I will cut to the chase, choose to spend NYE with my oldest mates in a suburb. I phoned the tram company and they said as longs as we are tram stop for 1:30 we will get back. Official guidelines was 1:00am.
We got to tram stop at 1:10 and waited for an tram that appeared on the PID, however it never showed up, ten minutes later it said "End of service, happy new year". My female friend was going to city centre, I and all other people were going to a suburb. I knew the buses were every 10 minutes into the city centre and made sure she had enough money to get home. I gave her £5 to cover her bus fair (which was more than enough).
I shared a taxi back with people trying to get to my area, knowing my female friend (who invited her self despite me trying to warn her about unreliable public transport) had a bus due every ten minutes. I got to my area and phoned her, she said bus still had not turned up, Half an hour later still no bus. I knew she only had £5 on her and a taxi back to hers was £20. She is very skint atm due to being in between jobs and being messed about on a new start date for a new job.
I asked my mates who live in the area I have been to (on their convenience) to go and check on her and give her £20 for a taxi which I will give them tomorrow, they did but were clearly very put out on this and I had to promise to buy them a very pints etc. It would have cost me about £40 return at NYE rates to get to her.
So what should I have done? Stayed with her to the bus came? Payed for her taxi? Or done nothing and just assume the bus would turn uo? In the end she got the bus home safely but it was over 55 minutes late.
I am really angry for several reasons, 1) for my female friend coming out despite me advising against it due her being skint, 2) the tram and then bus not turning up, 3) my mates attitude of being so put out when I asked them to go and check on her. They lived less than 5 minutes walk from her bus stop (and they were with us all night) where I was a £20 there and £20 back taxi ride away)
Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Wed 1 Jan 14 at 02:42
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