“It’s going to rain
You will get wet
Your team will be segregated
And you will lose.”
And a ‘Bon voyage’ to you too Mr TLF.
Not the words that a TLF needed to hear. She was already feeling under pressure; not having realised that looking up a few train times on behalf of those travelling to Maidenheadstone, would mean be newly christened Fox Tours. A new title means expectations, which seemed higher than a TLF in possession of a Trainline App necessarily merited. Although when you look at the meticulous research, carefully recorded as per illustration below, perhaps the faith was well founded.
TLF Tours – at the forefront of travel technology
The only thing is the business model might require a bit more work. Fox Tours are really good at getting people ‘there’. But if ‘there’ involves a pub, then Fox Tours doesn’t really do ‘getting back again’. And sometimes if it involves a pub before getting to the ground, we might not be responsible for that bit of the itinerary either. Perhaps a slight tweak to the small print is required..
And what of Mr TLF’s predictions for the day?
It did not rain; not a single brolly unfurled in anger.
We were, pointlessly segregated. Meaning no access to their fine sounding club house (boo!) but their food kiosk did have cans of Fosters (any lager-port in a storm) and some very fine pastry products.
We did most definitely lose.
But on the plus side TLF Tours had identified a decent pre match pub, which offered the holy trinity of snackage, and the staff at Maidenheadstone couldn’t have been nicer.
All the major food groups
Look out Mr TLF, you might just have a rival
One thing I don’t think any travel outfit can legislate for of course is Thameslink, so sadly the TLF Tours party did not reach their home destination at the scheduled time. Claims should be sent to Thameslink Trains, the small print making it clear that TLF Tours can’t be held responsible for the deficiencies of third party providers.
So TLF Tours survived its maiden (BOOM!) voyage. Perhaps we will expand our operations, current form on the pitch sadly suggests a ready made slogan. ‘TLF Tours, helping you smile in defeat’.
ABTA Fox