Tales from today's commute....

[spen666]

Horrendous hold up on my commute today. The cat was obstructing the stairs and preventing human traffic moving from the bedroom to the office
Edited after realising I had typed "car" instead of "cat"

 

[ianrauk]

Usual daily commute, nothing to really report apart from plenty of traffic this side of the Thames as usual.

My train is usually empty in the mornings and am able to use the bike space no problems.
This morning though, a few stops down the line a lady with pushchair/pram and youngster got on and sat in the wheel chair space opposite me. So between us we had taken all the space up. All good.
Another stop down the line another mother got on with a pushchair/pram and another youngster.
What the chances? In the 15 months I've being doing this commute its the first time 2 families got on the same space.
Anyhoo.. the second woman who got on decided to remark in a really snidey, loud way 'Oh there's a bike in the way (in the bike space) I suppose we'll have to stand! Whilst giving me daggers.
If she had asked nicely and/or politely or not said anything I would have moved my bike, no problems. But I didn't remove it because the shyte attitude.

 

[fossyant]

Usual daily commute, nothing to really report apart from plenty of traffic this side of the Thames as usual.

My train is usually empty in the mornings and am able to use the bike space no problems.
This morning though, a few stops down the line a lady with pushchair/pram and youngster got on and sat in the wheel chair space opposite me. So between us we had taken all the space up. All good.
Another stop down the line another mother got on with a pushchair/pram and another youngster.
What the chances? In the 15 months I've being doing this commute its the first time 2 families got on the same space.
Anyhoo.. the second woman who got on decided to remark in a really snidey, loud way 'Oh there's a bike in the way (in the bike space) I suppose we'll have to stand! Whilst giving me daggers.
If she had asked nicely and/or politely or not said anything I would have moved my bike, no problems. But I didn't remove it because the shyte attitude.

You'd never get a push bike or a blimmin pram on our trains. No room, standing only ! Reason for not paying the £10 to get to work.

 

[ianrauk]

You'd never get a push bike or a blimmin pram on our trains. No room, standing only ! Reason for not paying the £10 to get to work.

I have no choice unless I do a daily round trip of 54 miles.
As I have mentioned before in this thread, the train I get is not usually busy due to it being the slow stopping service. The fast train before is usually standing room only.

 

[HLaB]

A bit busy on the first leg of the commute tonight. Amazingly I got on and all the students wanted to stand together rather than taking the empty seats. They all got off at the next station and were replaced hy more students of the same ilk (standing together rather than sitting separately, even when more seats came availableat the next stop).

 

[Andy in Germany]

Had an "interesting" conversation with a lady on the train. She started by asking about the Brompton, nothing unusual. Then she asked what my job was.
I'm computer technicians and many other professions have a similar experience: when people hear what my job is, they start telling me their story.
Actually, that's not entirely true, most people go "what?" because almost no-one has heard of my job, but when they hear I work in Psychological health care they start asking questions on behalf of relatives or friends. In this case the lady was telling me her husband is an alcoholic and was asking what she could do.
This would have been fairly poignant and in other cases has led to some pretty intense conversations, but in this case... well, let's say I think there was a fair bit of projection going on: I don't think her partner was the only alcoholic in the relationship...