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Sydney CityRail Misery Seat - Aussie City Life

August 23rd 2006 02:48
In Aussie City Life, we get the sad story of Cityrail's one-person seats.

TomC did a great job of snapping pictures of the little isolated 'Rocketman' seats at the end of the train carriage.

" It's that cramped, solitary seat next to the stairs. Perhaps it was designed with social-phobes in mind because in this chair you can pretty much only sit in one position, not hold anything and not move. All you can do is stare.

Also, since The Misery Seat is next to the stairs, your lonely shame and misery are on full display to the commuters about to descend the stairs to alight from the train.


As soon as you sit down, the padding lets out a sigh but it's soon muffled as you become one with the despondency.

It's an ideal spot to inject, quietly weep or to messily eat your problems away."


Sigh - it's so true. I DO eat my troubles away. And I AM messy.

Help me, TomC! Give me a sign!

What? You want me to set fire to - oh, okay, I'll do it at night. Hee hee! I see leprechauns!

If you're not from Sydney, you can't appreciate what's going on here, but if you are unfortunate enough to use CityRail during the week, you'll sympathize.

As TomC pointed out, if you're lucky, you'll get on a new train, with nice seats... if you get an old train, you'll feel like you're barreling down a brimstone track to the fiery bowels of Hell.

Yes! CityRail has raised the ticket prices! Great! Oh, the services are exactly the same, with the delays and the breakdowns and the dirty trains? Oh, the extra money goes to paying CityRail executives enough so they can drive their fancy cars to work?


Oh, ok.

OK!
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