That sounds like a story.
Continue.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:10, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

It's not very exciting now
although it was at the time. And terrifying.
I'd gone up to Aberdeen to visit a friend, was due to change at Edinburgh Haymarket (the little train station) but they changed the platform my connecting train was going from and I didn't hear the announcement until just as it was about to leave...
I was told there probably wasn't another train until the next day but to go up to Waverley (the main station) to check, and lo, there wasn't. They ended up putting a sleeper carriage on the Royal Mail train to get me home, but not before the hard nosed cunt in the ticket office terrified me to tears by threatening me for missing my train and trying to charge me for a sleeper ticket. I had to wait in the passenger lounge for 6 and a half bastard hours with no money, no food and only one book which I'd already read. They did give me some free squash though, probably because they felt bad for making me cry.
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:16, Reply)

free squash is good!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:17, Reply)

Well, it was better than nothing
but it really wasn't worth hanging around Edinburgh train station for nearly 7 hours for...
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:20, Reply)

Oh, poor you!
That bitch! Only some squash in 6h? That must have been not only scary, but I bet you were starving.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:26, Reply)

By the time I got home
which was about 4am, I was so hungry I felt faint. I hadn't had anything to eat for about 15 hours by that point, and only about 2 hours sleep.
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:32, Reply)

Wow!
I hope you or your mum complained!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:34, Reply)

No...
they weren't under any obligation to feed me or even to get me home. I would have had to stay there all night - not that I could have done, as the passenger lounge wasn't open 24 hours - if they hadn't put a sleeper carriage on the mail train for me.
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:37, Reply)

No, of course they didn't have to feed you
They didn't have to make you cry, either
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:44, Reply)

To be honest, whilst one obviously has to feel sorry for the 14-year old berk's plight
That does tick a box for nearly every unpleasant stereotype every attributed to the Scottish.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 18:01, Reply)