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Donal Quinn · 27-07-2006, 11:25

boarded train at thurles on saturday evening after the most depressing game of hurling in my life, brightenend only by the fact that cloonan stuffed it to the rest of the county (and country) by coming on and setting up 3 goals (one disallowed) and scoring a penalty...

to cut a long story short 3 people were sitting on reserved seats (including mine) and had to move. (i didn't move them but a cork woman had no bones about that).

I'm pretty sure that there was no signs put up saying that the seats were reserved as the train was fairly empty arriving into thurles and the people in the seat then had to stand all the way to cork whereas if they had sat into the unreserved table accross the way they would have been fine.

basically when IE are lazy about putting up the seat reserved signs then somebody gets shafted, either the guy with the reserved ticket who is to timid to move someone out of the way (not easy if they're drunk scumbags, i've seen it happen) or the chump who sits in an unmarked seat and then has to vacate it and stand for an hour or two when the train fills up. ..

27-07-2006, 11:25	#50
Donal Quinn Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 267	boarded train at thurles on saturday evening after the most depressing game of hurling in my life, brightenend only by the fact that cloonan stuffed it to the rest of the county (and country) by coming on and setting up 3 goals (one disallowed) and scoring a penalty... to cut a long story short 3 people were sitting on reserved seats (including mine) and had to move. (i didn't move them but a cork woman had no bones about that). I'm pretty sure that there was no signs put up saying that the seats were reserved as the train was fairly empty arriving into thurles and the people in the seat then had to stand all the way to cork whereas if they had sat into the unreserved table accross the way they would have been fine. basically when IE are lazy about putting up the seat reserved signs then somebody gets shafted, either the guy with the reserved ticket who is to timid to move someone out of the way (not easy if they're drunk scumbags, i've seen it happen) or the chump who sits in an unmarked seat and then has to vacate it and stand for an hour or two when the train fills up. .. Last edited by Donal Quinn : 27-07-2006 at 11:27.