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@NurseHolliday
ARGH! Bikes on trains!
Had to leave my BMX locked up at Liverpool Lime Street for a whole weekend with a shitty D Lock when some nob at Lime Street said I couldn't take my bike on a Virgin Train unless I pre-booked. I asked if there was any other bikes booked on, customer services said no. So I asked what the problem was. They said, "rules are rules."
At Euston I wasn't allowed on even though I had pre-booked my bike on because I didn't have a ticket for my bike?!? Nowhere on the website does it say you need a ticket for your bike. When I phoned up to book my bike on, I wasn't told I need an extra ticket. I was given a booking reference and that's it. I had to use my best puppy dog eyes at the advance ticket office at Euston to get a hand written ticket allowing my bike on.
The amount of times I've had to stand with my bike because some lazy cunt with a baby in a pushchair insists on sitting in the bike area. Right underneath the big sign that says, "These seats only to be used when not needed for bicycles." There's empty luggage racks, hundreds of seats and they can't be fucked to take their baby out of the push chair and fold the fucker up. You try arguing with a mother and baby though, suddenly you're the cunt for trying to make a valid point. Everybody's huffing and puffing because I'm in their way, but a mother and baby are in my way? Who gives a shit, it's a mother and baby.
On the other hand, I've got my BMX on the circle line at peak time thanks to a really nice guy on the gate at Liverpool Street station who said, "Oh go on then, it's only small."