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ford_of_bruinen more big Best Wishes messages. Heh. Well, might as well:
Anyhow - where have I been? Well, being visited by Avvie. We didn't actually do a great deal of sightseeing in Manchester, mainly owing to my rather abysmal ability as a host and utter lack of knowledge of what is interesting to see in Manchester. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it and, I hope, so did he. *adores Avvie*
Got to discover some new stuff and all that. Also was shown the bizarre animations of Salad Fingers.These are rather screwed-up, so I'd suggest possibly not viewing when your boss is hanging over your shoulder; although there's nothing in them that'll get you arrested or condemned to eternal damnation. Just extremely weird.
Anyhow, I miss Avvie already (cue pining, whining and moaning). Avvie had a pretty nice flexible ticket where he could get pretty much any train back home in the next month. So when he saw a train that took a more sensible, direct route than the one on his ticket, we were like, "Yeah!" It was running 10 mins late so we sat down in the loung to wait.
The train gradually became 15, then 20, then 25, 30 and finally 33 minutes late. Every time the board said, "Due in 11 minutes," it would suddenly get another 3 minutes' delay. Eventually, Avvie got bored of this, so went to find out what on earth was going on.
Virgin staff member: "Oh, that one's left."
Avvie: "The board says it hasn't come in yet. It's apparently due at 1800." (Time was about 1750)
Virgin staff member: "No, it's gone."
So why did it say it hadn't arrived yet? Well, apparently it just hadn't been noted that the train had been and gone, or something.
Avvie was left with the question, then, of how Virgin intended to get him home. The man suggested a route that went into London and involved switching from Euston to Paddington via Tube. Except Avvie's ticket didn't cover Tube use. So he persuaded them man to stamp the tickets and allow him to travel on the Tube. And rather sensibly, got the man's name/phone number/station in case anything goes wrong.
Poor sweetie won't be home till about midnight *sends hugs to Avvie*
Bad!Virgin!
Strange weather - very hot, muggy, and pouring with rain. Give me nice, cold, wet rain any day *nods*
ford_of_bruinen more big Best Wishes messages. Heh. Well, might as well:Anyhow - where have I been? Well, being visited by Avvie. We didn't actually do a great deal of sightseeing in Manchester, mainly owing to my rather abysmal ability as a host and utter lack of knowledge of what is interesting to see in Manchester. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it and, I hope, so did he. *adores Avvie*
Got to discover some new stuff and all that. Also was shown the bizarre animations of Salad Fingers.These are rather screwed-up, so I'd suggest possibly not viewing when your boss is hanging over your shoulder; although there's nothing in them that'll get you arrested or condemned to eternal damnation. Just extremely weird.
Anyhow, I miss Avvie already (cue pining, whining and moaning). Avvie had a pretty nice flexible ticket where he could get pretty much any train back home in the next month. So when he saw a train that took a more sensible, direct route than the one on his ticket, we were like, "Yeah!" It was running 10 mins late so we sat down in the loung to wait.
The train gradually became 15, then 20, then 25, 30 and finally 33 minutes late. Every time the board said, "Due in 11 minutes," it would suddenly get another 3 minutes' delay. Eventually, Avvie got bored of this, so went to find out what on earth was going on.
Virgin staff member: "Oh, that one's left."
Avvie: "The board says it hasn't come in yet. It's apparently due at 1800." (Time was about 1750)
Virgin staff member: "No, it's gone."
So why did it say it hadn't arrived yet? Well, apparently it just hadn't been noted that the train had been and gone, or something.
Avvie was left with the question, then, of how Virgin intended to get him home. The man suggested a route that went into London and involved switching from Euston to Paddington via Tube. Except Avvie's ticket didn't cover Tube use. So he persuaded them man to stamp the tickets and allow him to travel on the Tube. And rather sensibly, got the man's name/phone number/station in case anything goes wrong.
Poor sweetie won't be home till about midnight *sends hugs to Avvie*
Bad!Virgin!
Strange weather - very hot, muggy, and pouring with rain. Give me nice, cold, wet rain any day *nods*
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Date: 10 Aug 2004 05:43 (UTC)pwetty weekend!!!
*envies you* ;oP
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Date: 10 Aug 2004 09:48 (UTC)