I love you car,ill never leave you again!

anniehoo · 30-01-2009 10:45AM #1

What a miserable miserable morning (and last night) getting to and from work! After a few too many in the pub near work last night i left my car in the work car park, thinking "grand nitelink home, bus to work in the morning sorted"! How wrong was i! :mad::(

So got soaked waiting for the last bus into town last night.Asked the clueless bus driver was there nitelinks on thurs nites as there usually is but knowing dublin bus ye have to check anyway. He'd no idea and judging by the row of taxis at the stops they werent goin to appear anytime soon! "Awww loike nowons answerdin at da statuuun love noo oi deea if theyre on tenoite" Brilliant..it is dublin bus after all! €25 in a taxi home :mad:

Got soaked again waiting on the bus to work then this mornin and sat there with 50 equally as rain sodden knackered lookin people, rivers of condensation flinging itself of the windows so i couldnt even have a kip for a few minutes!

Got off the bus an hour and 15 minutes later only for the bus behind to fly by and splash me ..lovely...so i have now turned up in work, hungover,p*ssed off,wanting to emigrate and i have to drag around waterlogged dog earred lookin jean legs all day!

I love you car i should never have left you it sooo wasnt worth it!! I will happily sit on your heated comfy little seats and never complain about traffic again!:D

Dancor · 30-01-2009 10:48AM

Quit your jibba jabba

chin_grin · 30-01-2009 10:49AM

So you'd rather drive while locked and danger yourself and others for the sake of getting home sooner/drier. Well, it's the moral of the story is it not?

IvySlayer · 30-01-2009 10:52AM

I would love if you broke down on the M50 on the way back from work...

Canis Lupus · 30-01-2009 10:53AM

Jeez.... Try cycling you baby.

anniehoo · 30-01-2009 10:54AM

IvySlayer wrote: »

I would love if you broke down on the M50 on the way back from work...

Would still prefer it than having to get the bus ever again!

Mena · 30-01-2009 10:56AM

chin_grin wrote: »

So you'd rather drive while locked and danger yourself and others for the sake of getting home sooner/drier. Well, it's the moral of the story is it not?

Glass half empty eh? Maybe he'd rather not drink at all so as to be able to drive in the morning, as opposed to immediately assuming he's going to drive pissed from now on?

Just a thought :pac:

suitseir · 30-01-2009 11:09AM

Good for you annie. I agree, I would prefer the comfort of my car anyday than wait for any bus that never arrives on time. When you hear of Bus Eireann cutting routes around the country I say, they should also look at the disgraceful service in our cities. Compare our service with those in other European countries. I go to what was East Germany and have had occasion to take the local transport.......what a difference, bus and trams ON TIME...never over packed, and in many cases drivers who are polite and yea, they even smile!!!! Stick with your car girl....and the next time you go for a drink after work, you would be better of...even financially....to kip in a hotel close by to your workplace what with all the cheap accommodation around at present....with the price of a taxi both ways, I am sure you would do better.

Degsy · 30-01-2009 11:10AM

Oh the humanity.

Sleipnir · 30-01-2009 11:16AM

I was walking into work this morning and some fool in car was trying to take an illegal right. Cue the horns blariing, people winding down their windows and roaring to "GETDAFUKOUTDAWAY!" One guy being told to shut up by a cyclist. Cyclist then gets roared at.
Driver eventually takes his illegal turn, Cue the screeching tyres, the final defiant horn blaring and on to the next junction for more of the same.

Oh what a joy it is to walk to work!

seamus · 30-01-2009 11:18AM

So let's get this straight:

1. You went out drinking without finding out the best way of getting home
2. You didn't get up early enough and so had get on a cramped bus, rather than get up 15 minutes earlier and beat the rush.
3. When you got off the bus, you failed to take stock of the environment around you and inadvertently walked too close to a large puddle.

