XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 18/01/2014 1:10 pm, Rod Speed wrote:   
   > Robert Bannister  wrote   
   >> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote   
   >>> Robert Bannister wrote   
   >>>> Your Name wrote   
   >   
   >>>>> It is quite annoying to see a train go whizzing past ... until you   
   >>>>> realise you don't have some annoying kid kicking the back of your seat   
   >>>>> all the way, a teenager with his iPod turned up full volume, a drunken   
   >>>>> smelly guy sitting opposite you who looks like he'll be sick at any   
   >>>>> minute, a gossipy old woman sitting next to you who won't shut up, the   
   >>>>> inability to properly open a window in the middle of summer, ...   
   >   
   >>>> Some people just don't like people. At my age, I wouldn't travel on the   
   >>>> train at night, but it would be fine by day if only it went somewhere I   
   >>>> want to go.   
   >   
   >>> I like people in controlled circumstances. I don't like crowds of   
   >>> people with whom I have no known relationship or common purpose (i.e., a   
   >>> convention has some common ground for attendees, but being in public   
   >>> transportation is just random people not even necessarily going to the   
   >>> same place; I can sorta deal with it in planes because, well, PLANE!   
   >>> FLYING!, which still gets me even today). So public transportation is   
   >>> something I avoid whenever possible, though I've gotten past it as an   
   >>> immobilizing problem; I can take the Metro if I have to when I'm in   
   >>> Washington, for instance.   
   >   
   >> I hate flying.   
   >   
   > I hate the alternatives much more.   
   >> You can't move around because there are always two cabin crew blocking   
   >> the aisle with their food/drinks trolley.   
   >   
   > No there isnt.   
   >> You a squashed on a too narrow seat with insufficient leg room,   
   >   
   > The seats are fine for me, even with the Saab 340Bs.   
   >> and you have to suffer this for anything betwenn 2-8 hours.   
   >   
   > Only if you are silly enough to 'live' in some pimple   
   > on the bum of the biggest island on earth.   
   >> I couldn't stand a two hour bus journey either,   
   >   
   > Which is why I'm never stupid enough to use them for that sort of trip.   
   > In spades   
   > with the ones that take 12 hours to do what the plane does in an hour.   
   >> but trains aren't so bad if they're not crowded.   
   >   
   > Makes no sense to take days to do what the plane can do in a couple of   
   > hours.   
      
   Except they want you there 40 minutes or more before take-off and the   
   airfield is miles away from where you want to go.   
      
   --   
   Robert Bannister - 1940-71 SE England   
                       1972-now W Australia   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)