Went for a job interview to Eastbourne from East Croydon and the station announcer said we should get in the first 4 coach of the train as it separates at Haywards Heath. Well l got in the first coach which, as it happens was the First Class compartment, I did not check to see, just went in as the men were being slightly pushy. The train was new and l noticed that the seats were comfortable; realising it was new it did not occur to me that it was the First Class coach. The notice also read and with the train announcer saying over the tannoy that the train has a First Class compartment and if you are sitting in it you may be liable to pay the fare difference. I seriously did not think I was in the First Class compartment until my return journey when I sat in the the third coach, the floor was different, the seats were hard, the writing surfaces were smaller and puny and there was something different in sitting in this coach as compared to the First Class one- yeah pesa na pesa. Even the smell is different like the vents exude a different smell- the seats are hard. Oh well time to rethink my First Class position.

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