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Smarty Jones
Citizen
Username: Birdstone
Post Number: 369
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 8:32 am: |     |
2 years now, and it's still several minutes late....anyone ever think to tell the Bank Manager to have that fixed? Is the temparature guage off as well?
I always approach the station thinking I'm early (on the clock time), only to see my train pulling in and realize that I'm actually LATE. |
Scrotis Lo Knows
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 798
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 12:31 pm: | |
Blame it on global warming....  |
Bob K
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 10761
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 12:34 pm: | |
Smarty, not only is the clock you can see from the platform probably wrong, but the other clock on the street side doesn't match it. Neither do the temperature readings. LOL |
Hank Zona
Supporter
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5291
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 1:05 pm: | |
microclimates, Bob  |
Lucy Smith
Citizen
Username: Lucy123
Post Number: 93
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 1:12 pm: | |
Smarty: For two years you have noticed it's wrong...why do you continue to look at it for your gauge of early/late/on time for the train? Just seems strange to continue to look at it if you KNOW it's wrong. IMHO |
Oldstone
Citizen
Username: Rogers4317
Post Number: 553
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 1:14 pm: | |
BINGO ! |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 7036
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 1:19 pm: | |
That clock has been off for a lot more than two years. It's been inaccurate ever since a certain person or persons kept hitting it with projectiles, taking the clock completely out of service for extended periods of time. |
Eats Shoots & Leaves
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 3051
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 1:40 pm: | |
Not microclimates, Hank. It is actually a small black hole and time and temperature vary minutely but significantly as you near the event horizon. |
Smarty Jones
Citizen
Username: Birdstone
Post Number: 384
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 2:23 pm: | |
Lucy- I'm a born optimist, and everyday I wake up and think that today is the day that the Annoying clock was FIXED!.....only to be foiled....kind of like groundhog day. |
Lucy Smith
Citizen
Username: Lucy123
Post Number: 94
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 2:42 pm: | |
All the power to you Smarty...just so long as you remember each morning that NJ Transit doesn't run by the Valley Bank Clock but runs on its own clock (some days who knows what it is actually ;)
Not that you asked but I find it much better to set my own clocks to the NY Penn Station time (the one on the screen saying ALL ABOARD), since that is the clock the trains move on. I find it makes for a lot less running and "hoping" that since MY clock says I'm on time, according to NY Penn I'm 2 minutes late.
Just something I've found to make the commute a little less stressful on those last minute days! False hope is not what I need at 6:40 in the morning....
Ok...that's my two cents for the day..... |
Lou
Citizen
Username: Flf
Post Number: 67
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 7:35 pm: | |
not only are the time and the temperature incorrect, but the convertion from farenheit to centigrades don't seem to match at all!
you would think at least the covertion calculator would be able to translate whatever temperature was marked correctly... |
Paris Hiltonberry
Supporter
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 6820
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 8:10 pm: | |
This is the smartest thread started to date on MOL. That clock is a royal pain. It's amazing a clock so close to a train station can be so off.. |
Guy
Supporter
Username: Vandalay
Post Number: 1562
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 8:15 pm: | |
Does this mean that Protect the Constitution Tomorrow at Maplewood will start late? |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 7038
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 7:40 am: | |
Depends on which clock you go by.  |
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