The Anonymous Widower

Travelling to the Ricoh at Coventry

Radio 5 this morning, is headlining a story that there is a bug in the iPhone. What do they think?  I’ve been writing software for nearly 50 years and if you show me a man, who says he’s got a bug-free program, I’ll show you a liar.

To tell my story of yesterday, I send an e-mail entitled “Fix the iPhone, How About Fixing Coventry First”

I went to Coventry to see Ipswich play.  As I can’t drive because of my strokes, I took the excellent train from Euston.  However, there were no buses running from the city centre to the Ricoh Arena. Coventry was like a morgue too, with few restaurants and shops busy.  In the end two kind Coventry fans took me to the stadium, but the taxi back cost more than my lunch and almost as much as a one way ticket on the train. No wonder a only a small crowd turned up to the match.

Surely, if cities like Coventry want to attract visitors, they should put in public transport that works.  I suspect though that they’re all still in bed, as the Christmas iPhones don’t work. 

I tweeted the whole journey on my elderly Nokia 6310i, that has no bugs and an alarm that works.

After I’ve posted this, I’ll be sending copies to disinterested parties, who don’t care. I don’t anymore, as I won’t go to Coventry again to see football, without a cast-iron guarantee that buses are running to the Arena from the Station.

January 2, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Sport, Transport/Travel | Buses, Coventry, Football, Trains, Virgin Trains