This is via Damien Mulley, one of his friends was on the Dart and this is what happened;

You can choose your friends

A woman got on Dart in Bray before I had time to properly go to sleep. Rather ok looking pram with child in it. On closer inspection, said child had Downs Syndrome. Downs Syndrome children are really affectionate, attentive and loving. The mother had pushed the pram half way up the carriage. Not ideal for ease of access or exit.

She proceeded to try to give the child its bottle of orange juice. On noticing that she had no bib, she asked two of our local Dart passengers, if they had some tissues. Kind passengers give woman tissues. It became obvious when the woman jumped up twice for the wrong stop, once at Glasthule and once at Dun Laoghaire that she was stoned.

I hadn’t judged her for her accent. I hadn’t judged her for looks. I hadn’t judged her for neglecting to carry a bib. I hadn’t judged her for rather roughly inserting the childs bottle. At the Dun Laoghaire effort to get off the train, she said ‘I ain’t really with it, Im gettin’ off at Tara’. My heart sank.

She then proceeded to meticulously arrange and fold two fifty Euro notes, that were in the end of her handbag. She wrapped the notes in an old train ticket. I could only think she was destined to ’score a fix’. My heart sank more. Young Downs Baby, no more that one and a half, looks at me and waves. I felt SICK.

After reading this, I have to admit I feel sick!

Damn, they’ve found me.. I’ll have a scan up of the article later, have to find a scanner! If anyone has a scanner please let me know!

Only this time last year I started working at Absolute Events. Wow its been a while! I am now no longer working there as Event Managment isn’t what I’m going into later on in life. [Still going for game design] So I decided to quit. It was a good year though. Over six months of it full time! So at the moment now I’m just working on a few PHP projects, to make some money! Then I’ll look for some freelance work, or work doing something else which would interest me! But for now, its late nights, long sleep ins, and pages of coding! I love it!