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  • Thank you for DOUBLING my train journey

    I've been away for a while, I've just come back from a fantastic break abroad in the Canary Islands, I was sad to come back, especially considering half the UK is several feet under water at the minute.

    Arrived back in the UK at 2am, and I had an hour to wait for my train home. The train finally arrived, and I got on, preparing for a two and a half hour journey. The way it was timed, I was supposed to arrive back home at 6am.

    So, we leave Manchester, and everything is good. Until the train suddenly comes to a grinding hault about twenty minutes into the journey. Two conductors run down the train, and all I hear is:

    Conductor 1: He's making a right scene, he's on the wrong train and needs to get to the airport.
    Conductor 2: We're going to have to go back aren't we?

    So, the train sat there completely still for about twenty minutes, then went BACK to Manchester!

    Apparently some dumb SC got on the wrong train, then started kicking up a fuss because he had a flight to catch. For some reason, our train driver had no backbone whatsoever, so he took the SC back to Manchester!

    To make things worse, when we got back to Manchester, our track was no longer clear! We had to wait another HOUR to get out of the city and underway!

    So I would like to thank that customer for turning my two and a half hour journey into FOUR and a half hours, which was longer than my FLIGHT!

    And please, train drivers of the UK, grow a backbone, because if you had carried on instead of going back, you would have only had one pissed off idiot. Instead you went back and had about one hundred people pissed off at you.

  • #2
    That's terrible. I would write them a letter concerning this. There is no reason to inconvience an entire train full of passengers because of one person's idiocy.

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    • #3
      Are you kidding me? If I had been on that train I'd have started a mutiny if I heard that's what they were doing.
      How was I supposed to know someone was slipping you Birth Control in the food I've been making for you lately?

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      • #4
        It certainly deserves a letter, probably a call to http://www.passengerfocus.org.uk/ as well.
        "I can tell her you're all tied up in the projection room." Sunset Boulevard.

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        • #5
          That's got to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

          Did the conductors really believe that there was no one else on the entire train that needed to be at their destination at a certain time? No other passenger's time is as valuable as that of the asshat who can't get on the right train?

          Write a letter.

          If you have to ask, it's probably better posted at www.fratching.com

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          • #6
            I would have tossed his sorry butt off the train when it stopped. Problem solved.
            A fact of life: After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F.....

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            • #7
              Quoth IT Grunt View Post
              I would have tossed his sorry butt off the train when it stopped. Problem solved.
              Hell yeah. I mean, Britain's not that big of an island to trek across, is it? I mean, the Romans didnt seem to have much of a problem taking over two-thirds of it from north to south.

              And they didnt even have cars or trains back then.

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              • #8
                WTF?! So he got on the train heading From the airport instead to To the airport? From what I remember that is a pretty difficult thing to do. I've gotten on the wrong train From the airport before, but that was my stupidity.

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                • #9


                  Wow. I wish I had the power to inconvenience hundreds of people like that
                  Unseen but seeing
                  oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
                  There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
                  3rd shift needs love, too
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                  • #10
                    Quoth IT Grunt View Post
                    I would have tossed his sorry butt off the train when it stopped. Problem solved.

                    STOPPED?? Whatever for? Open door, boot to ass. Problem solved.
                    GFY

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                    • #11
                      Quoth MiloMorai View Post
                      STOPPED?? Whatever for? Open door, boot to ass. Problem solved.
                      Just adhering to the rule regarding violence towards SC's. Although that was my first thought.
                      A fact of life: After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F.....

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