What's the most disastrous journey you've had to get somewhere?
What's the most disastrous journey you've had to get somewhere?
Got horribly lost and missed your train? Monster delay? Tell us here!
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London to Brighton train. I live somewhere in between. Stayed up 3 nights finishing some coursework, and finally handed it in. Kept falling asleep on the train and waking up at the terminal station, yo-yoing twice between endpoints. At one point the guy at the barrier said "YOU again?" as a joke, but it was too much and I burst into tears.
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Got beat up by aggressive locals on a trip. Spent the night hiding from them. Caught a train in the morning, arrived home completely exhausted in the evening, crossed tracks with some other passengers to save on walking upstairs. Got a ticket for crossing the rails because, beat up, i looked like a bum.
About a year later it was legal to cross the rails in that spot, with no changes made to the infrastructure.
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Would being in a Canadian Armed Forces 707 as it's taking off from Nicosia while the airport is being shelled by the Turks count as disastrous? Or very lucky?
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Holy shit!! You definitely win haha. What was it like going through that?
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Weirdly, the thing that scared me most that day was the enormous cicada that was in the car my dad was driving like a maniac in to get us to Nicosia in the first place. The gunfire and shells barely registered until weeks later. All I knew was my dad looked stressed, my mom looked close to tears, and there were a lot of people constantly staring in the direction of the "fireworks".
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I was once travelling just after the Paddington rail crash when there were mandatory speed restrictions. It was a 25 minute train journey that took nearly 3 hours. This is the days before smart phones so I had to just sit staring at a field bored out of my mind.
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That was not a very nice crash, IIRC.
That bear sure has a lot to answer for! 🙃
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Haha there must have been some marmalade on the tracks...
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I had to fit through a tiny hole to exit a submarine I had already been stranded in for nine months.
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