Why oh why when FGW insist on running overcrowded trains do platform attendants/supervisors/guards or whatever else those fluorescent coated numpties are called do they insist on blowing their whistles shrilly from the moment the trains pull into the stations, and at times before doors upon until the point when all those who were playing sardines make their escape and all who wish to travel onward, again often in overcrowded conditions manage to squeeze on board? What exactly does it achieve?
Maybe it is part of some strange fitness routine to increase lung capacity? Maybe the fluorescent jacketed numpties are practicing for the role of football or rugby referees? All I know is that the last thing you want as you fight your way off or onto the train is to have someone blowing a whistle by your ear. And it's not as if the habit is confined to London bound journeys. The same thing happens as you stand in a crowd trying to board the train. I swear today's whistle happy soul has damaged my ear drums.
And to what end? No one can physically get off, or on any quicker...well safely, I could use my Rugby Union skills to my advantage, but do believe people would get hurt in the process...and I am to much. Of a gentleman for that.
So what is the answer...well for a start let me tell you where to stick that fecking whistle!
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