Doctor Vee’s been having train troubles: …a girl did try to barge her way into a train before everybody (including me) had got out. She was obviously an inexperienced train boarder, so I kind of deliberately stood in her way to hint that what she was doing was wrong. Is that rude? Trains are hotbeds of strange human behaviour, be it the man having a very loud argument with his wife on the phone, the utter arseholes who take up two seats when they’re sleeping, or the strange guy giving everybody a creepy stare (that one’s me).Once I observed a girl who was just looking at her phone. Nothing unusual there, but all of a sudden she just burst into tears. Had she just been dumped by text? Rudeness all round! And then there are the most annoying people of all — the people who walk up to the ticket barriers and then realise that they actually need a ticket to negotiate the barriers. Doh! Then, instead of politely walking away from the barrier, they just stop dead and proceed to fish around in their bag … Poor lad. Maybe he should take the copter.
A selection of my ancestors and not so ancient relatives are from Dr Vees part of the world. I can assure you that there is nothing civilised about travelling on the East Coast line between Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh Waverley, other than the very scenic crossing of the Firth of Forth and the views of the railway bridge, friend to the fraternal order of Scottish Bridge Painters for many a year. This observation is accentuated by the fact that DrVee probably has to travel early in the morning and late at night. Dangerous stuff. Then you have the weather. No wonder people are rude.
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