First Great Western aren't as vape friendly as I thought.

[BrenD]

The station manager for the Plymouth area wasn't as polite as he could have been when he told me that I'd have to go outside to use "that thing" as I was happily vaping away at Plymouth station just now, something I have done for months without being challenged.

He is lucky I was feeling far too tired/stressed to challenge him about the blind eye he was turning to some of the football fans who were smoking on the platform (wtf?  Vaping is unacceptable despite it being legal where we were, but the illegal act of smoking was fine?) and the two guys who were using eGos.  As for the couple of vaping taxi drivers who stand inside and vape, often talking to station staff...  

If I'm asked nicely/told to stop vaping, I stop vaping, simple as.  But this is the first time I really regret not saying something.  Grr.

But FGW are a bunch of incompetent [insert swearword of choice here]s anyway.  They ran a four carriage train from Plymouth to Newton Abbot that was all but empty a matter of minutes before sending a dangerously overcrowded two carriage train down into Cornwall.  They know their services are overcrowded on the nights that Argyle play and they would have been informed that tonight was going to be Argyle's biggest crowd of the season by a long, long way.  Did they think to put on extra services/carriages when they have more than enough rolling stock this side of Dawlish to do so?  Did they heck.

/rant.

[babs]

A bully by the sounds of things I would have just gone to the ladies lol.

[markm]

Just agree, then go into stealth mode - hold it In and count to ten.
It's only really possible to restrict/ban the visible effects, what happens
In your own airway is private........

[BrenD]

Mar 26, 2014 9:53:05 GMT babs said:

A bully by the sounds of things I would have just gone to the ladies lol.

Bully is a little bit harsh, but I guess it was easier to target someone stood on their own rather than a group of reasonably merry football fans!


What a difference 24 hours makes, none of the station staff gave a toss about me vaping tonight.

[chykensa]

Must admit I'm usually quite circumspect when I vape in public anyway, but this does seem a bit harsh. Perhaps he was just having a bad night, not that that's any excuse.
FGW are generally a bunch of twits with an 'a' in my experience, and there are more than enough little Hitlers too. Glad the status quo has been restored BrenD

[BrenD]

Mar 26, 2014 23:50:52 GMT chykensa said:

Must admit I'm usually quite circumspect when I vape in public anyway, but this does seem a bit harsh. Perhaps he was just having a bad night, not that that's any excuse.
FGW are generally a bunch of twits with an 'a' in my experience, and there are more than enough little Hitlers too. Glad the status quo has been restored BrenD

I couldn't agree more.  Alas they are my only option for my daily commute, I could get into work by bus, but not home.  I'd be a very happy bunny if I didn't have to hand £2.70 over to them each day.