By appointment only
I had another trip to the hospital yesterday.
In spite of all the panic and alarm notices put out by the meeja screaming about ice and freezing and danger I drove in without a hitch.
Today there was another appointment but it was only here in the village. Interestingly it’s the first time I encountered slippery footpaths.
I have another appointment tomorrow and this one is a real bastard. It’s in the Dublin Dental Hospital which is located in probably the worst possible place in Dublin for access. There is no parking anywhere within reach. In fact there isn’t even a chance of stopping outside without causing major congestion in the area. Use public transport the Greens all scream. Think of the environment and save the planet. Yeah, right. To use public transport I would have to somehow avail of the extremely erratic and highly unreliable bus into Scobieville. I would then have to take the Dart into Dublin. At the far end I would have a long walk which is slightly above my limits these days. The return journey would of course be no better. Those Green cunts should just try taking public transport themselves sometime.
I have taken the easy way out.
I booked a cab to bring me in and out.
I hope it has a diesel engine.
“Those Green cunts should just try taking public transport themselves sometime.”
That is the whole the whole point of being one of the elected crowd, no?
So they can drive around in their chauffeur driven cars……
In the UK a great deal of the ‘public transport debate’ is framed around the experience of London travel. It may be an unpleasant place to live but compared to other cities and towns it has great rail, tube, light rail, tram, bus, and taxi provision. In the rest of the UK you don’t have to go far outside a major city for the public transport to be minimal or missing entirely.
London is indeed a grand place to get around, I am a great fan of the Tube.
Dublin gets all the attention and it’s still a nightmare to get around without a car. They are further disrupting things by “reinventing” all the routs with the proud promise that we can get from A to B with no more than three or four changes of route. This overlooks the fact that every change involves standing around in the wind and rain waiting for the next link to fail to turn up.
As for rural transport… Forget it!