I got the bus this morning. It was easy. Got up at 7:35. A quick shower and a hop onto the bus at the terminus. In town for 8:40, walked 10 minutes to work, got a cup of coffee and a muffin, sat down at my desk for 9 o'clock and bought two Bruce Springsteen tickets and drank my coffee, utterly content with how well my morning was going.

anniehoo · 30-01-2009 11:20AM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Try cycling you baby.

40 mile round trip...no chance

Sleipnir wrote: »

Oh what a joy it is to walk to work!

If i could afford to buy anywhere close enough to walk id do it in a heartbeat!

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 30-01-2009 11:21AM

Ah yes, after being a commuter for most of my life, I don't know how I ever lived without my car!
Waiting in the rain for over an hour after work, soul destroying stuff.

Mingey · 30-01-2009 11:25AM

It's all well and good to say how great you are about getting public transport, but whena persons area isn't served well and they have little experience with getting the public transport, then don't sit so smugly because you have gotten your morning routine sorted and they haven't.

suitseir · 30-01-2009 11:25AM

seamus wrote: »

So let's get this straight:

1. You went out drinking without finding out the best way of getting home
2. You didn't get up early enough and so had get on a cramped bus, rather than get up 15 minutes earlier and beat the rush.
3. When you got off the bus, you failed to take stock of the environment around you and inadvertently walked too close to a large puddle.

I got the bus this morning. It was easy. Got up at 7:35. A quick shower and a hop onto the bus at the terminus. In town for 8:40, walked 10 minutes to work, got a cup of coffee and a muffin, sat down at my desk for 9 o'clock and bought two Bruce Springsteen tickets and drank my coffee, utterly content with how well my morning was going.

You have made me long for a muffin but I have been told that they are seriously high in calories....but what the heck! And as for Bruce Springsteen....I think I will skip!!!:)

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 30-01-2009 11:26AM

seamus wrote: »

I got the bus this morning.
...
utterly content with how well my morning was going.

Lets face it, not every day is going to be like that. If it was pissing rain when you got off the bus and you had to walk 10 minutes to your work, you would be sitting there in soaking clothes, with your Bruce Springsteen, not so content.

If you get stuck working late and you miss the bus home - god knows how long you're going to be waiting for the next bus. Even if the bus services your route every 30minutes, in rush hour traffic it's never going to be on time.

anniehoo · 30-01-2009 11:26AM

seamus wrote: »

1. You went out drinking without finding out the best way of getting home

I had figured out the best way of getting home. Last bus into town and the supposed nitelink home. The thursday routes are meant to be on until feb 2nd. I live 20 miles from work!Its not that easy!
http://www.dublinbus.ie/your_journey/nitelink_info.asp Obviously that wasnt the case.

wrote:

2. You didn't get up early enough and so had get on a cramped bus, rather than get up 15 minutes earlier and beat the rush.

Is 7.20am early enough for ya? The last direct bus from blanchardstown to work is at 8am after that its 2 buses...eh...no thanks the one was bad enough!

wrote:

3. When you got off the bus, you failed to take stock of the environment around you and inadvertently walked too close to a large puddle.

I didnt have time to look properly! The bus moved off and the next one flew up before i had a chance to step back!:rolleyes:

seamus · 30-01-2009 11:30AM

Well, you could have gotten out bed at 6am. That's the recession way!

And maybe the other bus driver thought you looked like you needed something to wake you up?

S.I.R · 30-01-2009 11:32AM

my bangers off the road so i had to take the bus.... waiting 55 minutes for a bus.... Wtf.... this isnt Rosscommon, 3 garages within 10 minutes of each other yet yey lasy clunts cant get up and drive ??

w/\nkers.

Wagon · 30-01-2009 11:37AM

seamus wrote: »

Well, you could have gotten out bed at 6am.

Do you have ANY idea how difficult that is when you aren't you?

seamus · 30-01-2009 11:38AM

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

Lets face it, not every day is going to be like that. If it was pissing rain when you got off the bus and you had to walk 10 minutes to your work, you would be sitting there in soaking clothes, with your Bruce Springsteen, not so content.

It was raining when I got off the bus. I don't mind rain all that much. If it was really bad, I'd have brought an umberella.

