Agatha Christie, the famous mystery writer and author of "Murder on the Orient Express", once said:
"Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life."
And she wasn't wrong. Riding a train sure gives you a glimpse into human nature, and reminds you just how stupid people are.
A couple of examples:
"Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life."
And she wasn't wrong. Riding a train sure gives you a glimpse into human nature, and reminds you just how stupid people are.
A couple of examples:
Translation: "Look, little Jean Pierre...an umbrella...a bag...oh, and some Chinese people! What a special day this is!" FYI, Monsieur "I'm-teaching-my-son-to-be-a-racist-whilst-broadening-his-vocabulary", the guy next to me was Japanese.And this next one happened to my Dad on the way from Mallaig to Glasgow:
Oh, are you an astronaut? No? It's just that I was reading an article on space travel and just assumed the next person I saw would be an astronaut. A simple mistake. Dumbarse. My dad doesn't even look Nepalese. Seriously, random much? (Btw, my dad doesn't actually have hydrocephalus, I just drew his head real big and mine real small)Agatha Christie had some romantic thoughts on train travel. Don't get me wrong, I do too - it just involves me not sitting next to anyone and staring out the window.
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