Re: Wyong stupidity

[arthur marsh <marsh@ties.itu.int>]

This situation is excellently illustrated in the Jacque Tatit movie
"Monseiur Hulot's Holiday".

On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, petan@ion.com.au wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> are they actually asking for a factual answer or are they in need of
> emotional reassurance? 
> 
> Remember lots of platform announcements turn out to be false.. such as
> the many times we passengers are told to wait on platform X but the
> train actually arrives on platform Y and we have to make a mad rush up
> stairs, over a crowded footbridge and down another set of crowded
> stairs while we hope the train waits for us! It is worse if a subway
> is involved as we can at least keep the train in sight as we race over
> stairs /footbridges; in subways we loose sight of the train and just
> hope we have the correct platform tunnel!
> 
> The topic is not to blame the train crew or to blame the platform
> staff. Usually it is some other fault caused by some other train
> running out of sequence but we passengers are just frustrated!!  
> 
> Cheers
> Peter
> 
>