Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Pulling in to Waterloo three minutes early, wtf???
F*cking nightmare of a bastard commute
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Fez909
toilet expert
I'm so pissed off that it's taken me this long to calm down enough to type this. First entry on this thread:
Left work about 6:30 (mistake #1), I think. Did a bit of shopping (mistake #2), then headed to the bus stop. I'm guessing it was about 7 oclock by now. Bus was going to be 25 minutes...wtf?!
I used the time to capture some portals on Ingress in the area near the bus stop then headed back with a few mins to spare. The sign had now changed to a timetable instead of "x minutes until bus", which isn't a good sign. It was another 15 minutes.
I waited the 15 and when it got to the time it was meant to come, it said, "10 mins until bus".
I'd now waited longer than it would have taken me to walk home, I was freezing, further away from home than before I left work, and had a shit load of shopping - 4 pints milk, litre of juice, tins of soup, kilo of flour, jars of Nutella, etc...heavy shit, in other words.
10 minutes came and passed and the bus thing just kept on resetting as if it had actually appeared. Eventually I'd been there an hour and it said, "Due to an accident you may experience delays". "MAY"? And one fucking hour you left it before telling us about this accident?
I set off walking
Took me about 40 mins to walk home. Arms nearly falling off. Hands freezing. I told a few people at bus stops as I passed about the delays as not all stops have the messaging system. They were grateful, and one was very sweet when I told her about my ordeal. She told me she knew about the accident but didn't think it would be a problem as it was at 10am.
10 o'lock and the buses aren't running at 8pm!?
About 20 "Not in service buses" passed me, too.
Absolute fucking cunts. And I still can't face making pancakes
Left work about 6:30 (mistake #1), I think. Did a bit of shopping (mistake #2), then headed to the bus stop. I'm guessing it was about 7 oclock by now. Bus was going to be 25 minutes...wtf?!
I used the time to capture some portals on Ingress in the area near the bus stop then headed back with a few mins to spare. The sign had now changed to a timetable instead of "x minutes until bus", which isn't a good sign. It was another 15 minutes.
I waited the 15 and when it got to the time it was meant to come, it said, "10 mins until bus".
I'd now waited longer than it would have taken me to walk home, I was freezing, further away from home than before I left work, and had a shit load of shopping - 4 pints milk, litre of juice, tins of soup, kilo of flour, jars of Nutella, etc...heavy shit, in other words.10 minutes came and passed and the bus thing just kept on resetting as if it had actually appeared. Eventually I'd been there an hour and it said, "Due to an accident you may experience delays". "MAY"?
And one fucking hour you left it before telling us about this accident?I set off walking
Took me about 40 mins to walk home. Arms nearly falling off. Hands freezing. I told a few people at bus stops as I passed about the delays as not all stops have the messaging system. They were grateful, and one was very sweet when I told her about my ordeal. She told me she knew about the accident but didn't think it would be a problem as it was at 10am.
10 o'lock and the buses aren't running at 8pm!?
About 20 "Not in service buses" passed me, too.
Absolute fucking cunts. And I still can't face making pancakes
ska invita
back on the other side
not on the same scale but at my station there are two trains - the one i want and another one that works but takes longer. If my train isnt running for some reason ill take the other.
what winds me up is exactly that, those digital boards saying the train will be there and then adding the expected time in 5 min increments - meanwhile a had anotehr train i could take but i let it go as supposedly my train will be here in 2 mins. and then it never comes. then 20 minutes later its cancelled and im really late for work
that happens a couple of times a month.
what winds me up is exactly that, those digital boards saying the train will be there and then adding the expected time in 5 min increments - meanwhile a had anotehr train i could take but i let it go as supposedly my train will be here in 2 mins. and then it never comes. then 20 minutes later its cancelled and im really late for work
that happens a couple of times a month.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
In a van today because I've been doing site work. If it wasn't bad enough not getting away from the office until five past nine at night following much pissing about dropping a colleague at the station, dashing to the courier depot the other side of town a mile from home, then all the way back to the office to drop off equipment, stick things back in the shed, clean crap out of the van, I then managed to come across four fucking road closures on my way home. It was like the powers that be were desperately trying to stop me getting home. Almost in tears at one point bellowing 'fucking life-thieves!' as I came across another set of cones blocking my way.
This was the cause of most of the nonsense:
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....ggers-traffic-chaos-in-leeds-latest-1-7111144
This was the cause of most of the nonsense:
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....ggers-traffic-chaos-in-leeds-latest-1-7111144
Mapped
London town
There'd better not be a massive population explosion in North East London tonight as I need a seat on the viccy line tomorrow. I have a powerpoint presentation that at the moment only exists in my manager's imagination and really needs to be shown to 'very important people' at 10am. That damn thing is getting done on the tube.
Fez909
toilet expert
So we both suffered due to this.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Last night got to Waterloo for the 1830 train to find a large crowd signifying delays. Went towards platform 14 to find the 1800 train about to leave 30 minutes late, so basically it left on time, plus didn't stop at Woking, so was empty 
sovereignb
Well-Known Member
Was it rude for me to ask someone to take their feet off the chair this morning??? I literally came and sat down opposite him and his feet were up on the chair next to me. I had seen soooo much spit on the floor walking down to the station. I also just think its just really bad manners. Am i considered rude?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Not rude. Would not have been rude had you removed said feet with an axe. Scumbag behaviour.
sovereignb
Well-Known Member
I know i had attitude in my voice though lol...i asked him straight out (after i had opened the window and made myself comfortable
) if he could move his feet. He had the audacity to ask "why" and I said "because they're not meant to be there". He moved them and grabbed his phone desperately, probably to broadcast to the world about some rude bastard on the train!`
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
I was going to get the Southern one before that and change at Leatherhead. No big deal, just save myself 15 minutes because I'd missed my normal direct train. But no, that service was delayed by 10 minutes, which would therefore miss the connection.
I saw then that the one after it was cancelled and did actually idly wonder who it would affect. Never thought the answer would be so quick in coming.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Got the earlier train so could crack on in the office, signal failure at Wimbledon made the train 15 minutes later, so arrived later than had I got the normal train and that was on time. Shower of shite.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
only had an oyster/contactless hassle today - couldn't get my pass as the oyster machine wasn't working - couldn't use my contactless either as the reader didn't recognise it - so had to go back and borrow mrs21's payg oyster to get in
other than that - no delays
other than that - no delays
Mapped
London town
Good and bad this morning. Bus came straight away, got a seat on the viccy line. Wrote an article on the tube, where I was supposed to change at Finsbury Park, but looked up and i was suddenly at Euston. Currently enduring a 6 min wait for the Northern Line at Warren Street....grrrr
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Bloke came and took the seat next to mine at Guildford, train shouldn't even stop at Guildford, I'm already on, it can go straight in to Waterloo, why do I need it stopping at Guildford??? He regretted it though cos I was in a well fidgety mood and could not keep still for more than about two minutes at a time. I suspect he's on some other part of the internet bemoaning the restless twat who stopped him getting any rest on his FNBC this morning.
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