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So the departmental exam boards are over at and I have a plan - walk to the sorting office to retrieve my parcel which came whilst I was in Liverpool, go to the Doves for two drinks and then return home to work for a couple of hours before an early night.
I decide, however, that it would be efficient to take a taxi from the sorting office to the pub - save at least half an hour walking, and I will be less stressed. It's coming up to four o'clock though, and it is ten minutes before they can send me a taxi. The park and ride bus goes by - it's two quid to the city centre, but then I'd have to walk out of town again, as opposed to say a fiver for door to door service. Another park and ride bus goes by.
4.10 comes and goes, as do four more buses.
At 4.40 I phone again - they've claim to have sent a taxi and no one was there. They send another, after another two buses. Now we're in rush hour traffic, and it's bumper to bumper. Eventually there’s a space to nip down D Street, but Lower C Street is snarled and aggressive driving is necessary to get out onto it.
Then there’s the junction with Old D Road to negotiate – apparently this is cricket traffic. The lights go through two cycles until we're at the front of the queue, and then traffic is blocking the junction. Fortunately there is a gap to squeeze through.
Total cost of taxi is £8 and an hour of waiting and travelling. Triffic.
I decide, however, that it would be efficient to take a taxi from the sorting office to the pub - save at least half an hour walking, and I will be less stressed. It's coming up to four o'clock though, and it is ten minutes before they can send me a taxi. The park and ride bus goes by - it's two quid to the city centre, but then I'd have to walk out of town again, as opposed to say a fiver for door to door service. Another park and ride bus goes by.
4.10 comes and goes, as do four more buses.
At 4.40 I phone again - they've claim to have sent a taxi and no one was there. They send another, after another two buses. Now we're in rush hour traffic, and it's bumper to bumper. Eventually there’s a space to nip down D Street, but Lower C Street is snarled and aggressive driving is necessary to get out onto it.
Then there’s the junction with Old D Road to negotiate – apparently this is cricket traffic. The lights go through two cycles until we're at the front of the queue, and then traffic is blocking the junction. Fortunately there is a gap to squeeze through.
Total cost of taxi is £8 and an hour of waiting and travelling. Triffic.
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