#sketch comic
♪♫ “We are sorry to announce that the … SINGLE TRAIN …service has been cancelled due to …AWAITING A MEMBER OF TRAIN CREW… “ ♫♪
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Driver schedules are just lists of stations, instructions and times, so if you’ve been driving verrrrrysimilar shifts day in day out, a slight variation can easily trip you up. This is on top of the fact that there are multiple different stations and platforms that you might start from so a misreading might mean the difference of several MILES.
Mobile phones have to be off during a shift (and that’s assuming you have signal) so phoning a missing staff member rarely gets you any results so unless you’re psychic and know exactly which one of the many different stations/platforms they might be at… you’re up a creek without a paddle.
HOWEVER, there is a contingency plan of sorts!
There are ‘standby’ shifts, where a driver just waits in the depot so that a cancellation can be avoided by having that driver step in instead during cases of sickness, lateness, disruption, and yes, if a driver is just standing at the wrong station like a berk.
(it’s me, I was the berk)
Imagine causing your brother that kind of stress! Better take care to make sure it doesn’t happen again …
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Sense Memory
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The narrow window before management cuts back the spring blooms is one of my favourite times.
But if I had to fight pokémon hiding in the tall grass to get to my train, I’d be significantly less pleased.
On a different note, here’s a more light-hearted separate sketchy scenario that didn’t really fit with the previous lot;
Apparently Elesa loves bad puns and that’s hilarious to me.
Yes, for real, my day job is driving passenger trains.
Choo Choo, Stop, Go, Open Doors, “Please move down inside the train” The whole shebang.
It’s a pretty good gig but scores high on the ‘monotony’ chart; same routes, same trains, 9 hours on the bounce, but yeah I do enjoy it :)
If you’re ever interested in the rail, no matter what country you’re in, there will be rail forums run by enthusiasts who’ll have all the info you could possibly want.
Thank you for choosing to travel with us today …
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I’m going to be completely honest;
I don’t really go here. I haven’t played Black & White or its sequel so I was ignorant of these two until Pokémon Legends Arceus came out and propelled them right to the forefront of my dash, and I ain’t gonna lie, I fell a little in love with these two.
Now. I might not have played their games.
But I do drive a train and I couldn’t help myself.
I started sketching Ingo and Emmet in situations I’ve seen or been in as warmups and it just…mutated into this mini comic, which I thought I might share.
Maybe I’ll pick up my old saves
A little sketch comic about how bisexuality is totally cool and good and not bad.
The format is cliché! I know. But it makes it easy to talk about things I want to talk about. Thanks for reading!
(I shouldn’t have to say this, but since a lot of people wanted to educate me on twitter: The words listed in panel seven [yes even in the parentheticals!] are just examples of how often acceptable language around gender and sexuality changes. They are not lists of synonymous words, and many of them are now considered unacceptable. That’s why they’re on the list. That’s what the list IS. I know.)
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Fortunately I don’t remember most of my dreams.
No one cares about them but I do
Detroit man is forced to experience feelings other than anger. More at 11
