I thought that the recently opened Dubai Metro was going to be almost as much fun and that turned out to be true too, but in a slightly different way.
The Metro stations are immaculate, direction signs are and fares are cheap. The trains are driverless so on my first two journeys I got in the front carriage to enjoy a head on view of the track and the city.
Unfortunately I began to take my front row ‘seat’ for granted and came unstuck today. Here’s what happened… I walk in the front carriage, head for the window and begin sight seeing. A smartly uniformed lady then says hello to me. “That’s good,” I thought, “they occasionally have staff on board to help people out.” She asked me for my ticket and told me that I was in Gold Class!
Gold Class? Yes, before being politely ejected, I noticed leather seats and carpeted floors although there were still people standing. Madam kindly asked me to join the masses further back so I headed into the next carriage and got lots of stares. How come? You guessed it, I was in the ladies carriage! Ooo errr missus, that’ll teach me to take more notice of the signs.
I think I’ll sit in the middle from now on…
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