A night out and a day travelling

[ailbhe]

Last night everyone at work - at least, all nine of us in my company in my regional office, not the whole company and not every company that works in that regional office and not - oh, never mind -

Anyway, we all went bowling. It was pretty good; some of the food was edible and although I hurt my hand a bit it wasn't truly terribly bad really; my thumbnail will take a while to recover. Naturally there were cameras; for some reason people are very keen to document events. I played appallingly badly as long as I was able to play at all and eventually handed over the ball to someone else and said "I can no more".

Today Rob and I woke moderately late and Janice came around and we all finished packing and had tea and failed utterly to tidy the house and then we walked to the train station via Janice's house (so that I could borrow her kettle and she could feed her cat) and at the train station we bought food and chocolate and cigarettes and got cash money and things and stuff. Then we went to the platform to wait for the train and the train didn't come and didn't come and didn't come and then we had to change to a less convenient platform and the train didn't come and then it came and our reserved seats were a great disappointment to us.

Rob and I were together, and Janice was off to the side and a little ahead. We shuffled around a bit but it didn't quite work. However... eventually a party got off the train and the table they were sitting at became free, so we swooped on it like vultures and got out the cribbage set. Just as Janice was teaching us cribbage again, some people got on and said they had reserved those three seats and could we please move. So we did. And the three girls just sat down and went to sleep. At a table. We were a bit annoyed; they didn't need the table to sleep at, did they? Luckily, we had travel Scrabble and didn't need cribbage.

And in the fullness of time, the train pulled into Glasgow Central and we piled out and into a taxi and out and into a hostel where they looked at Rob and Janice, both with backpacks and looking hostellish, and assumed they were the couple. We corrected them and went out to find some food as it was past our dinner time.