A students life is enriched with many adventures and mishaps, Water fights in the early hours, or even getting blind stinking drunk, puking in somebody else’s house then being put in a wheelbarrow and taken downtown. However there is one thing we all have to deal with that really does suck, in fact it’s possibly a students worse nightmare… Public Transport!

As students it is our obligation to return home in one weekend, visit friends and family, realise home isn’t quite the same, and then return back to University because, you really do need to get that final assignment done. This is quite a challenge, especially if you do it most weekends, but the one thing that would make life so much easier over those 3 little days is if your train wasn’t run by a monkey on acid. Let me point out how bloody annoying, the British train system is when you are a student.

Scenario One; Sunday morning, you wake up, laze about, say goodbye to your mates down the pub, get home for a lovely roast and then pack your bags because, why would you do it the night before when you can rush in the morning? Your mum drops you at the station; you get their ready for the train but wait… its delayed. Your perfect timing of getting back for early evening, just in time for the pub quiz, is ruined! Some idiot has decided to delay your train by 43.3333331 minutes… making your entire schedule go tits up.

Scenario Two; You catch the train, its on time, everything feels good. You have a comfortable seat and an extra one for your bag. The granny smelling of cat and wee is five seats down from you, and the weird guy with nose hair always on the phone has been shot dead… fantastic. But wait… the idiot is back again and he wants to ruin your life. This time, he’s decided to close the track ahead… and replace it with a bus system… a crappy bus system. A system that either involves a knob with a clipboard telling you “THIS BUS!” when really it isn’t, or an extra long journey because the driver wants to take the scenic route and pick up every other person on the coast… oh and this time, granny and the nose hair bandit are sat next to you.

So this my fellow students is what really grinds my gear about our relationship with the transport system… The stupid idiot train company and its stupid ways of annoying us.