I’ve not had a good day
Thanks to Freddie and Martha I’ve pretty much been up since 3am this morning.
When I came down to get a cup of tea in the morning, I stood, barefooted, right in some cat sick.
When I got to the train station, our train was cancelled due to a signalling fault, there was a replacement coach service, but that’s not really an option with a double buggy and two toddlers, so I had to go from Coventry to Leamington via Birmingham New Street (taking at least an hour and a half longer than my usual 10 minute train journey). I’m also pretty sure the problem had been fixed for the train an hour later from Coventry, and so I would have been better off just waiting there.
On the way home, our train from Leamington got about one minute out of the station before stopping for half an hour. There was then an announcement that there was another signalling fault, and the train would return to Leamington before continuing directly to New Street.
I got off in Leamington to phone to get someone to pick us up, and when buying a sandwich for Freddie there was an announcement that the next train would be stopping in Coventry, I checked with station staff, and they assured me it would be.
When that train also stopped just one minute outside Leamington I prepared myself to run through the train screaming and killing. Luckily for the other passengers the train eventually got going again, and so the killing spree was cancelled.
In total, what should have been two 10 minute train journeys took around FOUR HOURS!!!!!!!
Luckily for everyone Freddie and Martha are going away to my mum’s for the weekend, as otherwise there was a great possibility they may not have made it through the weekend alive.
If anyone knows Jo the CrossCountry Trains train manager who was on the 10:33 from New Street to Leamington Spa, tell her I am sorry for arguing with her for so long, however, she is a stupid fucking jobsworth, and so I have only a little sympathy for adding some stress to her day, and bet my day was a lot more stressful than hers.
