Lunchtime wastage
Apr. 30th, 2003 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI went out at lunchtime to sort out transport to The Lake District.
Mum and Dad are down there on holiday for 2 weeks, so I'm dropping in from the 22nd to the 27th to see how they're getting on, hug the dog and maybe run up a few mountains.
Anyway, I wandered down to the train station at lunchtime, dragging Stephen with so that I had some company. My brain wasn't working at all, so I wandered to the toilet and then checked the exact date/location I was getting a train to before I even thought of picking up a ticket for the ticket queue. Thankfully, Stephen's brain was working better than mine and he grabbed one while I was still chatting on the phone, meaning we only had a 15 minute wait to be seen.
I finally got to the front of the queue, only to discover that the strike on the Tuesday/Wednesday means that I can't travel back by train. Of course, the website says "The scale of disruption is still unknown." which is terribly helpful, apparently you have to spend your lunch standing in a queue to find out you can't actually use the train service.
We then wandered back, snagging lunch at Sainsburies. I wasted 10 minutes of Stephen's flexitime and got nothing useful done.
It looks like I'll be catching a bus to Penrith... at 6:45 in the morning!
Tomorrow, I hope, my brain will be working better and I'll be able to get things done...
Mum and Dad are down there on holiday for 2 weeks, so I'm dropping in from the 22nd to the 27th to see how they're getting on, hug the dog and maybe run up a few mountains.
Anyway, I wandered down to the train station at lunchtime, dragging Stephen with so that I had some company. My brain wasn't working at all, so I wandered to the toilet and then checked the exact date/location I was getting a train to before I even thought of picking up a ticket for the ticket queue. Thankfully, Stephen's brain was working better than mine and he grabbed one while I was still chatting on the phone, meaning we only had a 15 minute wait to be seen.
I finally got to the front of the queue, only to discover that the strike on the Tuesday/Wednesday means that I can't travel back by train. Of course, the website says "The scale of disruption is still unknown." which is terribly helpful, apparently you have to spend your lunch standing in a queue to find out you can't actually use the train service.
We then wandered back, snagging lunch at Sainsburies. I wasted 10 minutes of Stephen's flexitime and got nothing useful done.
It looks like I'll be catching a bus to Penrith... at 6:45 in the morning!
Tomorrow, I hope, my brain will be working better and I'll be able to get things done...
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Date: 2003-04-30 05:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-30 06:03 am (UTC)You poor, poor bastard.
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Date: 2003-04-30 06:38 am (UTC)You'd like him - I'll have to see if I can get the two of you in one place at some point.
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Date: 2003-04-30 06:44 am (UTC)I thought he had typed all that, I was about to explain how I lived with you for far too long. ;)
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Date: 2003-04-30 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-30 03:29 pm (UTC)Take his keyboard - wear gloves, incidentally. But you prolly knew that.
Turn it upside down.
You get 5 point for each kind of food there - toast, seafood, etc. You get 3 points for each hair. 2 points for items of stationery. And 10 points for every breakaway Russian republic.
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Date: 2003-05-02 04:13 pm (UTC)You actually went to the train station to buy a ticket?
The only time I ever do that is when I'm going to Stirling, otherwise I go to http:\\www.thetrainline.com or http:\\www.virgintrains.co.uk
Tch, and I thought you were a true geek :-)
Re: You actually went to the train station to buy a ticket?
Date: 2003-05-01 12:10 am (UTC)I've now bought train tickets down and coach tickets back - over the internet.