favour
listen to this favour story :)
I was asked for a favour from a friend of my sister, who lives in Scotland, to meet her brother and mother. They are coming from Moscow, and I had to show a way to the central coach station and put them on the bus to Edinburgh. It is late flight and if anything goes wrong, I will need to find them place to sleep, somewhere in my house.
Now, the airport is two hours from my house, and to the coach station is one hour.
Will you accept doing it ?
Originally I have sad no, but as a personal favour to my sister I have decided to help.
Now, we have agreed that they will land, take tube and come to my tube station and I will meet them there and travel with them to the coach station. if anything goes wrong I will find them place to stay.
As was planned, they have called me from the airport and said that they are taking the tube. I went to the tube and started waiting. It was 21:30 ...
At 22:30 I started to worry, coz the bus is at 23:00.
I went down to the platforms, there I was told that Piccadilly line has severe delays due to person ill on the train. (At that point I remembered my sister saying that mother is ill, I thought ... oh no ... )
At 23:30 ... nobody has appeared ... and they people do not have any mobile .. so I cannot call them and I have this information that there is somebody ill on the train.
And I know that mother doesnot speak english while brother speaks just a little ...
at 00:30 I took the last train home. Came home around 1:30am ... and went to bed ...
today morning I have received a text from my sisters friend saying that she is really sorry .. her relatives have missed the tube station and because they run out of time they have decided finding the bus station by them selves ... and now they are safely in Edinburgh ....
What a lovely way to spend an evening ... waiting 3 hours at the tube ... I should have putted a hat at least ... ;)
I was asked for a favour from a friend of my sister, who lives in Scotland, to meet her brother and mother. They are coming from Moscow, and I had to show a way to the central coach station and put them on the bus to Edinburgh. It is late flight and if anything goes wrong, I will need to find them place to sleep, somewhere in my house.
Now, the airport is two hours from my house, and to the coach station is one hour.
Will you accept doing it ?
Originally I have sad no, but as a personal favour to my sister I have decided to help.
Now, we have agreed that they will land, take tube and come to my tube station and I will meet them there and travel with them to the coach station. if anything goes wrong I will find them place to stay.
As was planned, they have called me from the airport and said that they are taking the tube. I went to the tube and started waiting. It was 21:30 ...
At 22:30 I started to worry, coz the bus is at 23:00.
I went down to the platforms, there I was told that Piccadilly line has severe delays due to person ill on the train. (At that point I remembered my sister saying that mother is ill, I thought ... oh no ... )
At 23:30 ... nobody has appeared ... and they people do not have any mobile .. so I cannot call them and I have this information that there is somebody ill on the train.
And I know that mother doesnot speak english while brother speaks just a little ...
at 00:30 I took the last train home. Came home around 1:30am ... and went to bed ...
today morning I have received a text from my sisters friend saying that she is really sorry .. her relatives have missed the tube station and because they run out of time they have decided finding the bus station by them selves ... and now they are safely in Edinburgh ....
What a lovely way to spend an evening ... waiting 3 hours at the tube ... I should have putted a hat at least ... ;)
posted by KGena at 2:24 AM
4 Comments:
Dear brother
I am very sorry for this sad story:(
I appreciate very much your halp, you are the best brother in the world!!!
Whiskey on me
Kiss
Dear friend,
When I have read you post, I decided to share with you some experience of mine. My story is very similar to yours one.
Here it comes (it will be long so be patient) :
Once I have decided to visit friend of mine that lives in London (I think you know him). I took a late flight from Israel to Stansted Airport. I had two options to get the Victoria Station (where my friend was supposed to meet me at 10:30pm):
1.To take a coach - 2 hrs.
2.To take a train - 40 minutes.
I decided to save money and to take the bus (later I realised that it was the right decision).
It was very cold winter night and I had two really heavy bags.
When I reached the Victoria station I didn't find my friend there.It was very cold and lonely night in foreign city...
My friend was late for more than hour (how damn good that I didn't take the train).
It was late and we missed the tube so we went his place by bus + nice long walk with heavy bags.
That is life, brother, sometimes you on the train and sometimes you on the station....
Have a nice day:-)!
Bratok
P.S.
There is one VERRY IMPORTANT CONCLUSION of my story:
Your sister can send the whiskey directly to ME (I prefer Jameson)!!! :-)
Bratok
donot even think of getting the wiskey bottle ... you can get one, if you come here once again ;)
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