nobody cares about the railroads anymore

hi

it wasn't really a plan, intention or ambition to do so, but yesterday (or the day before i published this) i took a train ride. nothing particularly untoward or, on a universal level, interesting about this in itself, look you see. but then there also exists a dynamic by which it may very well be in doing so i was one of the last few to ride a train in the country. 

should yesterday have been the day i took the train, then tomorrow is the day of the start of the proposed great strikes. at least provisionally, i suppose i should qualify that. oh, there is a vague semblance of chance that the intended (encouraged) action shall be avoided, but this looks unlikely. whilst i profess no level of expertise or great knowledge, it seems that those calling for the strike, the unions, are making demands of a measure they know full well shall not be obligated.

above, and indeed below, is/are images of the three (3) bits of card (or paper) issued to me off of the train people for purposes of the ride i took. no, i wasn't going to waste Commodore 64 mode on these, so yes they are presented in the considerably lesser format of ZX Spectrum, or if you will ZX Spactrum, as it was more widely referred to across school playgrounds in the 80s. 

this is all stuff i have written of before, but the trains being on strike really does little to make official, in a way, the plight of those of us who try to use them. for years now they have been unreliable, with a whole wide range of "reasons" given as to why they are cancelled, late, delayed or abandoned on a daily basis. planning to get somewhere on a train (and back) in the modern era is to invite a sense of fear and anxiety into your life, for not even when you are sat on it can you be sure you shall get to where you need, or wish, to be. i am pretty sure that we were always supposed to make "the future" easier as we went, not more complex and difficult.

for what reason are they on strike? money, of course. that is the base motivation for all. like everyone else momentarily it is a struggle for them who work on trains to afford energy, food and what have you. but, unlike all others, rail employees consider themselves "special", and believe that they should be paid well more than anyone else. not that they are content to "just" accept more money, oh no. as i recall, a few years ago, those strike-excited pr!cks of TfL went on strike when they were offered (even) more money for less work. one cannot win with these types. 

could this be the strike which finally collapses the rail industry? i mean, the one that sees all of us just go f*** this, enough, no more, and no one uses them ever again? possibly. unlikely, but at some stage all shall be just fed up with it. every now and then, if it is the case that the rail network is no more, it was convenient and practical to use a train, i suppose, but let's draw lines near words such as fun, or even enjoyable. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!