F*cking nightmare of a bastard commute

[tommers]

Nah, if you need salt to make a drink palatable then something's wrong.

I'm sure the beach bar would have quite the selection anyway.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I don't think I can get compensation for the actual journey because I have a season ticket, or some such nonsense.

They probably won't pay the taxi but I genuinely had no option other than to walk for 10 miles. They really are a bunch of gangsters.

They tell us that it is because of a broken down train like that's an actual excuse. It's their fucking rolling stock!

For season tickets you do get compensation for delays over the set threshhold - I think the threshhold varies depending on the journey length normally. This is in addition to any void day scheme in operation on the actual cost of the season ticket.

So if I travelled Manchester-London, I'd be entitled to compensation if it was 30 minutes or more late if I remember rightly. They then work it out based on your season ticket, and unsurprisingly use a formula which is to their advantage. I've not checked for a while, but I think it is something like a simple substraction of weekend days and they then assume that the holder travels every weekday, so about 260 days. So cost of season ticket / 260 = fuck all. And to add insult to injury the usually insist on paying it in bloody rail vouchers.

 

[tommers]

Oh I forgot the best bit of tonight's commute: the posh kids at clapham junction. Tottering about in their high heels like doe-eyed little fawns just out of their mummies' tummies.

"It doesn't even FEEL like London any more!"

Its the busiest station in London and its in zone 2 you bellends.

 

[Onket]

I'm sorry but I can't get angry about 'doe-eyed little fawns in high heels'. They are to be encouraged.

 

[tommers]

I'm sorry but I can't get angry about 'doe-eyed little fawns in high heels'. They are to be encouraged.

When I said they were the best bit I meant it. I wasn't being sarcastic. They made me laugh.

 

[Onket]

Do a Stanley Edwards and get photos?

 

[tommers]

Do a Stanley Edwards and get photos?

Clapham Junction at 6pm isn't the time or place for photos.

And it would have been a bit creep.... Oh right.

 

[Onket]

Stuck at a red signal because we're following a stationary service at Burgess Hill.

 

[Onket]

Now been announced as a signal failure at Burgess Hill.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Stuck at a red signal because we're following a stationary service at Burgess Hill.

How can you follow a stopped train?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Rolled out of bed at 0855 and went in to the room next door and fired up the puter. Fucking dream of a working-from-home commute

 

[5t3IIa]

Rolled out of bed at 0855 and went in to the room next door and fired up the puter. Fucking dream of a working-from-home commute

You had a bacon sammich delivery offered? "No thanks, I'm all baconned out"

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

You had a bacon sammich delivery offered? "No thanks, I'm all baconned out"

She's nipped out to Sainsbury's for crusty rolls and apple-smoked bacon

 

[Dogsauce]

Driving around various National Grid sites in the North West yesterday, finishing in New Mills which is in the arse end of nowhere, having just made it before it got dark despite the best efforts of the school run, stopping buses and old people in Micras wearing speed-retarding hats.

I took Woodhead Road home to Leeds, a hilly route over the peak district/Pennines rather attempt the longer and bullshit-filled drive via the M62. Piss wet everywhere, lots of big puddles (I'd hasten to describe them as floods) Came over Holme Moss (as seen on the tdf day 2 earlier in the year) in clouds and low visibility, and as I came down the other side and out of the clouds nearly ploughed straight into a landslip across about a third of the road. Glad I wasn't pelting along or that the clouds weren't lower. Full beam on a Kia Cee'd (hire car for the day) is a bit shit too, but just enough warning to swerve round and bump over a bit of soil/rock that had spread into the other lane.

 

[Onket]

How can you follow a stopped train?

We were stopped too.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

We were stopped too.

So you were both parked on the line, rather than following the train as in trundling down the track behind the other train also trundling ahead of you.

 

[Onket]

I didn't make the announcement, but in any event it's not difficult to understand.

 

[Onket]

Train very quiet today.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Train very quiet today.

You'll probably have a good week as loads of people will be off. Hope the engineering works aren't affecting your line - that was one of the reasons why I booked these two weeks off as I really can't be arsed with loads of delays.

 

[Onket]

They're concentrating on London Bridge and I get the Victoria train so hopefully should be ok.

Couldn't book this week as well as between Christmas and New Year and coming in then isn't really an option.

Hope you enjoy your time off.

 

[kabbes]

I'm also now off until 5 January. I really feel I need it -- it's been brutal for the last 6 weeks at least.

Hurray for Holidaymas!

 

[Puddy_Tat]

physically unable to get on train at clapham junction as too full (i usually get the train 5 minutes earlier that twickenham-ites won't get and change on to the reading train at twickenham, but was late leaving work)

on the following train which has broke down at richmond and nothing can pass it.

aaaaaaaaargh.

 

[Onket]

Unlucky.

I'm back to travelling through Clapham Junction twice a day on Wednesday.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Was a bit late getting home tonight - emergency engineering works at Tiverton Parkway, wherever that actually is, buggering up the rest of the line. A train pulled into New Street, then promptly cancelled without them telling us on the platform, then replatformed twice. I helped a woman in her 80s with her bags as she was struggling with them sending us back and forth. I had almost forgotten the joys of rail travel.

 

[Pickman's model]

the bus was swift and only 3/4 full on the top deck.

 

[Boppity]

I've recently started commuting into Manchester for work.

I. Hate. It.

I was in London over the weekend and I literally wouldn't be able to cope living there and commuting.

 

[kabbes]

I was in London over the weekend and I literally wouldn't be able to cope living there and commuting.

Living there and commuting wouldn't be so bad -- just the tube and no trains. You want to try not living there and commuting.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've recently started commuting into Manchester for work.

I. Hate. It.

I was in London over the weekend and I literally wouldn't be able to cope living there and commuting.

It's about an hour on the train for you isn't it? Depends on how far you've got to travel to get to Lime Street or another station on the line I suppose. I've no idea what the train service is like on that route - wouldn't surprise me if it's rammed all the time.

Re London though - it always made me laugh when I used to commute from Manchester when I got on the tube at Euston in winter and the natives were wrapped up like Eskimos, when I wasn't even wearing a coat. Bless the soft southerners.

 

[kabbes]

Being soft is a good thing. It shows you have a nice, easy life. Who wouldn't want that?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Being soft is a good thing. It shows you have a nice, easy life. Who wouldn't want that?

It also means you have to spend more money on clothes to keep warm.