Made me and others smile.

martyjon

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 1941

Made me and others smile.

« on: June 11, 2019, 03:48:28 »

Walking down the Temple Meads incline yesterday afternoon an Irishman got off the A1 from the airport and yelled out 'young man' and pointed at me and continued, "can ye tell mee whur de oliday in is". I pointed across the road and said, "there". A complementary thank you followed just as a bus turned up into the incline.The Irishman in a loud voice bleeted out to all and sundry around, "cor blimey, I never knowd that Bristol had a suburb called SPICE GIRLS", which brought a smile to my face even though I was soaked through and many other home going commuters were in the same predicament heading for their trains, but they smiled back at me and at the joviality of this lone Irishman. The SPICE GIRLS destination indicator of the bus referred to it as one of a number of buses operating a shuttle service from the station to Ashton Gate stadium for a 30,000 sell out concert by the girl group of that name which caused traffic gridlock in the Central Area of the city and I personally spent 45 minutes travelling from the bottom of the station incline to The Centre just in time to catch the last service of the day of the Y1 but I had a backup because later services operate to my home area from the citys bus station.


	Logged

grahame

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 43948

Re: Made me and others smile.

« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2019, 06:06:40 »

Time will come ... I suspect you get buses in Liverpool to John Lennon ...


	Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member

TonyK

Global Moderator
Hero Member

Posts: 6643

The artist formerly known as Four Track, Now!

Re: Made me and others smile.

« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2019, 14:41:08 »

Quote from: grahame on June 11, 2019, 06:06:40

Time will come ... I suspect you get buses in Liverpool to John Lennon ...

There was a time when Liverpool FC^▸ , the current European champions, were not doing so well. Beneath the statue of John Lennon, where the inscription said "Above us only sky" (from Imagine, by the former mop-top with granny glasses for any younger members) some Scouse wag had added "Below us only Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion."


	Logged

Now, please!

Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

Pages: [1]

« previous next »