27 Jan 2007
If today happened to someone else and I was just watching it, it would have been a lot funnier....
Work was interesting. I was in charge of preparing some old computers for a new life. All of the machines had their own unique issues which gave me lots of support practice but that wasn't really where the day got goofy.
After work I was to meet with a group of fellow students and walk to the Eutsus Train Station ...on the way it started to rain. So we brisk walked/ran the remaining 5 blocks to the train station. After we arrived we got into the que and waited in line..and when we got to the front of the line found out we were in the wrong line. We were redirected to a line in the next room which was three times as long and 10x as slow as the previous one. When we finally made it to the front of the line to purchase our tickets we totally confused the ticket agent with the name of the town we wanted to visit and after all the confusion learned that we cannot even take a train all the way to the town we want to visit. When we finally got on the same page with the ticket guy we learned that the tickets would cost 3 times what we expected so for all that hassle we didn't even buy any tickets.
Instead of trudging back through the streets of London in the rain we decided to go with discount transportation...the city bus. Just as we arrived at the bus stop and translated the sign to determine which bus we wanted to take ..that bus drove off. So we waited around for about 10 minutes and another bus on that line and got on. Despite what the sign said, this bus didn't take us towards the study centre, it took us away. And after about a 15 minute ride, the bus turned off the lights, let us out and went out of service. Luckily we were at an underground station...unfortunately we were now in zone 3. So we had to take the underground. In our haste to get back to our neighborhood we boarded the first train on the northern line. Luckily I was paying attention because we didn't get on the right one. The underground took us back to the train station that we had bussed from earlier and we had to switch trains to the other line. And finally we made it home. It was an ordeal.
So that was my day...Sorry my writing probably dragged on and on..but well..that's sort of how thd day went too.
Have a good night...
~Jenn
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
That's inevitable when you're learning a public transportation system. Stay off the last train car if you can. You should watch a big American film for me there and soak up the derision from the crowd. I think it would be cool to see that from a foreign perspective.
If you had that much trouble just imagine me. I would still be on the train trying to get back home.
Post a Comment