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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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cunting Virgin Trains

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IHeartKittensAndWine · 20/12/2010 19:41

First train to manchester out of ldn in fuck knows how long. Fucking carnage to get to it. Hundreds of people. And they don't de classify first class.
AIBU to think in "adverse weather conditions" it is the very least they could do to get more people moving and minimise the scrabble for the later trains?
Arsewipes.

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LifeForRent · 20/12/2010 19:43

Well if I'd paid for first class, I can't say I'd want to share with screaming children, and hoards of scum...

But that's just my opinion.

chrimblycompo · 20/12/2010 19:45

Yanbu

but thank your lucky stars you're on a train

VladimirsPukin · 20/12/2010 19:45

As if it isnt bad enough going to Manchester

I think on all trains if second class is full and 1st class is not if you ask the guard he has to let you into first class. This is in the rules and regs (my brother told me and he is a bit of a train buff)

Conflugenglugen · 20/12/2010 19:45

We had the same thing on East Coast, but we essentially had an informal "sit in" in first class, so they had to declassify it. It is ridiculous, as you say. Sorry to hear you had a bad time.

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IHeartKittensAndWine · 20/12/2010 19:48

First class is empty. Except for the ppl evicted. And they declassify the hyper busy trains all the time when there are delays. Just not today.
Thanking stars but not to much till its absolutely certain I won't by stranded overnight in stockport!

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IHeartKittensAndWine · 20/12/2010 19:52

Oh dear God there's a child practicing a penny whistle.
I'm in for a long fun night.

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RevoltingPeasant · 20/12/2010 19:54

OP often you can buy upgrades to 1st class on the day for a relatively small fee, like a tenner or £15. My mum swears by this.

I am having to get up at 5 to get a bus (which I HOPE comes) to get a train to Yorks tomorrow. It will be a saga just getting to the station and if bastard CrossCountry stop running them I will find Richard Branson and strangle him, slowly.

Not even sure he runs them anymore, but it just feels like it would a beneficient thing to do...

LifeForRent · 20/12/2010 19:55

That penny whistle RIGHT THERE is why they should be banned from first class if they don't have a ticket.

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IHeartKittensAndWine · 20/12/2010 19:57

Good luck tomorrow revolting! You'd have to fight me to strangle him.
A stranger has snatched the penny whistle off the child. The child is crying and its mum is shouting.
It's a bit like being stuck in a zoo.

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LifeForRent · 20/12/2010 19:59

Ahh that's made my night. Hope the little shit child chokes on it :)

melezka · 20/12/2010 20:00

Hulababy · 20/12/2010 20:03

First Class is not a child free zone.

But I agree with you, any non reserved seats should be opened up for others to sit in in such circumstances.

We had this once from Birmingham to Sheffield and our reserved seats has been declassified in standard class. So me and a friend were sat on the floor of the bit between the carriageway with two under 5s. The guard insisted we satin First CLass, could have kissed him.lol.

SpringHeeledJack · 20/12/2010 20:04

a penny whistle??

I am imagining steerage on the Titanic or similar

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IHeartKittensAndWine · 20/12/2010 20:04

Btw I have a seat, so this isn't self interest - I just can't believe they'd have standard packed literally to the rafters - there's barely space to breath- and first class empty.
Penny whistle child is now singing. I wonder if the shop sells calpol (or gin or valium)

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LifeForRent · 20/12/2010 20:05

First Class should be a child free zone. Except for my child, he's wonderful

LifeForRent · 20/12/2010 20:06

Call the transport police and arrange a taser...failing that, lock him in the toilet.

CommanderDrool · 20/12/2010 20:06

I would like yo warn everyone that i will be travelling Glasgow to London on Dec 29 on Virgin with my three screaming children. And I have booked First Class because i hate travelling on their overcrowded, overheated, shit buckets sooooo much.

And my children are very noisy and prone to projectile vomiting around the Lake District area, so I would consider economy if you know what's good for you

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IHeartKittensAndWine · 20/12/2010 20:06

Yes - its a penny whistle. Cheap bit of tin with a mouthpiece and some holes. The sound it makes is nothing like the Titanic (never seen the film) unless there's a bit were people start hollering like cats with their balls in a vice in fear of death

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VladimirsPukin · 20/12/2010 20:12

You have never seen Titanic(shock)

Its about a ship that sinks

jsgirl · 20/12/2010 20:13

Will I be the first to say yes, there is, the theme tune sung by La Dion.

AlistairSim · 20/12/2010 20:18

What's he singing?

Just so I can accurately picture the level of your pain, you understand.

saffy85 · 20/12/2010 20:19

My inlaws have got DD (3) a penny whistle apparently. It was that or a recorder. how about neither? I'm telling her she can keep it for when grandma and grandad look after her.

Back to your point, YANBU. Your situation sounds grim. But aleast you're on a train unlike the poor buggers queuing round the block at St Pancreas for the Eurostar. Which isn't going anywhere.

SpringHeeledJack · 20/12/2010 20:23

he he he

thanks for sharing, OP

...my dds (7) like to give money to buskers. One refused tother day to stick 50p in a penny-whistling busker's cap "because it just sounds a bit wrong"

KatieMiddleton · 20/12/2010 20:23

Rofl at the saga of the penny whistle. OP I feel your pain

SpringHeeledJack · 21/12/2010 08:51

...OP what happened?

was blood shed?

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