...not quite ready for the internet age just yet.
Just been trying to book some train tickets for tomorrow. Groan. It's an exercise in frustration and heartbreak. First off - all the sites are difficult to navigate. Then they insist on you creating a user account (untick all the 'would you like us to spam you to death' boxes). Choose timetable - no, I do NOT want to travel all the way into London and out again thank you very much. That's taking two steps back to start going forward. Lame-ass. (The UK has this weird rail system that assumes anyone only ever wants to travel *into* London. Probably why that City is so stupidly over-crowded is that once people have travelled there they can't ever find a way of getting out again.) Choose ticket. Oh. Why can't I just have a cheap return - what are all these other options that are so phonemonally expensive that you'll need to take out a second mortgage to be able to afford? Why is it cheaper to buy a whole series of single tickets to get somewhere -even when you end up sitting on the exact same train - than it is to buy a bog standard return? This is insane. Thank you privatised railway system - you've made all our lives so much better and less complicated. Right buy ticket... oh hang on. I can only designate a set Station to pick my tickets up from ... but my station isn't on the list. There isn't even a station near me on the list I can use? Why can't I just book, pay for and pick up my tickets at my local station? No reason. Just can't. Only other option. Same day delivery. Why does it cost £10? That's extortionate! I'm led to believe Tesco only charge you a fiver to deliver a whole mass of grocies - how heavy is a few cards? Oh wait... type in my Postcode. Turns out they don't deliver in my postal area anyway. That was a good hour of my life totally wasted. Why wasn't it somewhere on the front page that I might be totally unable to buy tickets online?
Aaaaaargh!!!!
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