Tampere
people are used to regular business travel between Tampere and Helsinki. The
most convenient way to travel is by train. It takes only one hour twenty five
minutes and you can work, read newspapers or relax. Some people travel daily,
the others weekly or monthly. When you are a real professional traveler
on that route, you have serial tickets and you do not need to reserve seats in
advance, because you know which places cannot be reserved for seating. I like it, because, as usual, I can
optimise my time. Just jump into the train and join the other passengers which
you pretty much learn to know quickly. In the first class there are couple of
your current or earlier colleagues, some members of parliament, and maybe
couple of person you do not know.
Some time
ago I was driving to railway station, while I heard from radio news that the
railway between Helsinki and Tampere is partially broken due to an accident.
Some of the trains were cancelled, but not the one I was heading at. I caught
the train, but all the seats were double booked due to earlier train that was
cancelled. As usual, I had no seat reservation, so I was in the worst position
compared to all the other participants. I needed to stand at the corridor
almost the whole trip. The problem was that I was heading to a meeting and had
still some contribution to write during the trip. I found it impossible to work
with laptop while standing at the corridor.
The only way to make my deliverable was to write the document with my
mobile phone. It was painful, but I managed to do it. Finally at Pasila I got a
seat for the last five minutes.
That was a
trip with a first class standing seat.
Lessons learnt:
Remember to
consider risks.
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