to consider sending the bill for yet another ruined dinner to Southern fucking bastarding rail?

[flootshoot]

I am so sick of DH leaving the office on time, only to end up being late because of unexplained delays on the stupid fecking trains. I can't wait until I know he's definitely going to be on time, because I like DS to eat with us and if I waited it'd be far too late for him.

But once again DS and I are going to eat without DH who will have to have his microwaved later.

I know this is actually rather a petty issue, but for the price DH pays for his ticket, the service is a fucking joke.

I'm also sick of leaving my office on time and taking 2 and a half hours to get home for no particular reason.

That's life I'm afraid.

It shouldn't be "life" though, should it? We pay some of the highest ticket prices in the world for a shit, slovenly, filthy, inadequate service. It's a fucking insult and OP is right to be pissed off about it.

You should wait to find out why it's late. It could be that some poor soul has fallen under a train or something. I'm sure you're pissed but there's far worse in life then a late supper.

This is why I never start dinner until DH either rings me or texts me to let me know he's physically on a moving train. Tonight is a case in point.

t shouldn't be "life" though, should it? We pay some of the highest ticket prices in the world for a shit, slovenly, filthy, inadequate service. It's a fucking insult and OP is right to be pissed off about it.

No it should be. I spend over £2000 a year on my ticket and it's fucking useless. But what can you do about it? I stopped getting mad about it a long time ago, there's no point. No one cooks me dinner when I get home

^^ Sorry should have said Shouldn't be....

I know, we would all have ulcers if we got riled about every little thing every time. But it irks me that that is what the slovenly greedy bastards are banking on.

DH and I, if we ever come into a larrrrrrge sum of money, are going to take a Year Off and actually live our normal lives but at a slower pace and ACTUALLY WRITE all of those letters and emails and follow up all those little things. Then publish it as a book, complete with the farcical replies, blanket letters and insulting foboffs that we receive in return. A year in modern Britain.

In Japan, if someone kills themselves they put up a tent/shield thing, clear it up and the train gets there 10-15 mins late. If the train breaks down, another one is announced on another platform and it's a mad rush and very hideously rammed. But if they can do it and it CAN be done efficiently, why can't we?
I did hate being crushed, but rather that than wait for 2 hrs.

YANBU. At all.

dh pays through the nose for an annual parking ticket at the station - only to not actually be guaranteed a parking space

then another small fortune for his annual train ticket, only to not be guaranteed a seat - in fact, in the last timetable shakeup, the trains were reduced from 8 carriages to 4 at the most packed commuter times, so he rarely gets a seat. and pays thousands for the privilege.

and then there si the whole other story of punctuality. ha. the whole thing is just a very grim joke.

YANBU

Trains really really f*ck me off.

I will complain every time I suffer a delay or shortage of trains. You can find out the reasons and on bastard southeastern trains it's usually defective trains it can happen several times a week

I never understand why people put up with it. Okay my complaints individually won't make a difference but if everyone complained to their MP or to the company then they'd sooner listen.

It is shit, I am delayed pretty much every day on the train. Sometimes 1 or 2 minutes, sometimes more. So far this week (I've only worked 3 of the days) I was 25 minutes late one morning (train cancelled due to a 'fault'), 5 minutes late on another (no explanation, enough to miss my connection), and on the journey home 5 minutes and 15 minutes respectively.

I did start once keeping a log of how often my trains ran on time til I got fed up and in about a 6 week period, the trains never ran exactly to time more than once a week

I have an interview at 9am next week. It is a 1.5 hour journey from my home to interview location, but because the trains are so unreliable I am leaving home at 6.30 because that is the only way I can be sure of arriving on time!

Are you sure it's a transport issue that's delaying him every day?

Its really really easy to check if a train is delayed or not on journeycheck, and I completely believe that it is, the trains in this country are utter dog poop, I am home late so often because of leaves on the line, overhead power line failure, carriage faults, etc etc until I want to cry.

YANBU at all. First Crapital Connect sent me to St Albans this morning against my will, because the train was running late and they decided that in order to meet their 'performance target' the best way was to skip all of the stations after St Pancras, one of which happened to be the one I wanted to get off at.

To add to this general helpfulness, they then whispered the announcement if they bothered announcing it at all, I didn't hear it until the train had left St Pancras, at which point the train announcer thingy said loudly and brightly 'The next stop will be St Albans.' Thanks, train fuckwits, I'm now going to be half an hour late for my appointment because you can't stick to your schedule and need to tick the 'performance' boxes whether that actually counts as performing or not.

Fuckers.

Jeepers Exquisite - do you commute? The trains really truly are complete fucking shite, and I'm a bit at your suggestion that the OP's DH might actually just be lying.

National express east anglia seem to be very unlucky statistically with the amount of deaths on their lines. I'm sure its not just its an excuse that no one would dare complain about.
Just sayin'