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November 18, 2003
Train Trip
Took a train trip up from London to Edinburgh today. It was a lovely trip up through rolling hills and wonderful farmland. The English countryside is every bit as wonderful as you would think.
But this family got on at York. A small kid, maybe five, a woman far to young to be a mother and grandma. The kid was out of control. Yelling, screaming, throwing his toys around. He'd mutter "Christ, the trains stopping again!" and things like that.
They proceed to give him some sips of coffee!?!
That really helped. Argh. Almost three and half hours of that bouncing, loud out of control kid. Urgh.
But I got here and went and had a pint. That made things better.
Posted by Samer at November 18, 2003 04:29 PM
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maybe they thought it was a caffiene headache. They should have just vien him a few sips of whiskey.
Posted by: Monkey at November 18, 2003 05:19 PM
Hah! Indeed, a wee dram never hurt no one.
Posted by: Samer at November 19, 2003 08:27 AM
Turns out you and I are having a parallel experience. I went to the doctor's yesterday for a check up and as I waited, the lobby filled up with kids--screaming, crying, throwing toys at each other, denting the other patients' knees with large toys.
To paraphrase Dilbert,
"must...control...fist..of...death..."
Posted by: Slobah at November 19, 2003 12:51 PM
That is awful Siobhan... At least I had an iPod with which to try and drown the kid out...
On the return trip, they were also on my train. Same car, just further down this time. What sort of gods did I piss off for that to happen?
Posted by: Samer at November 23, 2003 07:04 AM