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You walk up to an ATM and start hitting the screen TVM style expecting it to respond!

Did that last night at paddington

 ::)

A few from me:

• You walk round the bus stop wondering where the TVM is located before boarding a bus
• When someone says the train/bus/whatever departs at 9 o'clock, you correct them with "the oh-nine-hundred hour service", which must be spoken like Phil Sayer
• You know the Wessex Trains safety briefing by memory: "Welcome aboard, please listen to the following announcement for your safety.  Please familiarise yourself with the safety information displayed on posters located in the passenger saloons.  Emergency door opening procedures are indicated close to the doors.  Please ensure any luggage in the overhead racks in safely stowed.  And when you leave the train, please mind the gap between the train and the platform edge, and take care as you alight.  Thank you".
• And you love it when you're on the one 158 unit that pauses for at least 5 second in-between each sentence of the safety briefing
• You know exactly which ticket you want to buy: "a super off peak day return to London Terminals, routed Warminster/Salisbury"

Or when the on-board crew greet you as if they miss you when you're not there, or even worse know your name!

Had this on Saturday.  Was at the queue for the buffet and the person in front asked the steward what time the service called at Truro.  Instinctively I blurted out the time.....

Or even worse.  When you relocate from A to B and you join the train at B and the crew peer at you through the window and on embarking you get asked why on earth you are at B!

..... you know which platform at Paddington your train will depart from before everyone else.

... I didn;t know you were privy to State Secrets BNM

Tis not difficult to work out!  Unless there is a last minute change

... you find yourself reading signatures as station names. BNM - Burnham
... you register a new phone number and think it's easy to remember because it finishes with 153
... you can tell where you are without looking out of the train window
... you can recite the stations from Swindon to Weymouth without pausing for breath, and explain to the kiddies who are asking "how many MORE times will we stop" that you don't know ... because of Thornford, Yetminster and Chetnole
... you don't know where you'll go next Sunday - http://wellho.info/3413

... you find yourself in a relationship with a member of the train crew?  :P

I did something similar with a customer not long ago.
Me: And what's your car's registration number?
Customer: Something 153 something
Me: Is that just a single carriage or is it working in multiple?
Customer: (Extremely confused) Sorry?
Me: (Nervous laugh) Moving on...

when you know the difference between a 159/0 and 159/1 just by sitting in it  :-\ :-[

Ohh there's a couple for me:

I have been delayed (when driving my car) because of engineering works.

Was in a car with some other rail people - driver was going slightly over the limit and was told by a mate to slow down a bit or he might get a penalty fare.

wrong type of snow has caught me out driving on exmoor i can tell you !!

Oh I've also referred to failed traffic light as "signalling problems"

I have a friend who refers to single-lane traffic through roadworks as "single-line working"...

I've just realised that my mobile number is rather appropriate to the stock normally used on my local line, ending as it does in 143!

How about mowing the lawn in green zone conditions...   ::)

Paul

Far more exciting to do it in a red zone. As long as you have appropriate lookouts and warning systems in place, of course.

When you are traveling on a Thames Turbo, and you can tell It's wider inside than a 153, 158, or HST.   ;D

NO: It's NOT a TARDIS, then it would have to be Wider on the Inside than the outside, but then IF the Boffins could build a Tardis Train, sure could solve overcrowding.  :D

they could channel any residual artron energy into the breaking system similar to the method used on the class 390 ........ you know you watch too much doctor who when....................

When you know the name of the man/Digital Doris doing the announcements.

When you know what the bell codes ringing at the station mean (i.e. what signal box they're from) and can thus amaze other passengers by getting up just as the right train pulls in.

When you see platform staff get promoted to a guard and then an RPI (in the meantime, in your long years of commuting, you're the same... :'( )

When yopu are Platform 4 at Slough and the signal on the Down Relief starts flashing yellow and the Down Main signal is Red you know the next train is not going to stop at Burnham or Taplow.

....you're on Platform 4 at Reading and you know that your train is the fourth or fifth one in the queue. CIS only does 1st, 2nd, 3rd.

...and when standing on platform 4 at Reading you know the exact point when Phil Sayer will start to say "The train now approaching Platform 4 is the....."

So, it's not just me then? I find myself mouthing along to that safety briefing all the time on trains to/from the Severn Beach Line.... and I've often said, "and thank you" out loud in response!

Wot, you mean like this bloke...? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=LZw3nnbQf-4#t=23s  ;D

i really thought he was just mouthing the words until the mistake

This guy really is good (the one in the blue jumper in the Lizardskin video)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuBdlJlv-tk

 :o

Come on then, own up.  After reading the last few posts, who has just recorded themselves unsuccessfully trying to imitate Phil Sayer?

 :-X

You know you listen to Phil Sayer too much when...

When the First Class Host doesn't need to ask you how you take your coffee.

When you arrive at Frome Station and are sold a ticket to your destination without having to say a word.

When you ask to purchase a First Class Upgrade and the Train Manager says "Don't worry about it"

When a certain XC Train Manager doesn't even bother to check your ticket as he knows you have one to Bristol Temple Meads"

When a W-o-E guard see's you on the platform and comes out the rear cab just to chat to you

When you board a SWT Class 455 with a full bladder and then promptly realise that is a very bad idea

When a certain SWT RPI laughs and smiles at you when travelling to London Waterloo because you bailed out of a 159 at Basingstoke just to continue your journey on a 444 for no other reason than you can...

so im not the only one thats done it  ;D

You two need to get out more ...  ;) :D ;D

Chris did you not see? They do get out - at Basingstoke :P

yeh i dont really want to change at clapham aswell.... im not that adventurous !

I do it every Monday to Friday day - not so bad

Kew bridge/brentford to clapham to grotwick

Reverse in evenings

Monday is nailsea to reading to grotwick

Friday ironically is cheaper to do grotwick to London bridge or st pancreas depending which tube lines I rancy to pad to nailsea

... you cut a conversation short on the phone because you know you are coming up to a tunnel.