Public transport, public disgorgement
15 Sep 2004Apparently, one and the same. I just recieved an SMS message from Sam, who has apparently just had her handbag fall onto the floor of a train, into a puddle of someone elses vomit. Lovely.
On reflection, I realised I’ve never had an experience like this on Sydney’s public transport system. Admittedly, I probably don’t carry a
handbag enough, but that’s another story entirely. No, seriously. I don’t think I’ve ever been vomited on, or even near, on public transport. I’ve been on a bus where someone at the other end urinated in their seat, and on a few more where people have been so drunk that urinating becomes a highly probable event, but it’s never actually affected me, personally. Besides, I can count those incidents on my hands and feet. Yes, I have a normal number of fingers, and toes, just for the record. Well, most days.
So, any Sydney-dwellers, what’re your experiences with such things? Is our public transport system the grossest thing since… umm… something gross? Or isn’t it so bad, aside from a few incidents which could really happen anywhere? Tim Swavley seems to think that even a train that HAS been vomited on, but cleaned up, isn’t worth riding on, judging from his escapades of earlier this week, in which he managed a new record (was it seven trains?) for the highest number of individual trains inbound to the city. He hasn’t got a blog, so I can’t hyperlink you to the full story. Harrass him in person, though. ;-)
Of course, if you’re not from Sydney, what do you think of the public transport systems (if any) in your little corner of the earth? Are such things universally gross, or have we Sydney-siders done something to deserve this especially?