Train Rules Via Australia

Today I got to spend 9 hours on a train headed south toward Sydney.  There are a few rules that I personally would like to implement of things that one should not do on a train.

The first one is never sing out loud to your IPod especially if you are tone death. This leads to the second one do not try to plug it into the shaving charger when it runs out of power it fries the IPod battery.  I can't say that any of my fellow travelers, me included in the cabin were really heart broken. 

Thirdly, babies do not like the rocking of trains.  I would have thought they might but since they were screaming and crying all the way I guess not.  I can say babies because it seems that when one of them was tired and their journey was done another one would get on the train to take their place.

The last rule but definitely not least, do not try to boot leg your own wine on the train.  It’s pretty embarrassing when it spills all over the bathroom floor and starts to run out the door.  I don't know which is worse the fact that it is wet when you walk out of the restroom or the fact that it smells like alcohol.  Trying to clean it up is not easy when the bathroom is out of toilet paper and they use air dryers for your hands.  Unfortunately that same bathroom is now out of sanitary napkin bags and I am not going to be the one to call for service. 

On the positive side I have to say the scenery was beautiful and I did like the tradition of tea and scones in the afternoon.  It was all very civilized. Early tomorrow morning I fly out to Perth.  I guess maybe some of these rules can apply to plane travel as well.