I visited Newcastle yesterday, and realised something.
Whatever train/bus/form of public transport you ever get, it is an absolute rarity to see someone smiling. This is not a conclusion I've just come to, it's something I've noticed basically since I started second year at university (and had to get the train pretty much every day). I've tried to change it in the past, by doing something obviously stupid, for example, but still the amount of smilers on the platform remains seldom.
How to fix this? Maybe we'll never know, maybe we're resigned to a life of miserable commutes surrounded by the never-happy (or maybe once-upon-a-time happy) travellers resigned to the fact that they'll never actually get out of the rat race that is public transport.
Conclusion: Keep Smiling.
