Vix0r
I'm not talking about folks who just have to get their annual ticket and it takes a long time, though that is annoying it's not their fault, it's the stations, they should have a separate booth for lengthier interactions, what pisses me off is folks who decide now would be a good time to have long chat about something, regardless of how many folks are waiting behind them.

The other day a young student girl I was unfortunate to get directly in front of me 10 minutes before my train was due (having been to the machines that didn't work and eventually given up and joined the huge queue) went over every detail of a hypothetical ticket she might possibly buy one day, if she might possibly go somewhere far away, and went through every possible scenario, even the likelihood of internet access and what discounts might be available and so on and so on, for a full 5 minutes or more, making me miss my train and need to catch the next one.

She even, once she finally shut the fuck up and got her ticket to Doncaster, which co-incidentally was also where I wanted to be so she'd actually talked her way to missing her train too, then leisurely spent at least another 10-20 seconds thanking the ticket clerk, giggling and sorting out her bags at the front of the queue, by which time I'd had enough and just pushed her bags out my way with my foot and with a very firm 'EXCUSE ME!' made my way to the counter.

Once she'd gone, having given me the filthiest of how very dare you looks of course, while I was waiting for my tickets to print, the bloke behind me gave me a smile and said he wished I'd done that earlier.

Some people are just in a world of their own...
( ..wil, Sun 4 May 2008, 15:46, Reply)