Middle Class Teenagers Are Very Confident.

Not at all bright. But very confident.

I think the whole World knows that my mothers live in Salisbury. Where, apparently, commercial waste bins go uncollected for several months at a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qeu3JskpEE (My Old Man's A Wasteman, Lonnie Donegan, Skiffle, Official Audio).

The train that I get from Salisbury to London Waterloo is normally nine coaches long. Three that originate in Salisbury and six that arrive from Exeter St Davids.

Yesterday the six coaches from Exeter didn't arrive.

I don't think even I can repeat what the train staff said when they heard the news. Discovering that we were all in for a very hot, sweaty and cramped journey.

This was made much worse by a group that teenagers with a ridiculous amount of luggage. So much that if they were flying they'd be charged extra.

They then stacked  all these cases, floor-to-ceiling by one of the train's doors. Completely oblivious to the fact that door needs to and will open.

Even when the train guard explained this to them. They still couldn't work it out.

I was on the verge of having to get out of my seat to.work as a volunteer train conductor.

Which  would have been ironic. What with the Liberals economic crisis making me having to start seriously reconsider my own union membership.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVMZUwFFJCc (Which Side Are You On Dropkick Murphys, Official Audio).

Such was the scale of the stupidity. It delayed the train by about seven minutes along its entire route.

Which was politely explained as;

 "A Technical Fault on the Train."

Even foreign tourists, travelling on a British train for the very first time, were shaking their heads at them.