Train door ..
The national Danish rail company is currently "upgrading" their train sets to new ones made by some Italian company. In accordance with EU regulations, these were the cheapest solution offered -- ignoring the budget overruns, missed deadlines, and technical child diseases. Still, the trains are cheap in the respect that the Italian company probably couldn't have picked a cheaper grade of plastic for the interior ..

Anyway, I had the mixed pleasure of commuting home with one of these trains on a Friday a few months back. All went well until we reached my destination, a small station. The train came to a halt, waited for a minute or two, then departed for the next station. All the while I was hammering like a lunatic to make the Italian plastic button open the Italian plastic door like it was supposed to. The train was unmanned, apparently.

When we arrived at the next station, located in a larger town, I had located both the emergency brake and the handle for emergency opening of the door. Alas, a bit too late, but useful knowledge for the next time that the machinery fails.

In spite of both complaints and expletives, they wouldn't give me a taxi back to my town. Instead I had to spend half an hour waiting for the train back.

My petty revenge? I used the emergency opening to force open the door at my station. As far as I could tell, I delayed the train by at least five minutes. Ha! :^)
(spinoza, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:36, 9 replies)

And made everyone else on the train, who had done you no harm, late.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:45, closed)

Yeah ..
.. I'm aware of that. So I'm not really proud of it.

I guess the mature response would have been to do graffiti in the bathroom instead ..
(spinoza, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:50, closed)

That's more like it.
This is what I hate about the Megacorp age we live in - it's not anyone's fault when something goes wrong.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:00, closed)

as you typed that, your mouth was pursed as tight as dot cotton's dessicated fanny.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:01, closed)

this made me laugh

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:25, closed)

You've got dreadlocks.
Pffft.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:29, closed)

how is this relevant?

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:41, closed)

About as much as your silly (and quite funny) little comment above.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:44, closed)

oh, FINE then.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 16:42, closed)