The Trains

Jeez, I'm getting pretty fed up with Melbourne's train system. Whoever is running them is mediocre at best. Its so frustrating. It seems these days that every train I want to take I have to wait for. They are always delayed. Today I took one train into Uni and one train home. The train into uni stopped at my station and i got on and grabbed a seat. It was a backwards seat, but I don't care cos riding backwards doesn't make me sick. Then the train just sat there. It sat there and sat there. Other people ran down the ramp to the train and pressed the door button and got on, looking please with themselves, and still the train just sat there. After about 7 minutes, and after another train had been and gone on another platform, people started to get off. I was unsure of what to do, but as I was not in a terrible rush, I decided to sit tight, hope for the best, and read my paper. Then after 12 minutes of sitting there with no information as to what was happening, the train driver announced that the train was faulty and everyone would have to get off. Seeya!!! He sounded like he was drunk and there was not even a hint of an apology. I thought that at the very least they could have given us a little bit of info of what was happening 5 minutes after we had stopped. 12 minutes is unacceptable. Do they teach no customer relations at CONNEX? Either way, what the hell is going on with the trains? The train I then took in the afternoon to get home was delayed by 9 minutes due to a "faulty train". So, today, both of the CONNEX trains I took were faulty and delayed.

In happier news I was incredibly hungry this afternoon on the walk home and I felt like some meat. I didn't know what I should get. I went to a bakery and I was going to get a sausage roll, but they only had pies for $4. I thought that was too much for a crappy pie, so I entertained the idea of going to Grill'd and getting a burger, but $10 for a burger, even though they are good, was also a little out of my price range, so I settled on going to the supermarket and getting my money's worth. I walked down the meat aisle and found some nice tender juicy beef cutlets and grabbed them, $7. I would cook them when I got home. But then as I was walked to the registers I saw hot roasted chicken. There was a small one for $6.50 and I couldn't resist. So I swapped the beef for the chicken and ate the whole thing on the walk home. It was gone by the time I had reached my door and my fingers were all sticky. Finger lick'n good. Yum T-Rex!