Written on 18.04.2011 (although don’t know when it will get uploaded lol as I’m not sure when I will have internet access. Using software called ‘live writer’ which apparently will let me publish it as soon as I have wifi :) so will have to see!)
6 am: Just woken up. Going to Preston to see the people I mentioned in my birthday post and to do some work while I’m up there. Train leaves Euston at 8am so will have to be there on time. Booked the tickets last minute so they were pricey – only standard class but even with my student railcard discount, it still cost £114 for two tickets.
8.15 am: Well thankfully the train didn’t leave at 8 (I am apparently incapable of reading!). Still yet to leave the house, in fact we are still packing. My mum still doesn’t grasp the concept that is you are travelling somewhere by train you have to carry everything you take. She’ll regret it later.
9.05 am: Finally left home! On a train to Liverpool Street :)
9.30 am: Used my trusty tube map app to work out how to get to Euston from Liverpool Street – it is an absolute Godsend, as helped me out of so many situations where I’ve been lost, lol!
9.35 am: Mum has decided we are only partially using the directions suggested by the app and we are now going to Euston Square and walking.
9.38 am: Apparently she didn’t realise we had to walk a bit. It’s not far but with the amount we are carrying, it’s her loss
9.39 am: She’s regretting the amount we bought with us…not gonna say I told ya’ so…
10.00 am: At Euston, and in plenty of time too!
10.02 am: They make you pay for the toilet! 30p. I know it’s not much, but it’s frustrating
10.03 am: Just had a man ask me to help him find 30 ‘cents’ amongst his handful of change, “ I don’t understand the coins you see” I love the American accent! :D
10.04 am: Eww you’d think that if you had to pay for the toilets they’d actually be clean. They are vile!
10.20 am: On the train to Preston now. It’s so busy, the ‘train manager’ reckons it’s because a lot of people came down for the marathon at the weekend.
10.30 am: Well they certainly don’t hang around, we are leaving dead on departure time
10.35 am: Was going to upload this blog but they charge £4 an hour for the internet. What a flpping cheek!
11.39 am: Ugh!!! Just opened my bottle of sparkling water. It seemed like such a smooth train journey but apparently not…it fizzed up and sprayed everybody within a two seat radius. I am currently sitting, covered in water, in the middle of a packed train. I am the definition of embarrassed :|
12.39 am: Train just pulled into the station and apparently the first thing I am doing is getting straight to work. Fun. But it’s all for a good cause, hopefully help me get a good grade.
Will probably do a blog post on my journey home on Wednesday xx
Showing posts with label overcrowing. Show all posts
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Monday, 18 April 2011
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London Transport
London Transport, Definition: Badly organised public service, resulting in discomfort and dispute between travellers.
I have just survived yet another uncomfortable Tube journey. I have this habit of blaming the company but I suppose it's not their fault. After all they can't always accurately estimate the sheer mass of commuters at any one time. Mind you, it would help if different lines didn't carry out maintenance at the same time, let alone all going on strike at the same time! If there is one thing I have learnt since using the London Transport system more frequently it's that 90% of travellers must have had manners bred out of them. Picture this: train reaches its final destination and you are standing at the front waiting to get off (of course letting the few people in front of you off first). However the people behind you always seem to have a different idea, you are pushed out of the way and people trample you. Now forgive me, dear reader, but both common sense and manners seem to have evaded these people YOU WILL NOT GET THERE ANY QUICKER!!! It is the ignorance of these people which results in overcrowding as they all wish to go first (nobody seems to have realised that if everybody goes at the same time, the queues mean that actually you get there 10x slower.
Oh well, as I write this post, I am sitting on a somewhat less crowded overground train (unusual but much more pleasant!) so I suppose I should stop complaining...for one day at least.
I have just survived yet another uncomfortable Tube journey. I have this habit of blaming the company but I suppose it's not their fault. After all they can't always accurately estimate the sheer mass of commuters at any one time. Mind you, it would help if different lines didn't carry out maintenance at the same time, let alone all going on strike at the same time! If there is one thing I have learnt since using the London Transport system more frequently it's that 90% of travellers must have had manners bred out of them. Picture this: train reaches its final destination and you are standing at the front waiting to get off (of course letting the few people in front of you off first). However the people behind you always seem to have a different idea, you are pushed out of the way and people trample you. Now forgive me, dear reader, but both common sense and manners seem to have evaded these people YOU WILL NOT GET THERE ANY QUICKER!!! It is the ignorance of these people which results in overcrowding as they all wish to go first (nobody seems to have realised that if everybody goes at the same time, the queues mean that actually you get there 10x slower.
Oh well, as I write this post, I am sitting on a somewhat less crowded overground train (unusual but much more pleasant!) so I suppose I should stop complaining...for one day at least.
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