Getting off train

InkSlinger67 · 25-11-2011 09:43PM

wolf moon wrote: »

No one said it's bad or that one should feel guilty. Read my post again.

I am simply asking what drives people to stand at the train door for 2 minutes, where (in some cases) there is no huge crowd around. It's not happening only in the morning, in Dart full of people rushing to work.

And what one wants to achieve by holding/pressing this damn button when the train is still moving pretty fast I still cannot understand. The train will not stop.

Note: your sarcasm and attempted irony is appreciated.

wolf moon wrote: »

......I see it every single morning while travelling to work - can anyone enlighten me: what do they want to achieve?

Those people just want to push the button.....it's fun!

wolf moon · 25-11-2011 09:45PM

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

Those people just want to push the button.....it's fun!

Now it's making more sense

25-11-2011 10:16PM

wolf moon wrote: »

And what one wants to achieve by holding/pressing this damn button when the train is still moving pretty fast I still cannot understand. The train will not stop.

I lean on the button when approaching the stop (though I only get up when the train is actually pulling into the station), I know I'm going to have to reach over there and press it, so I just lean on it to keep my balance as the train is stopping!

Encountered some people who seem not to be able to find the damn button, they'll stand in front of it, waiting for the doors to magically open, scowling at everyone around who is looking at them expectantly. Have just walked down the carriage and used the other doors, on occasion. Seems to be a lot of these people travelling to Balbriggan.

Niles · 25-11-2011 10:27PM

I've a tendency to do this on the Luas myself for fear of missing my stop.

Fbjm wrote: »

I was on the connolly-sligo train to go to maynooth last wednesday to go to college, and the people across the aisle may as well have had culchie tattooed on their foreheads. An elderly couple with their little bags of ham sandwiches and identical paper cups of coffee, strategically sat beside the bin (I noticed this when the elderly man - with a smug head on him - reached behind him to put his paper coffee cup in the bin, though he had a bit of trouble getting it in :pac: his face said 'this was meant to be easier'). They were obviously on their way home after their annual day out in dublin, probably doing their christmas shopping.

How is any of that "culchie"?

Fbjm wrote: »

Jesus, you're on what you would consider to be a day out! Buy your food on the train at least, they had a good menu on each table. I bet they stood up once they passed longford :rolleyes:

You obviously didn't look at the prices... :rolleyes:

Fbjm · 25-11-2011 11:26PM

Niles wrote: »

I've a tendency to do this on the Luas myself for fear of missing my stop.

How is any of that "culchie"?

You obviously didn't look at the prices... :rolleyes:

Sandwiches on the train? It's the whole GAA match boot of the car thing obviously!

I did look at the prices, 4 euro for any sandwich/roll, a euro for a bar. Not exactly breaking the bank :rolleyes:

irishgirl19 · 25-11-2011 11:37PM

I wondered that too,until you get stuck behind the slowest walkers ever and you can't get by there is so many and nearly end up being late

irishgirl19 · 25-11-2011 11:39PM

I did look at the prices, 4 euro for any sandwich/roll, a euro for a bar. Not exactly breaking the bank :rolleyes:

which train do you be getting.on the arrow line its nearly 2euro for a 330ml can of coke

Mike 1972 · 26-11-2011 12:09AM

Fbjm wrote: »

4 euro for any sandwich/roll,

FFS one can buy two whole loaves of bread for that.

No recession in your house.

coonecb1 · 26-11-2011 12:20AM

I can never understand why people press the button for the lift more than once.

When you press it once, it lights up, indicating that it's on its way.

What do people think, that the more times you press it the quicker the lift comes?

Niles · 26-11-2011 12:24AM

coonecb1 wrote: »

I can never understand why people press the button for the lift more than once.

When you press it once, it lights up, indicating that it's on its way.

What do people think, that the more times you press it the quicker the lift comes?

I've a habit of doing that with pedestrian lights, despite knowing that it has no extra effect whatsoever. I guess it's compulsive!

WoollyRedHat · 26-11-2011 12:27AM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

I know it's shocking. We need a system like in London, where all the slow asses keep to the left and allowing people that have a purpose in life to get where they are going.

****ing escalators. If you're on an escalator, stand to the left, this frees up space so people who are in a rush can walk down the escalator. Everyone wins!

Posy · 26-11-2011 12:30AM

Fbjm wrote: »

I did look at the prices, 4 euro for any sandwich/roll, a euro for a bar. Not exactly breaking the bank :rolleyes:

I'm obviously one of the few people left that still thinks €4 for a sandwich is a bloody rip off.

Niles · 26-11-2011 12:31AM

irishgirl19 wrote: »

which train do you be getting.on the arrow line its nearly 2euro for a 330ml can of coke

I remember last year Rail Gourmet had a limited time "special offer" of a can of mineral + a packet of crisps for €2 - despite the fact that that's the normal price in many shops - you couldn't make this stuff up, though I wish I had.

Why anyone who knows their prices still chooses to purchase stuff like this on the train when they can just get in a shop before hand is beyond me.

Posy · 26-11-2011 12:32AM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

If you're on an elevator, stand to the left, this frees up space so people who are in a rush can walk down the elevator.

You don't walk down an elevator. You stand on an elevator..
You walk down an escalator.

efb · 26-11-2011 12:33AM

Niles wrote: »

I remember last year Rail Gourmet had a limited time "special offer" of a can of mineral + a packet of crisps for €2 - despite the fact that that's the normal price in many shops - you couldn't make this stuff up, though I wish I had.

Why anyone who knows their prices still chooses to purchase stuff like this on the train when they can just get in a shop before hand is beyond me.

convenience- not everyone has time to pop to the shop

WoollyRedHat · 26-11-2011 12:37AM

Posy wrote: »

You don't walk down an elevator. You stand on an elevator..
You walk down an escalator.

Duly noted, thank you.

ryoishin · 26-11-2011 12:40AM

I hate when people go crazy to get on the train and don't give the people on the train a chance to get off. You'd swear the Nazis were coming to eradicate those standing in the aisle and you had to get a seat.

Posy · 26-11-2011 12:42AM

I'm not a 'culchie' and I would much rather make a nice lot of sandwiches with lovely batch bread and leftover roast chicken/ham etc than pay nearly a tenner for two sandwiches on a train.
However, if I didn't have any food with me and was just after getting on a train and was starving, I would pay the rip-off prices, as efb said, for convenience.

There are people on my bus every morning that get up, and stand there, crammed like sardines, for 3-4 minutes waiting for the city centre stop. I don't get that at all, it does not make any difference. There's always so many getting off that I don't even have to get up until the bus actually stops and I usually end up standing at the traffic lights beside the same people who were nearly crushed waiting to get off.

bijapos · 26-11-2011 12:47AM

Fbjm wrote: »

Sandwiches on the train? It's the whole GAA match boot of the car thing obviously!

I did look at the prices, 4 euro for any sandwich/roll, a euro for a bar. Not exactly breaking the bank :rolleyes:

There were two of them, going up and down from Sligo for the day. A €4 sambo and €1 bar each on the way up, and the same on the way down for two people makes €20. Half a loaf and enough ham for 4 sambos and a multipack of bars is about €5-€6. Nice saving, enough for 4 pints when they get home (culchie prices).

Posy wrote: »

You don't walk down an elevator. You stand on an elevator..
You walk down an escalator.

Just call it a lift. It avoids confusion.;)

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