What would be the silliest thing you did?

[Viraja]

I did this silly thing recently -

I am Indian and female, I have resigned from a former IT job 6 months ago and currently on the lookout for job.

In the meantime I happened to view my former boss's Facebook profile. He is White American.

I did not want to ask him for a job however he is such a good person I impulsively sent him an FR. He accepted it. I don't intend to ask for his job back as that job was highly stressful. I told him that while resigning.

But then every time I had to post I became very cautious and self-conscious...

Today I wrote him a note on how all that say in social media would affect him making him look as if he supported those views, took his permission and unfriended him. I feel so silly!

What is your silliest action?

 

[Rival]

Today I booked a train to Portsmouth from Yorkshire. 3 changes and I have no idea how to read a train timetable.

 

[Viraja]

@Jainarayan @Vinayaka @Aupmanyav

 

[Polymath257]

I joined RF.

 

[exchemist]

I did this silly thing recently -

I am Indian and female, I have resigned from a former IT job 6 months ago and currently on the lookout for job.

In the meantime I happened to view my former boss's Facebook profile. He is White American.

I did not want to ask him for a job however he is such a good person I impulsively sent him an FR. He accepted it. I don't intend to ask for his job back as that job was highly stressful. I told him that while resigning.

But then every time I had to post I became very cautious and self-conscious...

Today I wrote him a note on how all that say in social media would affect him making him look as if he supported those views, took his permission and unfriended him. I feel so silly!

What is your silliest action?

I think you dug yourself out of the hole rather elegantly, if I may say so.

As for me, one summer's evening long ago, when I was walking back along the Isis (the local name for the Thames) at Oxford, after a few pints in the pub (actually this one: The Trout Inn Pub & Restaurant in Wolvercote, Oxfordshire), the friend I was with bet me that I wouldn't strip off and swim across the river to the houseboat moored on the opposite bank, and back. It was dark and nobody was around so I took him up and did it. However, just as I reached the houseboat, a policeman turned up. So my friend decided to engage this bobby in conversation, for about ten minutes. All the time, I had to keep as still as possible, getting colder and colder in the water, waiting for him to move on, so I could swim back, climb out and retrieve my clothes.

 

[Aupmanyav]

I did many silly things in my life. Perhaps the silliest thing I did was not taking one biology examination seriously which could have made me a successful doctor. I had already cleared by 12th grade exam with reasonably good grades (with mathematics, which was not my cup of choice) and had a whole year to complete just one paper. Ishwareccha/Chance.

 

[Vinayaka]

Between lives, I chose to follow some guy back to the west. Silly mistake, cost me 18 years in this body, before I figured it out. Now it's all good, as India has moved here.

 

[dybmh]

I made a grass skirt for a rubber chicken 'cause my friends felt sorry for it.

I'll find the picture...

 

[Altfish]

Today I booked a train to Portsmouth from Yorkshire. 3 changes and I have no idea how to read a train timetable.

Get on the first train and ask the guard - or...

I'm the opposite with trains in the UK, I know them well.
If you want...post the trains you are catching and I will tell you which platforms they go from. I can only do that about a week in advance. If you want to do it in private start a conversation.

Cheers

 

[Rival]

Get on the first train and ask the guard - or...

I'm the opposite with trains in the UK, I know them well.
If you want...post the trains you are catching and I will tell you which platforms they go from. I can only do that about a week in advance. If you want to do it in private start a conversation.

Cheers

I'm catching it tomorrow.

 

[Altfish]

I'm catching it tomorrow.

Where from? Approx what time?

 

[Rival]

Where from? Approx what time?

12 from Goole, first to Doncaster.

 

[Altfish]

12 from Goole, first to Doncaster.

Let me have a look, see what I can find out

Goole is easy, only two platforms.

Let me see what comes up, make a coffee

 

[Rival]

Let me have a look, see what I can find out

Goole is easy, only two platforms.

Let me see what comes up, make a coffee

My main issue is I have never even been to Doncaster station and I have no idea what train I'm looking to be on or anything. I just have the time I need to be on it. I wish they named trains.

 

[dybmh]

I made a grass skirt for a rubber chicken 'cause my friends felt sorry for it.

I'll find the picture...

 

[Altfish]

12 from Goole, first to Doncaster.

OK, somewhat guessing the route from Doncaster...

Goole departs 11:54 from Platform 2 (It is a Sheffield train)
Arrives Doncaster at 12:18 in Platform 3B

Or the later train …

Goole departs at 12:28 again from Platform 2 (It is a Sheffield train)
Arrives Doncaster at 12:58 again at Platform 3B


Going off what Trainline and the like suggest your route then will be … if this is incorrect let me know and I’ll rework

To get from Platform 3B to Platform 1 at Doncaster is easy, it is the other face of the platform albeit a wide one with waiting rooms and the likes in between.

Departs Doncaster at 12:47 from Platform 1 (a Kings Cross train)
Arrive at Stevenage at 14:03 in Platform 2

Depart Stevenage at 14:17 (A Horsham Train) from Platform 1
Again at Stevenage Platforms 1 & 2 are the opposite faces of the same platform.

Arrive East Croydon 15:14 at Platform 3
Depart East Croydon at 15:23 (A Portsmouth Harbour/Bognor Regis train) from Platform 3
Departs from the same platform you arrived on.
This train splits at Horsham, so make sure you are in the correct part of the train.

Arrive Portsmouth & Southsea at 17:00 into Platform 2

OR, if you were on the later train from Goole

Departs Doncaster at 13:19 from Platform 1 (a Kings Cross train)
Arrive at Kings Cross at 15:01 in Platform 5

Tube train to Waterloo

Depart Waterloo at 16:00 (A Portsmouth Harbour train) from Platform 11
Arrive Portsmouth & Southsea at 17:30 in Platform 2


Warning: The Platform numbers are fairly accurate but can be changed at the last moment to accommodate late running trains, etc. – so do check.


Hope this helps - safe journey

 

[Jainarayan]

I can be silly and goofy... cracking jokes, making people laugh... much of the time. But I also embarrass myself and do stupid and regrettable things all the time, so it's hard to pick just one, or even a few instances.

 

[Rival]

This train splits at Horsham, so make sure you are in the correct part of the train.

Is there a way to make sure of this?

 

[Skwim]

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I once wore a thong for half a day just to see what the big deal was. . . . . . there isn't any. In fact, it was darn uncomfortable. BUT, don't let that stop you ladies out there from wearing 'em.

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[Altfish]

Is there a way to make sure of this?

I use a website called Realtime Trains., the link below is open at the Doncaster page around lunchtime.

Realtime Trains | Departures from Doncaster

You can check it tomorrow morning BUT if the previous train due to use your platform is delayed there can be (at the signaller's discretion) last minute changes. They are 95+% reliable but....