I do not feel bad for people who miss their flights or trains.

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In general it is not hard at all to be on time. People miss flights or trains because of their own poor plannings, time management and irresponsibility.

when I travel by train from one city to another city far away, I see other travellers running to catch their trains. Sometimes they manage to make it onto their trains before they leave, a lot of time they miss them and they complain and throw a fit and sometimes even cry.

i always chuckle when I witness that because I know for sure that it is their fault. When I travel and I have a train or flight to catch I make sure to leave my house early to I can arrive early. At least 3 hours early. If I have a flight at 9 AM for example and the airline recommends me to be at the airport at 7 AM I am there at 6 AM. Of course I take myself to the airport so that nobody can dictate what I can and can’t do. I don’t let relatives take me to the airport anymore. I use uber or public transport.

the only time I’ve ever missed my flights or trains was when I travelled with older relatives. But ever since I started travelling solo, I never missed my flights or trains.

so when I am at the train stations or airport and I see people running, I feel 0 sympathy for them. They most likely loiter at home and decide to leave their homes close to the time of their departures.

i always chuckle when I witness that because I know for sure that it is their fault

You really don't.

From Paris not zoeys 🤣🤣

Your thread just makes you sound like an unhappy individual who struggles with forming meaningful connections with other people and so has psychologically resorted to finding reasons to look down on other people, as a way to cope.

Smug, judgemental, and hopefully not too long before you experience missing a train or a flight because a connection was late, or there were other circumstances beyond your control. No wonder you travel alone.

I feel sorry for sad people who have nothing better to do than write irrelevant posts on MN 😂😂🙈🙈

I was going to say, who’s zoey? 😂😂😂

What a horrible person laughing at other people’s misfortune. Karma will pay you a visit at some point.

Is loiter your word of the week? 🤣🤷‍♀️

So… what is it you want from the thread? You caught your train/plane; you’re happy on your solo travels - why are you telling us about it?

This response is perfect.

When I was small we flew to Orlando to go to Disney. Back then there were no direct flights to Orlando, you had to go via Miami and change. Well our first plane had a fault that we had to have fixed so we missed our takeoff window. We left 3 hours later than scheduled and even with a long layover at Miami, we missed our connecting flight.

Nice to know you'd have laughed at 6 year old me crying because I was exhausted, they'd lost our luggage and we'd missed our flight. What a horrible person you are.

My flight home from Portugal was cancelled. They put me on the next available flight which was to Heathrow and then another flight to my final destination. I had to run the whole way to second flight as there was so little time between connecting flights. They had actually closed boarding when I arrived. None of that was my fault. I also had a baby in tow.

Some of the reasons I've had for missing trains (and once a plane) are: my Dad being taken to hospital, my son having an accident at school and my purse being stolen. But luckily I wasn't craving your sympathy.

Congratulations, here is your medal.

While I do think that some people are just lackadaisical when it comes to time management and there are those who are just chronically late for things, I do also
believe that the majority of latenesses are for valid reasons. There are literally a million things outwith people’s control that can cause lateness. Hell, just today my train from work was delayed, which meant I missed the bus I needed to get to collect my daughter from after school care and had to get a taxi. I couldn’t control the broken down train on the line that delayed every other train that day.
Delayed connecting flights/trains, taxis that don’t show up or get lost, vehicle blocking the driveway that you have to wait to move, unexpected roadworks, unexpected traffic accidents, car trouble, sudden illness or injury, stopping to help someone who needs it, kid has lost their shoe, baby needs nappy changed, the list goes on.
It must be wonderful being perfect.

Half the airport almost missed their flight in Malta last week. They wait until the last minute to put the gate number up, then there's a surprise second passport control that everyone has to pass through to get to the gates. It was moving so. frigging. slowly. and people were having to beg to queue jump as they watched their gate closing just 5 metres ahead of them. Not everything can be planned for.

You sound like a twat!
What about traffic?
What about unforeseen circumstances?
Trains for example are ALWAYS late so what if the connecting train was late hence running for the next one?
No one’s perfect… not even you!

