Travelling tips
If you need to travel home by train after a night out on the beers, resist the urge to sit down on as hard as you can and stand instead. Unless you’re particularly skilled, you won’t fall asleep and miss your stop.
Exactly the sort of advice that would have been useful last night and would have saved me a wadge of cash for a taxi from Milton Keynes to home after I fell asleep and missed my stop.
This Public Service Announcement was brought to you by ten pints of Old Speckled Hen, a bottle of Smirnoff Ice and a packet of extra strength Resolve.
Note: this does not apply if your stop is the last stop on the line. In that case, drink as much as you like and the nice rail steward will wake you and tell you to get the f*** off his train when you reach your destination.
Comment by Matt — August 19, 2006 @ 2:38 pm
Related question: what is the etiquette if you spot someone sleeping on the last train home? Do you wake them at your stop to tell them where they are? Do you wake them as soon as you see them to ask them where they are getting off?
Or do you flick wee bits of mushy paper at them seeing who can get the biggest bit to stick without them waking up?
Comment by Gordon — August 21, 2006 @ 10:52 am
Gordon, depends on if they are female and cute. Actually if they were female and cute I would be to shy to approach them anyway so ignore that.
Dragon, could have been worse. You could have been stuck in Milton K.
Other tricks, set your phone alarm for the approximate time it should take to be 5 mins from your stop. If it doesn’t wake you it will annoy other passengers who will.
Comment by Adrian — September 1, 2006 @ 9:02 am