"The whole train started laughing".
People on the train were laughing and smiling.
Whether we're talking about a black women's book club that got kicked off a Napa Valley Wine Train "for laughing too much" or Donald Trump Twitter trolling Megyn Kelly with a tweet that says "The bimbo is back," the hateful message is clear.
But by Tuesday we were all back at the training ground laughing, joking and reminding one another that every team loses, that we are only one game in.
"It does concern me on some level that people can't sit through a two-hour training without laughing about the very existence of trans people".
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union general secretary, Mick Cash, said British passengers were paying the highest fares in Europe to travel on rammed services while the private train companies were laughing all the way to the bank.
Asked if they had learned anything during their ostensible training, they laughed bitterly.
"Did you know that John Stapleton is toilet trained?" Douglas laughed out loud, once.
She spends time with families, cooks with locals, travels on overnight trains and laughs her way through the experience.
"I've been in training," she laughed.