Wow. I imagine you have many friends and family members falling over each other to be your travel buddy.
Must be nice to be perfect, chuckling to yourself at people having a bad day.

Is this not a bit like Rhodes airport where it’s very well signposted that flights to certain destinations need to pass through passport control, and so you should leave plenty of time to go through?

You sound insufferably sanctimonious. Nothing better to do today?

Yeah this. ^ It strikes me though, that the OP has a LOT of time on her hands. 😆

You are either bloody lucky or have not been on many plane journeys requiring changes.

I’m an anxious traveller. A massively anxious traveller. I used to travel for work for about 7 years. I spent a lot of my personal time, rare personal time I could have been at my own home, waiting in stations, airports etc for connections. Because I too used to ensure that I allowed a lot of time between connections for delays.

however, there were at least 4 occasions (out of travel every other week in last 3 years I worked) I ended up having to “run” to meet a connection. My worst journey was trying to get home from Kansas city, via Atlanta and into Manchester. Even in taxi on way to airport in Kansas city, I got notified my flight was cancelled into Atlanta due to tournedos. Couldn’t turn around, still had my connecting flight. Got to airport, argued with them re intercontinental flight, got booked onto next flight out of Kansas. Even then should have had lay over in Atlanta for 6 hours as intercontinental flights always left in evening. And It was only 9am when I got to Kansas airport. Well, that was before a major tornado alley disruption all morning and into afternoon. Flights delayed, cancelled, reinstated. Even once we were airborne at 3pm, I still could have made it in plenty of time. On landing in Atlanta, it was bedlam. All flights coming in quickly around gap in tournedos. And so they had no air bridges to disembark us. 3 hours sat on plane before we got off. I had 30 mins to get to my connection. Changing terminals using sky bus. I knew the way as regular journey, and ran. I was over 60, had hand luggage to carry, (lucky hold case is booked right throw in Kansas) . It was not funny, I ended up tearing an achillies that took 2 years to recover from. But I knew if I didn’t make that flight, I’d not be home till Sunday mid morning. I arrived with minutes to spare, only to find that they’d just cancelled the virgin flight due to air restrictions coming in again. I was close to tears frankly. I didn’t get home till Sunday anyway. Only positive was they bumped me to first class, given the hassle of previous day (I was frequent long haul flier anyway) .

so yes, you scoff away. How much earlier was I supposed to leave? The previous day ? I was being paid to work by my company, not paid to take 2 days to travel home. Cancel my flights as soon as I heard of tournedos and not leave Kansas? Company paid for flights and travel, I would have run a risk of them having to pay double. Or give up even more of my precious weekend but allowing a full 24 hours plus in Atlanta and stay in hotel anyway and hang about all day Saturday waiting for Saturday evening flight out? Even though I was due to fly to Basel for work again on Monday, and I wanted my weekend at home

this is just one occasion. I have many many other stories of flight or rail or even road delays, even though I always leave in gallons of time. So much so others at work refused to travel with me due to what they see as time wasting, or I’d leave them wandering around terminal to go and wait by desk

I’m glad the sources of my anxiety and missed nights and days at home in my own bed, provide you with a confirmation of your superiority. Or you see people like me running, in some discomfort, as a source of amusement. You are lacking the empathy to actually stop and think of the hundred reasons why people are running, dashing for transport links. Whilst you may know a few people who are tardy and late for everything (and I do too, including my late mother that cussed me so much stress probably that I’m an early bird person since childhood), it does not mean that all people you see in this state are lacking the intelligence and insight you seem to think you have and they haven’t. Some of us are merely dealing with the very frequent acts of gods, unforeseen issues and even emergency travel to get home to a dying loved one in time.

dear god, I hope you get a wake up call of your grand plans going awry sometime soon, so you understand this isn’t about your superiority of knowing something others dont. You’ve merely had luck on your side to date.

“a lot of time they miss (the train) and they complain and throw a fit and sometimes even cry” 🤔 I travel a lot and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone “throw a fit” or cry because they missed a train. Do you mean “tut and roll their eyes”?

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