Got horribly lost and missed your train? Monster delay? Tell us here!

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    London to Brighton train. I live somewhere in between. Stayed up 3 nights finishing some coursework, and finally handed it in. Kept falling asleep on the train and waking up at the terminal station, yo-yoing twice between endpoints. At one point the guy at the barrier said “YOU again?” as a joke, but it was too much and I burst into tears.

  • oldfart@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    Got beat up by aggressive locals on a trip. Spent the night hiding from them. Caught a train in the morning, arrived home completely exhausted in the evening, crossed tracks with some other passengers to save on walking upstairs. Got a ticket for crossing the rails because, beat up, i looked like a bum.

    About a year later it was legal to cross the rails in that spot, with no changes made to the infrastructure.

      • Weirdly, the thing that scared me most that day was the enormous cicada that was in the car my dad was driving like a maniac in to get us to Nicosia in the first place. The gunfire and shells barely registered until weeks later. All I knew was my dad looked stressed, my mom looked close to tears, and there were a lot of people constantly staring in the direction of the “fireworks”.

  • Lady Butterfly @lazysoci.alOP
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    11 hours ago

    I was once travelling just after the Paddington rail crash when there were mandatory speed restrictions. It was a 25 minute train journey that took nearly 3 hours. This is the days before smart phones so I had to just sit staring at a field bored out of my mind.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    I had to fit through a tiny hole to exit a submarine I had already been stranded in for nine months.