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Train tickets rant
May. 6th, 2009 11:47 pmGo on, visit your favourite train ticket site and book some tix with bike reservations*. I'll give you a prize if you get anything better than a vexing user-interface fail ("you must reserve bike space at the same time as seats, and you already did that" it says after auto-reserving seats) or some platitudinous waffle about how green and lovely folding bikes are.
I don't care how lovely folding bikes are; I don't give a howling damn about your environmental credentials. I want to buy a train ticket: You've made the sale already, stop waffling and frakking CLOSE THE DEAL. Folding bikes are small enough to be luggage exactly to get around the staggering failgasm that is the British rail network's ability to handle a bicycle.
Damned if I'm doing the Dumb Run on the Brompton, anyway. I'm mad, but not that mad.
I'll go and see the nice, helpful human again. You'd think I would learn, but somehow my pattern-matchng fails at train tickets. "Ooh, I'll just see if Trainline doesn't suck yet.... rargh! RARGH! HULK SMASH!" It's hell on crockery and shirts.
* Smug euros need not apply.
I don't care how lovely folding bikes are; I don't give a howling damn about your environmental credentials. I want to buy a train ticket: You've made the sale already, stop waffling and frakking CLOSE THE DEAL. Folding bikes are small enough to be luggage exactly to get around the staggering failgasm that is the British rail network's ability to handle a bicycle.
Damned if I'm doing the Dumb Run on the Brompton, anyway. I'm mad, but not that mad.
I'll go and see the nice, helpful human again. You'd think I would learn, but somehow my pattern-matchng fails at train tickets. "Ooh, I'll just see if Trainline doesn't suck yet.... rargh! RARGH! HULK SMASH!" It's hell on crockery and shirts.
* Smug euros need not apply.
