Public Transport TraumaCompletely Underwhelmed writes, "I was on a bus the other day when a man got on wearing shorts, over what looked like greeny grey leggings. Then the stench hit me. The 'leggings' were a mass of open wounds, crusted with greenish solidified pus that flaked off in bits as he moved."
What's the worst public transport experience you've ever had?
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chthonic, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:13)
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Iarnrod Eireann......the Irish equivalent of the old British Rail ... some of their new lines/rolling stock are absolutely fine but some of the old stuff is a minging embarrassment ... just over five months ago i had to hop a train from Dublin to Clara ... left Dublin okay then after less than ten minutes of slow rumbling through the city the train stopped ... no announcement, no explanation, and no electricity - the lights went out ... and there we sat for, ooh, 30 minutes, baffled
then the train juddered forward and off we went again ... (with the lights back on) ... needed a pee so went to the toilet at the end of the carriage ... blocked with shit, foul, stinking, hideous ... turned on my heel, walked back through the carriage to use the other nearest loo ... also blocked, foul, stinking, hideous ... had to pee in it anyway
since the train had come in from Galway (?) to Dublin then headed back out again, I think it meant a particularly shitty run into the capital and no time for cleaning (Galwegians, lovely people, full of shite tho')
eventually we got to Clara over half an hour late (a pain since someone was collecting me) ... and for those who have never been Clara is a bit of a one-horse station at a one-horse village in the wilds of Co Offaly ... I was the only person who got off (in a dark December evening) ... I walked the length of the platform (empty), tried the ticket office (empty), the car park (empty) and finally found an Iarnrod Eireann staff member who helpfully said, "Now are you sure you've got off at the right station?" ... fortunately the lift arrived a few minutes later but until then Clara station had all the charm of a scene from Night of the Demon ...
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writerblock ... embedding disabled by request on, Fri 30 May 2008, 17:57,
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Westport - DublinThis winter I was heading back to college on a lovely train, the heating was broken, it was very full and my seat had some weird water falling from the roof. Fuckers, it was on Joe Duffy the next day.
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