should do it today really. In work time, obviously.

 

[Onket]

i chuckle imagining the sheer stress-induced breakdown it took for this man to collapse and eat a full meal in the subway (red line) last weekend

Looks like he's snorting it.

 

[High Voltage]

no more commutes for me till the new year - Hoorah!

On the down side they've stopped the travelling chef on the 6.39 service from Castle Cary to Paddington so, if I was still travelling to London I'd not be able to have my breakfast on the train any more and you could tell that they were running this service down as for the last couple of weeks the cooker that they used for frying eggs (2 eggs on toast (white) if you're interested) was broken so I had to resort to scrambled eggs on toast which could be cooked on a different piece of kit

*fist/sky oscillation interface

 

[Onket]

I don't think I've ever been on a train with a chef on it. The food has always been microwavable.

 

[High Voltage]

I found out that the difference between 1st and 2nd class on that train was less than £10 - so I made the middle management decision to upgrade myself to 1st class

 

[Puddy_Tat]

the 'live departures' feed needs an upgrade.

an interface with alarm clock would mean if the train service is completely buggered, it would let you have an extra hour in bed.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

another day, another large scale cock up on the transport front

 

[Onket]

Got tomorrow off. Quite pleased.

 

[Onket]

Must have left my book on the train the other day. Can't find it anywhere.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've got the whole carriage to myself at the moment. If only it'd stay like that.

 

[Onket]

It's because you smell.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Delayed this morning. Only the fast lines were open out of Manchester so we had to follow a local stopping service which held us up. No idea why the slow lines are closed.

 

[marty21]

4 carriages instead of 8 this morning, but I was a little late so the train wasn't too packed and i got a seat

 

[fractionMan]

3/4 hour late this morning

My commute will soon be a 20 minute cycle instead of an hour and a half train to london followed by the tube

 

[Onket]

3/4 hour late this morning

My commute will soon be a 20 minute cycle instead of an hour and a half train to london followed by the tube

Pint before you stop coming to Lahnden?

 

[fractionMan]

Pint before you stop coming to Lahnden?

I'm on my way home right now and I don't think I'll be back for a while. Next time I'm up I'll give you a prod, I think my new job may well send me to the big city once in a while

 

[fractionMan]

I think the most pissed I've ever been in london was with you

 

[Onket]

Excellent.

I promise not to take a photo of you at the urinal next time.

 

[fractionMan]

I'd forgotten about that

 

[Onket]

Bloke next to me is reading the Metro online on his tablet. If you had access to all the newspapers and magazines in the world, why would you read the Metro?!

 

[Onket]

He's now moved on to the Sun.

 

[StoneRoad]

Hope the gritters get here soon - the overnight snow / slush is making drivers go all over the place. (Live near road junction on a hill and watching is "entertaining" as even some 4wd jockeys don't know how to drive in snow !!)

 

[Epico]

Bloke next to me is reading the Metro online on his tablet. If you had access to all the newspapers and magazines in the world, why would you read the Metro?!

Did he leave his tablet on the seat for the next person? That seems to be the etiquette.

 

[kabbes]

Even given the current state of the transport system, I still cannot believe how many trains I have had cancelled, severely delayed or halved in length in the last 2-3 weeks. Pretty much every day there has been at least one of those things happening. What the fuck is going on?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Two annoying blokes just a couple of seats ahead of me - talking and laughing really loudly. Shut the fuck up you cunts.

 

[Dogsauce]

I am still unable to sit in a carriage on a single train journey (or on a coach) ever without someone having that fucking whistling text alert on their shit samsung phone going off several times a minute. It's always that one, I imagine because people who can't change the default text alert sound are the same ones who can't figure out how to put their phones on silent, and seem for some reason to be disproportionately Samsung owners. Don't know why it makes me feel so punchy, might be the similarity to the McDonalds jingle.