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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Robert Bannister  wrote   
   > 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   
      
   You still save heaps of time over using a train or bus.   
      
   In my case you blow an entire day to use the train or bus   
   to get to the state capital instead of a couple of hours at   
   most with the plane.   
      
   In your case you save days.   
      
   > and the airfield is miles away from where you want to go.   
      
   So is the train and bus station.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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