Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Irritating people on trains

Third Rate Western have managed to get me to London on time this morning and, midway through the return journey, they seem in significant danger of getting me home on time too. So to while away the time, I shall direct my simmering annoyance at my fellow passengers. Specifically the one opposite me.

Perhaps the message she is trying to give out is "Look at me, I have an iPhone". Well big deal, love, we don't want to hear the damn thing beep every time you touch its screen. Perhaps this wouldn't be so bad, but it looks very much like she is trying to prove that, just like monkeys with typewriters, if you jab an iPhone enough times the entire works of Shakespeare will emerge.

I could move to the quiet coach, I suppose, but since all the table seats were removed, I'm quite keen to retain my legroom. I could vent my spleen, but she looks quite phsychotic to be honest and I'm not sure I want to incur her wrath. She is now doing the crossword and seems very pleased with herself for writing in the word "dog". Into a 6-letter space beginning with R, but at least she's enjoying herself. Ok I might have made up the bit about the dog.

1 comment:

UKTrainMan said...

I wouldn't have 'vented my spleen' about her directly in her line of vision either, with the way Apple promotes the iPhone and the "App Store" it suggests that there would probably be some kind of mind-warpingly-twisted application available for the iPhone that either makes it into a very sharp, very dangerous knife or perhaps a rather powerful double-barrelled shotgun.