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

[joseline]

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.

Do you chuckle at yourself, OP, if you drop something or miss a phone call or any other of life's inconveniences? you really should as it's down to your poor planning.

I think you need to remove your head from your asshole OP!

Are you Monica from Friends?

Seriously - what should I have done when the M1 turned into a car park after an accident and my friend almost missed her flight? We allowed 2 hours for a 20 mile journey.
Absolutely not loitering.

Ooh look, OP - here’s a holiday companion for you!

The level of Schadenfreude you experience seems disproportionate to me, and definitely veers into nastiness.

I can understand why you travelling solo is more pleasurable to you, but my guess is that you travelling alone is a better solution for your travelling companions too.

@joseline the only time I have ever missed a flight was a 3 hour layover at Atlanta. Totally planned out well but a weather delay then extra flying time meant landing 90 minutes late to an awful immigration queue that had multiple flights landing all at the same time and picking up luggage etc.

Wasnt an issue went in standby for the next flight

oh lots of people came close once in Toronto due to awful queue management

bit again how do you overcome queues not being able to enter until 2 hours before unless you travel business?

Indeed, the roadworks near Leatherhead are diabolical. If you don’t drive that way normally you’d have no idea that you might need to add an extra hour at least to the journey.

Funnily enough I’m at the airport waiting for the next flight having missed mine.

I missed it because when crossing the road outside my office the person in front of me badly misjudged and was hit by a car. I looked after him, waited for the paramedic, and had to leave my details. My guess is OP wouldn’t have bothered with any of that.

Fortunately the airline is much more accommodating of us tardy individuals!

Good for you OP. Good for you 👍

And this is why posts like OPs are so nasty, because they will be triggering for someone.

I hope OP is ashamed that she has brought back distressing memories for another person, and might think a bit harder next time she/he decides to start a goady thread just for the hell of it. But I doubt she is, because anyone who gets enjoyment from another's misfortune is clearly lacking normal levels of empathy.

@SardinesOnGingerbread I'm so sorry for your loss my dear

I fundamentally disagree with this. The op sounds a lot of an arsehole.

Well done op. Your medal is in the post. You can polish it while you’re chuckling at others’ misfortune.

I think I'd rather miss my train than be an emotional void who can't form human connections.

But you do you.

I think the fact you have said "other" rather than others is not a mistake! Im guessing you have only ever found one other sucker to travel with you!

The M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh closed just after midday today and it only reopened half an hour ago. Many people from Glasgow and the west use Edinburgh Airport (there is a half-hourly express bus from Glasgow city centre to Edinburgh Airport); how many hours should the people affected by this have allowed to get to the airport? There was a lot of traffic trapped on the motorway for a long time so those drivers wouldn't have been able to use a different route.
Airlines sometimes ask you to be there 3 hours before your flight and it takes and hour to get from Glasgow to Edinburgh Airport; should people leave home 10 hours before their flight just in case the M8 is closed for 6 hours?

Well fair enough if that makes you happy. I’d rather run through the airport and miss a connection very occasionally than deliberately spend 2-4 hours more than I need to at the airport for most of my connecting flights. If I had done that last year I was travelling with work I’d have lost the best part of a week of my life when I could otherwise have been with my kids. We are all different though and I can understand why other people prefer to guarantee they won’t miss a train/flight. I have to say though laughing at others for managing things differently and being upset when it doesn’t go well is fairly unpleasant so you might want to reflect on what that says about your character.

Well no, it's not always their fault.
It wasn't ours the once we almost missed pir flight. The only reason we made it was they were delayed so they did let us on.

Our reason for being late? We arrived 3 hours and 30 minutes before our flight, the service I'd booked for the car to be dropped off didn't turn up, and it was 2 hours before we could find someone else to pick up the car from the airport. Then it was a mad rush.
Not our fault, the company were well reccommended and I had proof of booking which was made months in advance.

I hate to think that people might have thought our situation was funny or our fault.

You seriously have no idea do you! I regularly do a journey that takes 6 hours, however last time, through no fault of my own it took 12 hours. No amount of pre planning would have prevented it. I was not loitering.

A few years ago I was on a flight that had to turn back and there were no other flights that day so yes, I missed my connection even though I was actually due an overnight layover.

Things happen! Traffic accidents happen. Trains are cancelled. Flights are cancelled. Flights are delayed. Icelandic volcanos erupt!

Ever heard of empathy?

I just realised from the departure board - the flight I missed is late, and will be departing after the flight I was moved to.

I mean the OP just has a pathetically simple life if their circumstances are such that they can’t imagine a circumstance when their travel arrangements are not entirely in their control. Either that, or they can’t afford travel insurance, which has without fail paid out any time my travel has been disrupted due to circumstances outside of my control.

Actually I have missed another flight when we had to land at another airport and sit for 2 hours due to a massive storm then flight left by the time clear immigration. Had to stay overnight and fly out the next day

Do you think they were deliberately trying to miss the flights?

I’d definitely fake a delay if it meant missing a holiday with this joyless cow. 😂

I can only take public transport to train stations and airports. Sometimes the public transport fails... epically. I was once on a Thameslink train to Gatwick that was stuck in London for over an hour. There's nothing I could do about this. I leave home for a flight about four hours before take-off, and the train station about two hours before departure, and it can still go wrong. I've never been fortunate enough to have a layover, but I would definitely leave a few hours between flights if I did. Btw I live in London so it's not a complicated trip to a local airport, but I can be at the mercy of the Lizzy or Piccadilly line and all I can do it stick out their problems.

God, you’re horrible, aren’t you?

My commute is 2.5 hours each way. I have to do that three times a week. It includes two trains - I never book the second train back until I’m close to the station as it is ALWAYS late and, if there’s a cat in hell’s chance of getting the next train by sprinting across the station you better damn believe I’m giving Usain Bolt a run for his money. Because I am tired, I am frazzled, I have usually been going for anywhere between 13-15 hours and I will do whatever it takes to get home 30-40 minutes earlier. But I need my job and can’t find one closer.

Glad my life is amusing you while I am trying to make it home. Goady, nasty and superior. What are you getting out of this thread?

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

How do you feel about muscling past wheelchair users to get into the disabled toilets or not stopping for little old ladies crossing the road?

You may have a kindred spirit on these here boards.