It's not just the trains that come late
By adamg - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 3:53pm.
Annie gets peckish at MBTA e-mail cancellation notes that arrive too late to do her any good.
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Annie gets peckish at MBTA e-mail cancellation notes that arrive too late to do her any good.
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She got hungry?
She got hungry?
For a peck of pickled peppers, yes
Doesn't "peckish" also mean "cranky"?
peck·ish (p?k'?sh) adj.
peck·ish (p?k'?sh) adj.
1. Ill-tempered; irritable.
2. Chiefly British. Somewhat hungry.
You're okay on this
Several dictionaries I have, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate have:
1 chiefly British: HUNGRY
2: CROTCHETY
You can figure out which commenter fits number 2.
Yes, it also means cranky.
Yes, it also means cranky. But since we Yanks never use it, and Brits generally use it has hungry, and it only means cranky as in "cranky because I'm hungry"....
At least Annie got an alert, unlike ... .
Last Thursday, when the 5:52 train to Haverhill was cancelled due to the freight train derailment in Lawrence.
They did send two T Alerts about the Andover to Haverhill bussing between 4:15 and 5:00, but didn't send anything about the 5:52 cancellation. As a reult, we were unaware of this until about 5 minutes before the train would have departed, when "Cancelled" was posted on the train board.
This posting was then followed by a PA announcement advising Haverhill passengers to take the next Downeaster - which was very odd, given the next CR train (which wasn't cancelled) was at 6:15.