I passed 6 challenger tanks, 2 Bridge throwers and god knows how many wolves and DROPS heading your way earlier @keets.
I nearly crashed into one convoy staring at the Oshkosh HETT pulling it. I may be obsessed…
Good luck. Looking like a major exercise
Seriously guys. Its days like today that make “going postal” a viable option
Needed to drop my car in Cardiff for some work to be done on it. This will take a day and a half. My Mum lives in Port Talbot near Swansea so I said to her that I would catch a train from Cardiff into port talbot and get a taxi from the station to her house. Stay the night and then do the reverse tommorow. She suggested I bring the kids as well, well why not.
Dropped car off at 1030. Walked 1 mile to train station. Waited 2.5 hours in the rain to be told train was cancelled and I needed to go to Cardiff central station.
Did so.
Waited another 1 hour with hungry kids to get train.
Got train and was ejected at Bridgend Station due a “fault”
Ate food to sate children (who have been utterly wonderful to be honest)
Got on train to final destination at Port talbot, feeling happier now its nearly over.
Arrive Port talbot and I’m not joking when I say the door release button wouldn’t bloody work. Hit it. Punched it and was just about to totally lose the rag entirely when the train just…pulled away.
We ended up in Neath. Not a million miles away but far enough to be a proper pain. Asked ticket lady how to get back to Port talbot and she helpfully told me that we had just come from there. I never EVER take out my problems on the staff regardless of my mood but I must admit getting…close to my civility limits and found out that the next train back would be another 55 minutes.
Asked politely to be let out the station as soon as humanely possible as I’m getting close to setting fire to the whole place.
Ordered a taxi and got charged more than I am completely comfortable with but the bloody ordeal is over.
I. Hate. Public. Transport. I’m gonna leave 2 days early and walk next time.
You need to go back to two days ago and get yourself one of those Challenger tanks… 
Thats probably wise.
I can cope with minor annoyances. It’s part of life. We all have them and deal with them in our own way
But today was “transport for wales” saying F U in particular to the little English dude and his 2 impeccably behaved kids.
I blame @tempusmurphy. I reckon he phoned ahead and warned them I was coming
I’m so proud of my team though. They acted better than I did
Bravo zulu on not completely losing it mate. Couldn’t have handled that any better myself. Take it out on @tempusmurphy next time we fly! He’s earned some 20mm by proxy lol.
Thanks @schurem. Its not the end of the world. Just a bit maddening to be AT your destination only for the shonky busted train to not open the sodding door.
Still… all good now.
Me and public transport honestly are better staying apart. We just do not get on. The really irritating thing is I drove 120 miles to get to Cardiff completely without incident or problem. The last bloody 20 miles by train took nearly 4 HOURS!!! AND COST ME £47 IN TOTAL with the taxi.
I hate public transport. It was lower than cruise ships this morning on the list of Victork2 pet peeves but my god its equal now.
You have adorable kids! Hope they got some ice cream out of the deal!
That first pic told me: those kids are tired.
And then I saw the second one. 
This!
Please note I had nothing to do with the above situation… 
I have no contact with anything to do with transport for Wales … But if I had of known of aforementioned travel plans I would have come up with something more creative than a train fault . . 
… but seriously bang a claim form in for some compensation … Anything that delays any journey over 30 minutes means you are entitled to something back … And I know how much those tickets cost …
I have not seen any traveling posts in quite some time.My view today in SanDiego CVN70 and CVN72 docked while USS Anchorage puts out to sea
It’s date night, we’ve gone to Blenheim Palace to see a drive in movie. Its pretty cool! We are seeing “the greatest showman” which is a movie I would rather not see but the wife likes it…
Why does you car not have a steering wheel?-)
The British are very much advanced on self-driving cars…
Looks like you guys had a great time. Well she did. The movie that torturous eh?
To be fair it was better than I thought it would be. Still not totally on board with it but it was better than moulin rouge. I’m not a fan of musicals.
I went to that movie expecting a historical movie on barnum… Boy I was surprised when the intro song went into another song… and then another . It’s not really my kind of movie but it turned into a slow burn and a massive success in the cinema’s so good on them!
I just wish my wife would change her ringtone from “this is the greatest show”
That gets irritating at night
*that sounds wrong but I didn’t mean it like that
Moulin Rouge is probably the best musical ever made.
Granted, if you don’t like musical you shouldn’t really watch it.
But I’m the sort of guy that get absolutely enthralled by Theater, Opera, Ballet, and such so…
Yeah, they don’t do a anything for me really. I’m not knocking them, just not my cup of tea. My wife enjoyed it though. Gotta say, that zac efron was so much better than i expected though. He’s actually a very good actor in my opinion.
^-^ yeah, no worries. I can never get upset at opinions expressed as you did.
I can totally get why someone might not like them. 
Well, since we’re all here talking about stuff…
Anybody lives around Paris?
Maybe around the 25th of this month?
