XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: proto@panix.com   
      
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    Robert Bannister  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   And at least now you don't get groped getting on the train. In the USA   
   always a possibility. See "Grandma Got Molested at the Airport." it's   
   on youtube   
      
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