Or maybe THIS Is The Tweet of the Day, Oy, There Was Just One More Thing, Guvnor edition.

Beautiful. This could be a scene in a TV episode. The timing is perfect. Via @bmsimp.

Witnessed the most amazing thing on the train to Edinburgh yesterday. A guy boarded in Wigan & sat opposite me. He went to sleep for an hour.

When he woke up he bought a sandwich, ate it & went back to sleep. (This isn’t a maths test, you don’t need to know the distance/speed).
— Ignacio Lopez (@comedylopez) January 11, 2020

Moe Lane

PS: I fully recognize that the story may very well not be accurate. I submit, however, that in a very real sense it simply must be TRUE. Did it strike a spark of satisfied justice in your heart? — Then it is real, even if it possibly never actually happened.

I will not budge on this.

7 thoughts on “Or maybe THIS Is The Tweet of the Day, Oy, There Was Just One More Thing, Guvnor edition.”

Luke says:

January 11, 2020 at 9:19 pm

Huh?
Am I missing something obvious?
1. Jeff Weimer says:
  
  January 11, 2020 at 9:44 pm
  
  You have to click on the thread. Dude gets Columbo’d rather neatly.
  1. Moe_Lane says:
    
    January 11, 2020 at 9:58 pm
    
    It was beautiful.
nicklevi86 says:

January 11, 2020 at 9:56 pm

I’m even more entertained by the comments afterward complaining about how “expensive” their subsidized train tickets are.
1. Aetius451AD says:
  
  January 12, 2020 at 11:33 am
  
  My first reaction is: no shit. Let’s work it out, though.
  The two stops mentioned: Wigan and Carlisle. Now he has actually gone beyond this, but it forms a nice basis for the charges.
  According to google maps, Wigan to Carlisle is 105 miles by road (miles, not KM, it is England, I am damn well going to use Imperial. I respect them, even if they do not.) By car, it is 1hr and 46 mins by road, 1 hour and 20 mins by train (Hmmm, the road looks like a fairly straight shot, but I guess with traffic circles/stops…)
  Gas/Petrol is 4.74 British pounds per gallon.
  Now, say they were driving my car in a slight mix of highway and city driving, so 23 miles per gallon. Such a trip would then cost me… 21.6 British pounds (at the listed fuel prices.)
  What the hell? That is highway robbery. (this is the point where I am wondering if I made a math error. Nope, I just checked a trip planner online and it costs $22-25 by car $40-180(!) by rail.
  Now they are actually going to at least the stop beyond that, but still.
  I could buy a very nice sandwich to enjoy in my car while listening to Sirius radio for the difference.
  1. Moe_Lane says:
    
    January 12, 2020 at 12:33 pm
    
    There’s a psychological element, too. 105 miles is pretty damn far, in Europe. Here it’s about as far from me as Richmond is. England’s about the size of Virginia, after all.
    1. nicklevi86 says:
      
      January 12, 2020 at 9:38 pm
      
      To be fair, if you’re doing anything in a city cars just won’t fit down those 1000 year old alleyways, so public transport will be a factor from the start.

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