Boxing Day Help needed

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  1. mkhornette

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    Hey all,

    My morning started happily, until I've found no transport to Watford Junction from Milton Keynes on Boxing day :(

    No trains
    No national express coach

    Anyone got any ideas that I can check? I haven't missed a boxing day match for a few seasons now. I'm a Rookery season ticket holder and go to as many away games as possible.

    I am a genuine fan, please help!!!!!

    I'll be dammed if I watch us on sky sports, and I don't want to spend Boxing day with the family. Christmas is bad enough lol.
     
  2. jobr

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    Someone must drive down from near your way.
     
  3. Arthur Daley

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    or a long walk;D ;D ;D
     
  4. mkhornette

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    lol, looks like im walking then. I had better ask for a map for Christmas ;);D
     
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    mkhornette ....

    Don't know how old U are but I wouldn't accept any casual offers of a lift from people you don't know.
     
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    Budfrog, what about really formal offers of a lift?
     
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    Can't u bus it to L****/Dunstable then bus it via hemel to the promised land.....pain in the backside i know, but if they're running might be u'r only option...
     
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    :D I Think U Get My Drift :D
     
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    Depending what my family have got planned for Boxing day I may be able to give your a lift I have the miss fortune of being in Luton over xmas as my wife still lives there.
     
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    Hey Viv , my dad works for silverlink and he's working boxing day help shunting trains about etc

    anyway if i ask my dad nicely you might be able to hitch a lift down to watford


    i cant promise anything though.
     
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    40-50 miles each way at Bank Holiday rates, are you mad?
     
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    slightly..! ;)

    But id rather do that than walk!!!
     
  14. Arthur Daley

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    CAN U REACH AYLESBURY AND GO IN VIA THE CHILTERN LINES:confused: :confused: :confused:
     
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    Mad or very rich.:p

    No doubt you could go on a reasonable holiday for the cost of that return taxi trip :)
     
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    there is no rail replacement coach service running:D :D
     
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    depends if you consider a last minute trip to shagaluf reasonable!!! ;)
     
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    i think you may get further afield than that.

    Some cracking Red Sea deals available at present :)
     
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    how much do you reckon it would cost in a cab?
     
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    On Boxing day?
     
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    A quick google.

    Not bed or Buks council but another.

    Xmas day and Boxing day is a 50% surcharge.

    normal rates are £2.20 for the first 6/17th's of a mile and then 20p per 1/17th of a mile.

    So say its 50 miles each way as we dont know where abouts she lives.

    £2.20 standing charge
    Each mile is £3.40
    £3.40 x 49 = £166.60 + £2.20 = £168.80 + 50%= £337.60 x there and back = £675.20.

    if i have worked that out correctly, as i never attended school.
     
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    holy carp!!!

    thats a lot. definately rather go on holiday!
     
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