Comments | voxwoman: The waiting, she is killing me

voxwoman

The waiting, she is killing me

Aug 30, 2007 11:24

This latest buyer presented us with his laundry list of borked things in the house. But I think he's looking for a concession at closing, which will eat into even more of the pittance we're going to walk away from the house with. We are now discussing how large that concession is going to be. I think I'm going to have to be content with just paying ( Read more... )

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No Rickshaw? saminz August 31 2007, 09:43:48 UTC

Awwww... See - brings bad luck ;-P.

(Would you really dare your whole family in one of these?!)

That's quite nasty, about the trains. Are they changing schedules around all the time, too? Maybe you could subscribe to some sort of online or sms information? We can, here. I'm told it works, even.

Plus, the stations do a remarkably good job with barking out that "train 18, which was supposed to be on lane 1 about now, will be stopping on lane 3 in a minute, while train 6, which was supposed to go there, ends up ten minutes late, on lane 2, thank you."
I had the fun of joining that underground commuter ballet - a rather hasty and crowded version - on wednesday, when I changed trains to the main station. Hilarious, if you don't need to do it every day ;-P.

Re: No Rickshaw? voxwoman August 31 2007, 13:25:12 UTC

I think it was more bad planning. They do announce the trains, but it's a dice toss whether you can hear or understand the announcements. The trains themselves don't have express/local indicators on them, unfortunately (and we need a local train to get to our stop).

Re: No Rickshaw? saminz August 31 2007, 14:02:31 UTC

Rats. No indication whatsoever if it's a local or not?! VERY unfortunate, that...

Crikey. What if you end up on an "intercity"? At least you still have people in there who can tell you where to get off ;-). I kind of liked that system there. Still - poor tourists!