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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article , proto@panix.com   
   says...   
   >   
   > In article ,   
   >  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   
      
   For most communities in the US the train doesn't come near as close as   
   the plane, seeing as far more have some kind of air service than have   
   train service, and the railroad station isn't always in that convenient   
   a location either.   
      
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