Gilmer

Thanks, DarklingSong and the rest of you guys!

What a beautiful view, Vman!

venuscat

Oh wow Vinny.

saoutchik

Good to see you U2E and Carlotta!

The travails of travelling on London's Underground rail network Part 1. Travelling in this morning on a crowded train the person standing next to me was extremely "whiffy." Part 2. I got on the train home and next to me in a packed train was a man with a full size railway sleeper!

theVman31

That must have looked odd Sao.
What you think he was doing with it

biminiblue

*sigh*

Ah! edit to say "railway sleeper" I thought was a bed of some sort. Apparently it is what we call a railway tie.

venuscat

ha ha ha.....and I still don't know what it is.

Off to look up railway tie....in an Australian dictionary.

EDIT: OK, so it's a railway sleeper in Aus too.....who knew? Not me, that's for sure.

trachemys

I hope he had help carrying it.

Happy Weekend.

saoutchik

It's a bloody big heavy piece of wood covered in creosote. I cannot work out how he got through ticket barriers, escalators etc . I am baffled as to what he might use one for, the base for some property boundary marker perhaps?

saoutchik

Well he had it upright in the carriage, yes maybe he had help though.

venuscat

creosote.....where is my Oxford?

And how hysterical.....bet I know what he was going to do with it though...they are popular as in gardens these days.....urban jungle kind of thing (like my garden ).

saoutchik

BTW if anyone is wondering why I didn't just ask it is illegal to talk to strangers on the trains in London (practically) Even eye contact is frowned upon.

venuscat

Hmm, I would not do well in London then....I don't remember it being like that 30 years ago...people were nice to me on the tube. But sure, I was young and a woman.

MidnightBlue

Hi, weekenders!

I am back from work.

My trip wasn't that eventful as Sao's)

And I had to consult a dictionary because, like Bim, I thought that it is some kind of sleeping bag designed for railway trips

You live, you learn))))

biminiblue

I have a friend who travels a lot and swears by the sleeping pods in airports.

Airport Sleeping Pods

WHY didn't I think to invent that? Oh, maybe because I don't travel much any more. I think you can rent them hourly.

saoutchik

I vaguely recall that sleeping pods first started in Japan for the benefit of drunken salarymen. MesaMan would probably know.

venuscat

Oh you were serious about the eye contact thing? OMG? omg....omg.

And more OMGs...sleeping pods at airports? Where?

biminiblue

haha at the term "Japanese drunk salarymen."

Like Londoners and Seattleites don't need them too.

So funny. When I was looking for an image that would post, I ran across images of those pods on city streets. Might help for drink-driving. Or it may just help the hookers. Regardless, it's #TinyHomesTemporary.

Venus those pods are in a few airports. You can Google it or clickety on that link in my post; which is from 2015, so there's probably more.

trachemys

sleeper=tie=crosstie down here. I've built a lot of raised beds with them. Damn near permanent installations.

venuscat

Dallas, Atlanta and Philadelphia in the US I think....so I have never been at an airport that has one... Very very cool.

saoutchik

Lol! Not entirely Venus, they are called guerrilla signs and crop up all over the network.