Total Ownage

As you may already know, we no longer have the privilege of a spacious, cool, at-your-own-time-and-speed set of wheels. This means back to cramped trains that get over stuffed. But we have a way of entertaining ourselves (these chronicles may be published later). Having paid £37, you’d think we’d have some service for it other than a platform where you have to stand for 3.5 hours, and change at 2 or sometimes 3 stops. It’s bad enough when there’s no delay, but at least we won’t be struggling at Taqwa’s leg strengthening tarawees. It really is a privilege to get a seat sometimes, especially when where standing in the part connecting carriages pondering on what a seat once was. Not a few trips back, the 4 of us decided to switch trains and jump into one that was waiting to depart. We got to this one earlier than most people but found all the seats with a “reserved card” on them. Pretty lame joke cards we thought, and sat down. We got ready to laugh together at the people that might come to claim their lame joke cards, and played the 300 scene out loud; “THIS IS WHERE WE FIGHT! THIS IS WHERE THEY DIE! Etc..” for all noobs to hear and know.

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Long queues, waiting around for ages and people annoying you by cutting in… These are a few things that come with the most thrilling rides. But what we experienced was on a different level. In preparation for this nightmarish incident, I bought a 12 month tax disc, £180. Prior to this, the vehicle was inspected and serviced for a charge of £220. Then we set off with a topped up tank, roughly £40, all within 2 weeks before the “slip”.

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It seemed an age the last time we had eggs for breakfast. We had the urge to eat eggs a few weeks back but were unable to as there never seemed to be enough time in the mornings, even with every minute calculated to get ready and set of to uni, the 2 minutes teeth brushing to 4.5 seconds shoe lace tying, we could just not wake up that few extra minutes for the good ol’ andaa bread. So we had to make do with eating dinner in the morning and breakfast at night. At this time, eating this rare Bradford commodity seemed somewhat refreshing, but lacked timing as we really needed this refreshment in the morning, were we’d doze of in, I mean pay attention in lectures.

What we really needed was some sort of an incentive. So the next time we went shopping, we had an extra shopping list filled solely with omelette ingredients, and here we went searching for the eggs worthy of such a list.

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