What A Day!

Train & Rainy Window

We’ve all had them, sure!  No worse when they happen to you than when they happen to someone else, but, still, frustrating!  Yesterday was one of those days.  Here is the message I was typing up to put on Facebook when I found I had no internet access:

“Errrggghhh!!!!   20 min train ride & I have left my book at home. Can I just look out the window & enjoy the scenery or must I sit here & stew because of the book & the fact that I had to run to catch the train & I dressed in too many layers this morning.  My hot natured self had thought it was pretty cool last night!   Wembley stadium already?  Be there in a min. "share" "not connected to the Internet". Errgggghhhh!!!  Dadgummed iPhone!”

The rest of the story: 

Almost at work.  Last stop before mine – South Ruislip.  Just a few minutes before my stop…. Now it seems possibly it’s been too long since the train should have stopped.  Yes, indeeddy!  The train didn’t stop at my stop but went all the way to Denham!  Deboard at Denham, buy a ticket because the Oyster card doesn’t work out here.  Wait outside in the fresh air 30 minutes for the next train back, entirely happy now that I’ve dressed in too many layers.  Back on the train & 10 minutes to my stop.  No conductor checks the tickets.  I could have gotten away with not having bought a ticket (£2.50), but would that have been the right thing to do?  Yes, I believe it would.  I didn’t mean to go to Denhem.  That was a mistake.  That train should have stopped at my stop. 

Now, I’m at work and not feeling so good.  Scratchy throat, burning chest.  I believe I’ll take my achy self home, medicate and rest.  Yes, I will.  And by the way the word from the Chiltern Rail folks at Marylebone Station is that the schedule changed a few weeks ago and that train no longer stops at my stop; I need to take the train that leaves 3 minutes earlier than that one.  This I would have known sooner had I made the 7:30 train more often.

See what happens when you leave everything to the last minute?  See what happens when you forget to be thankful that you LIVE IN LONDON!!!!!!!!!