The Stasi Strike (Again?)
October 25th, 2007 at 20:12
I thought today I’d have an easy blog entry. For some reason, Midland Mainline had decided to go on strike today – presumably in a bid to irritate commuters even more than usual. This has basically meant that all day they’ve have a more limited timetable, with only one (maybe two?) trains going up and down between London and Derby – and stopping at every stop along the way.
I thought the blog would be easy, as I’d just be able to moan about the horrendous conditions on board- how it was overcrowded (I got the first northbound train of the day) and how awful the passengers were. That sort of thing: a rant by numbers.
Unfortunately for me, though the trains were overcrowded, and shock horror, there was no “MM’s bar” catering, catching the train today was surprisingly painless. I got a seat both times – so I can’t really complain.
Sure, I could call the Stasi who were working ’scabs’, but that seems a bit cheap. And all of the foaming at the mouth calls for some Thatcherite union-busting I was doing last night seems a little mean, in retrospect.
The closest thing I’ve got that even begins to approach an anecdote is that on the way to university, I sat next to a businessman, wearing a business suit, with his business smart phone out. “No doubt doing some important business”, you’re probably thinking – peering over his shoulder revealed him to be playing some sort of golf game on his phone for the entire duration of the journey.
I, meanwhile, the unkempt young person, who you’d expect to be playing obnoxious ringtones because of my proximity to public transport, was actually reading The Economist (running gag: apparently they’re having trouble forming a coalition government in Argentina).
Told you it wasn’t a very good anecdote.
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