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- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeFeb 18th 2008 edited
Lunchtime poll:
You have just arrived at Finsbury Park Station and you are late for a hot date at Karmenz, so late in fact that you lazily decide to get the bus to the stop outside Woody's. You come out of the station and to your suprise all three bus types are coming round the corner and pulling up at the stand with their doors open to passengers. Each bus has the same length of queue with an equal number of faffers to non faffers, buggies etc, and you are positioned equidistant from each bus (you have just bought two bunches of daffs for your date from the vegetable lady).
Which bus do you opt for and why?
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- CommentAuthorFour Eyes
- CommentTimeFeb 18th 2008
W7 for a better class of bus passenger and possibly slightly faster exit from the station from its stand position. -
- CommentAuthorColette
- CommentTimeFeb 18th 2008
In order: 210; W7; W3.
The 210 has the fastest turnaround IF (and only IF) it is already loading passengers (usually because fewer people want it and therefore it is less likely to be delayed by people running up to it just as it's about to leave). However, the W7 is the most likely to arrive at the stand and turn around again without taking a 15mn break. Maybe because it has such a short route. -
- CommentAuthordominic
- CommentTimeFeb 18th 2008
210. Assuming it's evening - hot date and all - then all buses will eventually fill up. The 210 will fill up first being smaller.... OH SHIT, just remembered some are now double-decker. So if it was a single-decker, then the 210. If not the W7 for Four Eyes reasons. -
- CommentAuthorGlyn
- CommentTimeFeb 18th 2008
Just on a bit of a tangent - what exactly is the deal with turnaround times at FP?
How long exactly are the drivers meant to wait and does anyone ever completely lose the plot and start banging on their doors? I feel slightly useless stood there curling my lip and giving them the skunk-eye.
I have also noticed a new trick of waiting around the corner for a bit and then pulling in to the station and waiting some more - while 50 people are stood there - gah!
Oh - 210 by the way. -
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeFeb 18th 2008
I would almost definitely walk, but note on my watch the time the fastest bus went past, thus measuring the marginal cost of the time saved against exercise time gained. If I got to the Nando's bus stop before any of the buses (a definite possibility), I would definitely consider this a win for me, because I would make back the time between Christopher Charles and Porchetta as the bus made a pickup outside Chez Liline.
I don't believe, in this example, we are all going on a 'hot date'. We are all going to meet up at our club meeting of the Stroud Green High Functioning Autistics Club. -
- CommentAuthorflembo
- CommentTimeFeb 18th 2008
Definetly walk. By the time everyone gets on, the bus gets stuck in traffic, you're already almost there....Or take the pleasant stroll through Charteris Road for the scenic route... -
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeFeb 18th 2008
Some of us don't function highly enough to notice there isn't a walking option!
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- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeFeb 18th 2008
@Glyn
This is the reason for the poll - I believe that the W7 is the nastiest bus on the planet because it waits round the corner, then waits on the stand, then lets the passengers on and waits a bit more and you've got on because you're in a mad rush and you really want the W3 and you're standing there waiting and meanwhile a W3 pops up and whooshes off before you can clamber past all the faffers and buggies to get off.
At the walkers, oh come on, the road isn't that congested, and this is a really hot date.
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- CommentAuthormatt
- CommentTimeFeb 19th 2008 edited
I'd also walk, sorry!
But otherwise W3, because it's my normal bus and old habits die hard. I've recently started experimenting with the 210 to drop me on Hornsey Road at the end of Fairbridge Road. But there are a higher than normal number of drunks/smelly people on that bus I've found.
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- CommentAuthorkatiejane
- CommentTimeFeb 20th 2008 edited
I think I'd find out which bus tosscat was waiting for then ram my buggy into his ankles -
- CommentAuthornaomi
- CommentTimeFeb 20th 2008
the w3 for the view of london from ally pally. but i'd stay on, turn around and come home...not getting off in wood green unless some topshop vouchers are burning a hole in my pocket.
last choice: 210. it makes me uneasy. -
- CommentAuthorColette
- CommentTimeFeb 20th 2008
There's a Topshop in wood green? -
- CommentAuthorkatiejane
- CommentTimeFeb 21st 2008
Hell yeah, and a M&S Cafe Revive! -
- CommentAuthornaomi
- CommentTimeFeb 21st 2008
see...the boys can have a political debate about the post office on the other page and the ladeez can talk about shopping...perfect! -
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeFeb 21st 2008
I'm not going to comment, I might sound like Christian O'Connell.
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- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeFeb 21st 2008
And katiejane, how do you know I'm a he?
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