bringbackcrouc
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- Joined
- 2 Feb 2010
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I’m finding myself getting disproportionately irritated about small annoyances on trains. For example, I find my trip is completely ruined if any of the following occur:
1) Closest toilets not working
2) No buffet car
3) Reservations not downloaded
4) Air conditioning not working
5) Train is in reverse formation
6) No knobbly things on the top of chairs to hold onto
7) No tea trolley
8) Stopping seemingly randomly
9) Job titles: ‘train manager’ instead of ‘conductor’. ‘Host’ instead of ‘barman’ or ‘shop keeper’
10) Overfamiliarity, I don’t want my journey to be ‘awesome’. I don’t care that your name is Tim.
11) Speakers for train announcements being impossible to hear or crackly
12) Incessant announcements
Have I missed anything? Am I being wholly unreasonable and unBritish in being vexed by these trivial annoyances. Or do they genuinely matter? Rail Travel is meant to be a high end service as well as being a public good.
1) Closest toilets not working
2) No buffet car
3) Reservations not downloaded
4) Air conditioning not working
5) Train is in reverse formation
6) No knobbly things on the top of chairs to hold onto
7) No tea trolley
8) Stopping seemingly randomly
9) Job titles: ‘train manager’ instead of ‘conductor’. ‘Host’ instead of ‘barman’ or ‘shop keeper’
10) Overfamiliarity, I don’t want my journey to be ‘awesome’. I don’t care that your name is Tim.
11) Speakers for train announcements being impossible to hear or crackly
12) Incessant announcements
Have I missed anything? Am I being wholly unreasonable and unBritish in being vexed by these trivial annoyances. Or do they genuinely matter? Rail Travel is meant to be a high end service as well as being a public good.