What the train did to me...

[yakalskovich]

...or why I arrived hellishly late for work today.

Because they have changed totally everything about the system of suburban trains in Munich, as of today, in one fell swoop!!

All the train numbers have been shuffled around, and the times, and the famed new every-ten-minutes system is only good for mornings and evenings during rush hour, when I rarely need it anyway, and OMG I am so confused!!!

In loggage format:

Yakkie: arrives at the train station as per usual.
Train Nr S5: arrives at slightly odd time, but Munich trains, you know...
Yakkie: jumps aboard S5, sits, draws out book and is lost.
Book: ...Ihlini magic...sex...big cats...people swear by Asar-Suti as matter of course...sex...Lochiel...Ihlini magic...glass-columned cavern...purkle light...the Gate is a pool in the ground...Asar-Suti!!...
Yakkie: Whoah!!! is transfixed
Train Nr S5: Fasangarten!
Yakkie: What pheasant what?? What?? By Asar-Suti, I'm not friggin' supposed to be here!! What happened?? Runs out of train and stares at utterly unfamiliar station.

And then the train back took its own sweet time to arrive, and then I had to find out which train now goes to where I am supposed to go, and then it has to come and...

Oh urgs! Underworld! I feel like visiting burnination by purkle flames on the utter morons who changed a running system in that way!

Comments

[lily22.livejournal.com]

Well, at least that was okay. :) Are you managing okay with the train now?

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

The trick is leaving five minutes earlier from home, and five minutes later from work, I've found out. And take the train number S4 instead of S5. Is all. Nothing really changed much, just everybody got royally confused.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

P.S. Sotrry metapost; this is just a character I'm RPing at milliways_bar.

[lily22.livejournal.com]

xD Cool. Anyway, glad it's working out... Maybe once you get used to it it'll be easier than before? :D;;;

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Once I get used to it, it's exactly the same pain in the rear as before, as I tend to avoid the two hours of rush hour in the morning and evening respectively, when the trains go every ten minutes now - simply because I can, and don't have to press in with everyone else. So, the more things change, the more they stay the same, with a short break yesterday for everyone to go WTF. Duh.-

[lily22.livejournal.com]

Oh. Er, well, that's good, then, at least according to Vetinari. :)