A foolish anecdote
Apr. 15th, 2002 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fluffymarkYesterday I was doing a lot of traveling. I had a ticket allowing unlimited train travel between Stratford, Warwick, Leamington and London. Got to Stratford station and found a sign saying there would be no trains running that day between the stations of (yes, you guessed it) Stratford, Warwick, Leamington and London. The entirely validity of my ticket in other words. They could have informed me of this fact when I bought the ticket!!! I was a tad annoyed.
Later in the day, I was trying to get from Warwick to Bicester (where the trains were running to London from). I waited outside Warwick station, and sure enough, bang on time the rail replacement bus arrived and I got on, along with a load other other people. Bus set off. About 10 minutes late the bus arrives at Warwick parkway station. Alerted by knowing this lies on the wrong end of Warwick for travel to Bicester I finally got around to asking the driver 'Where is this bs going?' to which I got the reply 'Birmingham'. I felt a fool! I'd gotten on the bus going the wrong way! Fortunately at that moment a bus pulled up behind us that was going the other way, so I quickly transferred buses. Feeling like a total prat as I did so. But then I looked back at the bus I was on, and found that virtually everyone else on the bus was also swapping buses! They had all gotten on the wrong bus too!! That made me feel a whole lot better. If I hadn't asked that question the whole busload of fools would have ended up in Birmingham!! *giggle*
Later in the day, I was trying to get from Warwick to Bicester (where the trains were running to London from). I waited outside Warwick station, and sure enough, bang on time the rail replacement bus arrived and I got on, along with a load other other people. Bus set off. About 10 minutes late the bus arrives at Warwick parkway station. Alerted by knowing this lies on the wrong end of Warwick for travel to Bicester I finally got around to asking the driver 'Where is this bs going?' to which I got the reply 'Birmingham'. I felt a fool! I'd gotten on the bus going the wrong way! Fortunately at that moment a bus pulled up behind us that was going the other way, so I quickly transferred buses. Feeling like a total prat as I did so. But then I looked back at the bus I was on, and found that virtually everyone else on the bus was also swapping buses! They had all gotten on the wrong bus too!! That made me feel a whole lot better. If I hadn't asked that question the whole busload of fools would have ended up in Birmingham!! *giggle*
