*shudders*
May. 5th, 2009 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird_ljSometimes using public tranport is just... unpleasant.
I was on the train today, doing inspections like a dutiful little public servant.
So...
1) I got on, just in time to see a woman throw up all over the floor of the train.
I was worried that maybe she was really sick, but, no, it was just that her lunch was badly cooked (or something) and so she had a slight case of food poisoning which necessitated vomiting everywhere.
...that business concluded, she shrugged, and got back to eating her lunch.
YES. THE SAME LUNCH THAT HAD MADE HER SICK.
And so she threw up again.
And then she started eating her lunch again. And I changed seats.
2) Three stops later, Vomiting Lady got off.
A stop after that, Drunk Guy got on.
Drunk Guy was rather upset by the copious amount of vomit decorating the train's floor. So he lit a cigarette.
Sorry... he lit several cigarettes.
He was frantically smoking three cigarettes at once, and waving them round over the vomit - while declaring, loudly, to everyone on the train, that he'd "fix the smell" of the vomit by covering it up with the smell of burning nicotine.
...sometimes I wish I could just drive everywhere.
I was on the train today, doing inspections like a dutiful little public servant.
So...
1) I got on, just in time to see a woman throw up all over the floor of the train.
I was worried that maybe she was really sick, but, no, it was just that her lunch was badly cooked (or something) and so she had a slight case of food poisoning which necessitated vomiting everywhere.
...that business concluded, she shrugged, and got back to eating her lunch.
YES. THE SAME LUNCH THAT HAD MADE HER SICK.
And so she threw up again.
And then she started eating her lunch again. And I changed seats.
2) Three stops later, Vomiting Lady got off.
A stop after that, Drunk Guy got on.
Drunk Guy was rather upset by the copious amount of vomit decorating the train's floor. So he lit a cigarette.
Sorry... he lit several cigarettes.
He was frantically smoking three cigarettes at once, and waving them round over the vomit - while declaring, loudly, to everyone on the train, that he'd "fix the smell" of the vomit by covering it up with the smell of burning nicotine.
...sometimes I wish I could just drive everywhere.
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Date: 2009-05-05 06:30 am (UTC)That's why in America we like to use our cars...
From Laney
Date: 2009-05-05 10:14 am (UTC)!!?!?!?!!?!?
!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!?!?!?!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!
Oh, and yuck to smelly cigarette drunk guy.
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Date: 2009-05-05 11:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-05 12:47 pm (UTC)Ew.
Do they actually let you smoke on trains in Australia? Cause that's not allowed in America...at least where I live? I'm ignorant.
But yeah, sketchy things happen when I take the bus. Usually not as sketchy as that, though. O.O
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Date: 2009-05-05 04:27 pm (UTC)η
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Date: 2009-05-05 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-05 05:58 pm (UTC)Also... cigarette smoke doesn't mask vomit. I know this because of my learnings. My dark dark learnings.
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Date: 2009-05-05 08:46 pm (UTC)And...O.O
Although merely logically, that does make sense.
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Date: 2009-05-05 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-05 10:09 pm (UTC)They should carry sawdust etc in the driver's cabin to deal with such things, otherwise no-one cleans it up for far too long...
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Date: 2009-05-05 10:14 pm (UTC)I could have people running riot, graffitiing the windows, slashing up the seats with a knife, and throwing food everywhere... and my main responsibility would be checking that the platforms were painted, and that the train system maps were all where they were supposed to be.
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Date: 2009-05-05 10:43 pm (UTC)I had three uniformed staff get on once, and completely ignore the fact some poor guy was throwing up all over himself, which seemed a bit sad.
do you wear a lurid blue and yellow connex vest thing, or just go incognito?
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Date: 2009-05-05 10:50 pm (UTC)do you wear a lurid blue and yellow connex vest thing, or just go incognito?
Well, I have an orange safety vest to go on train tracks, but I try to hide it when I'm around people, because it says PUBLIC TRANSPORT in huge letters on the back, and I get lots of people coming up to complain about the trains being late (not my problem) or the toilets being dirty (also not my problem) or the ticket machines not working (sort of my problem, in a "write a note to myself about Connex not having fixed the ticket machines yet" way, but still something I can do nothing about).
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Date: 2009-05-05 10:54 pm (UTC)So what if...someone throws up onto a ticket machine, and no-one wants to go near it to use it? Does that fall into your domain? :-)
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Date: 2009-05-05 10:58 pm (UTC)(My job generally involves checking that Connex have done all the maintenance they say they've done, rather than saying "Why yes, we've done plenty of station painting - now give us money" while not actually doing anything.)
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Date: 2009-05-05 11:19 pm (UTC)Although, eww= tried opening a door yesterday morning where the handle was covered in chewing gum.
From Laney
Date: 2009-05-05 10:59 pm (UTC)Re: From Laney
Date: 2009-05-05 11:18 pm (UTC)Wanted to see if I could stump her. :-D
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Date: 2009-05-06 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-06 02:45 am (UTC)Like, really.
*shudders*
*pets*
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Date: 2009-05-07 04:52 am (UTC)