I live about 5 miles from Bristol City Centre - im 5 mins from a train station but I take the bike. Takes me 20 mins on the way in and 25 mins on the way home (all uphill on the way home!) The train takes about 40 mins by the time I get to the station, wait on train, walk the other side. On the bike i get 45 mins exercise a day, saves going to the gym, no waiting on trains or dealing with ****s on said trains, and am home quicker. Used to work in cardiff. either driving or getting train over every day was a ****. sometimes sitting having a coffee reading the paper for an hour on the way in on a train wasnt too bad - but when you leave work its nice to just get home rather than rely on a train to turn up on time and rely on some smelly **** chosing not to sit next to you.
I can do some work from home but I do travel 7.5 miles most days to work... Driving standards are terrible and getting worse - the lack of traffic police is criminal in itself. <devon&cornwallpolicefundshortage>
PS. I should qualify this with the fact that I am normally a very laid back and easy going kind of chap.
Except when they seem to standing around doing **** all and am waiting on them authorising my booze at self checkout.
I had a confrontation with an AA van driver a few months back The **** tried to push into my lane on a large roundabout... he clipped my wing mirror with the side of his van - I got in front of him and jammed-on the brakes. After a brief 'conversation', he conceded that he had made a mistake. ...I'd just quit smoking that week and was proper raging! He really would have got a pasting!
I spend 3 days a week in Belfast and 4 on the Isle of Man. I leave the house in Belfast at 7.15am and I'm in the office for 9am - better than some London commutes.
I thought you loathed violence Joker you inconsistent Bumpety Bump ****........ [video=youtube;NVsntw7QgtE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVsntw7QgtE[/video]
