Two instances of 'not thinking'

By Mark on Friday 6 July 2007 at 10:04

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This morning I've experienced two excellent examples of decisions where someone has obviously either:

a) not thought about what they're going to do before they do it, or
b) thought about it quite a lot, but are just that stupid

The first was this morning when someone at First Great Western decided that the best time to trailer a train carriage out of the depot on Embankment Road (completely blocking all four lanes in and out of Plymouth from Marsh Mills) would be 8:30am on a weekday.

You know, that notoriously quiet time of day when the roads are almost deserted, and almost no-one is trying to get to work on time.

The second (and this is the funnier one, because it didn't involve me being stuck in a massive queue of traffic) occurred just now, when we heard a frantic banging on our inside gate, which is unusual because most people ring the doorbell on our front door first.

In came a fairly young guy in a high-vis jacket, who asked if he could borrow a ladder because (and see if this doesn't restore your faith in couriers) he'd tried to throw a package over our garden into the pub next door's garden (a good 30 feet), and it was now stuck on our roof.

2 comments:

On Friday 6 July 2007 at 13:50, Traffic Avenger said:

Dear Mr Bell,

You will be happy to know that evidence of this disgraceful incident (captured on the Control Room's CCTV cameras) has been passed to the Traffic Manager of Plymouth City Council and there will be some serious butt kicking in the near future.

We would like you to know that Plymouth City Council frowns on this sort of thing and will be asking questions of the staff responsible for avoiding such a farce.

Yours

Miss Racheal Brown
Network Management Officer

On Friday 6 July 2007 at 13:57, Mark B said:

Well - that's the fastest response I've ever had from anyone at Plymouth council about anything.

And ironically it was because you were looking at this site instead of working Smile

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