I guess you couldn't help the train in front of us "breaking down" while we were stopped at Sydenham this morning.
But then announcing we had to all walk to platform three was a bit annoying - isn't there any points outside the station to switch across to another track? So, along the platform, up the stairs and down to platform three me and a thousand or so other people go. Me with shaky knees and all.
All on platform three, the first train there is full and we won't all fit. Probably not much could been done about that, but the announcement board says next train in two minutes so who really minds that. Along platform three we go.
Then the announcement board says 26 minutes. We look across to platform 5 where we came from to see out train, empty, heading off towards the city.
Thanks for not letting us know the "breakdown" no longer applied and we should go back to get our train.
Up from three we go to the top, thanks for your staff's unhelpful attitude. Oh well, they hate their job, down platform five we go again. There's a train coming by now.
Thanks for not holding that train for us as we all rush down to get it, even though it's nowhere near full.
Thanks for the same platform guard who sent an entire train-load of people away not thinking that they might want to get back on the first possible train now that they are working again. Thanks to him for saying "I didn't close the doors" to our protests when we had all seen him holding up his flag (indicating to the on-train guard he could go). Thanks to him for trying to tell us our original train hadn't actually proceeded to the city, when several hundred of us had seen it had.
Come on, bring it, we just love being treated like this.
No wonder I enjoy cycling to work so much more. People who think riding is too stressful compared to ShittyRail have no idea.
Can't wait for this super-busy week to be over and I've decided to cycle even more than my 1-2 day average recently.