Yes, this morning was a rare one. That's why I usually cycle to work.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 30-01-2009 11:51AM

seamus wrote: »

It was raining when I got off the bus. I don't mind rain all that much. If it was really bad, I'd have brought an umberella.

Yes, this morning was a rare one. That's why I usually cycle to work.

Umbrellas don't stop your trousers getting wet, and in this country it's usually so windy that it has been known to "rain sideways" :pac: - nothing worse than sitting in wet trousers all day!

Although it does have it's benifits in the summer.

el_tiddlero · 30-01-2009 12:20PM

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

Umbrellas don't stop your trousers getting wet, and in this country it's usually so windy that it has been known to "rain sideways" :pac: - nothing worse than sitting in wet trousers all day!

Although it does have it's benifits in the summer.

you may be interested in a product known as Rain Trousers. They are waterproof leggings that you can put on over your normal trousers, and will keep you dry through the mightiest deluges..

ejmaztec · 30-01-2009 12:25PM

el_tiddlero wrote: »

you may be interested in a product known as Rain Trousers. They are waterproof leggings that you can put on over your normal trousers, and will keep you dry through the mightiest deluges..

Ah, but do they look good?

el_tiddlero · 30-01-2009 12:31PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Ah, but do they look good?

it's all in how you wear them my friend, if you are a man of style, then it shall be no trouble to you.

I myself am particularly fond of pulling them halfway down on the train when I sit, so as not to get the seat wet for the next person - such a willingness to expose oneself, combined with a genuine concern for the wellbeing of others, goes a long way to increasing your style quotient.

wandatowell · 30-01-2009 12:32PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Ah, but do they look good?

not really but my dry jeans look great in work:pac:

Bricriu · 30-01-2009 12:49PM

What's all this moaning and groaning about Dublin Bus. I sold my car ages ago because of Dublin streeets being clogged up with cars (yes cars!) and it being very difficult to move around the city.

I now use buses all the time and the service is vey good. Most buses come along according to the timetable and they come much more frequently than years ago (I suspect that people base their perspective on Dulbin Bus on a time before the Government was forced to start subsidising it properly).

I have absolutely no connection with Dublin Bus but think it gets very unfair comment from people who are married to their cars and use the buses once in a blue moon, from people who think that mixing with others on buses is dangerous and possibly bad for their health, from people who have a 'privatise everything' agenda, and from people who don't put their minds in gear before they open their mouth.

Just look at what happened in Britian when a lot of the train and bus services were privatised: their adherence to the timetable is no better than when they were a public service. The Nightlink is great too and gets you home fast. Look at the LUAS (which is private): it takes 45 minutes to get to Tallaght, and it has a dedicated (off-road) track for a part of that journey. Buses get there nearly as fast.

I take my hat off to Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann staff who do a good job for a public who unfairly moan and groan about easy targets.

A pity the Government is cutting back on an essential service; they should leave it as is and raise the money needed by tolling private car-users who insist on driving into the city on unessential journeys.

anniehoo · 30-01-2009 01:03PM

Bricriu wrote: »

The Nightlink is great too and gets you home fast.

It certainly wasnt last night

..and the day before payday aswell..just aswell i had a few quid left to pay for a taxi to get home!

Cianos · 30-01-2009 01:31PM

The amount of cars with one person sitting in them clogging up the roads (and I presume OP is one of them) are the real cause of traffic congestion. So when you have to take the bus along with all the riff raff, you only have yourselves to blame if it takes longer than expected.

edit; this illustrates my point nicely http://randomdude.com/images/car-bus-bike.jpg

Setun · 30-01-2009 01:36PM

Welcome to The Club of Passive-Agressive Benevolent Commuters. There's a radiator in the corner to dry your clothes, and the group of people in the corner are discussing the letters of complaint to CIE they're never going to write. Introduce yourself, they're commuters too, they share your pain.

TestTransmission · 30-01-2009 01:38PM

Im off today,is it raining outside?

I love you car,ill never leave you again!

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