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.

Travelling with other have always been miserable due to their poor planning and their unwillingness to plan better.

Long layovers are good until your flight is cancelled/turned rounddue to malfunction or other issue or weather at the destination. Not so smug then as you have to rearrange your flight (if you can).

oh look its judgey mc judgeface

You don’t sound organised or superior, you just sound petty, joyless and mean. Laughing at strangers who are upset isn’t clever, it’s nasty. Blaming your relatives for your one slip is childish. And if the highlight of your day is watching people miss trains, that’s not superiority, that’s pathetic.

it wasn’t one slip up. Every time I’ve travelled with relatives we had to run for our flights due to their poor planning.

My DH thinks like you, he is always early, never misses anything always rolls his eyes at people who are late because it’s always their fault.

Until last year when a massive accident closed the motorway on the way to the airport (4 hours early) and caught us in gridlocked traffic meaning that we made the flight by the skin of our teeth. He now concedes that sometimes it is not the person at fault.

Well your hubris will teach you a lesson, one day.

How super to have that luxury. British railways (not British Railways, the railways in Britain) do not always allow you to do this and still have connecting trains on the same day.

OP, are friends and family actually queueing up to go on holiday with you?

No, I didn’t think so. I suspect the misery you describe wasn’t only yours.

Generally I’d agree with you and so far it’s never happened to us. However it very nearly did last year when they put the wrong gate number for our plane on the board and it was literally the other end of the airport. By the time we realised, we were running like mad but a very kind airport worker let us go in a back passageway so we just made it. It wasn’t just us either!

Gosh, what a mean-spirited person.

Do not care. Solo travel is much more enjoyable then travelling with other people who are poor
planners and who loiter around.

I mean, there are worse things people do in this world than miss connections when travelling….seems an odd thing to get worked up about

I've no sympathy for those who persist on connecting tight on Minimum Connection Time but If you fly often enough then one day you'll be on the wrong end of a 12 -24 hour plus delay, and then even your 3 to 5 hours won"t have been sufficient.

Even with the best planning and biggest margins in the world big delays happen and it's no laughing matter when it does.

Not sure why you feel the need to advertise how superior you feel to other people who are running late.

I am an early person but I don't delight in the misfortune of others.

That’s why you are alone then…

Next time I am late to go home from working a late NHS clinic (which has ended up running very late because I have had to admit an unexpected sick patient that I do this in my own time because I don’t want them to die….) I’ll run for the earliest train home and I will think of miserable people like you who take pleasure in it.

I watched a reel yesterday from a man saying everyone should miss the odd flight or it's a sign you are wasting hours by arriving too early. Not sure I want to fork out for replacement flights though!

So a sick kid that you've had to strip a bed off for , then take ti grandmas because nursery won't take them etc , tries best to get to work on time and you laugh at them because they should do better?

You are a horrible person I suggest you watch "straw" look at how some people have a more difficult life than you do

We missed our ferry to France once because of M25 problems, no fault of our own. Nice to know you've got zero sympathy for people who miss connections. Might just happen to you one day. Best laid plans and all that!

This. Or a last minute platform change

Not everyone has the luxury of planning long lay-overs or getting to the station or airport hours and hours before their flight/train leaves, @joseline. Lots of people have other demands on their time/other time constraints that mean they can’t just ‘leave home earlier’ or ‘have a long lay over’ - I don’t think that is a terribly difficult concept for someone to understand.

If people are simply disorganised/habitually late, I agree this is infuriating, but you seem to think that there are no reasons why anyone might be held up getting to the station or might not be able to take your leisurely approach.

What a boring topic for a thread 😂

Well, aren't you a peach @joseline ??! As pps have said, interesting that you are a solo traveller.

If you see me running for a train it is because I arrive so early I sometimes get the earlier train particularly if it's a bit late. Definitely wasting your chuckles.

Anywhere around here (so not a million miles from Heathrow or Gatwick) I will usually assume that the bastard traffic has been even worse than usual, especially if they had to use the M25.