Annoying things people do on trains
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t music played so loudly that I can hear lyrics even though the cretin is using headphones
Bags on seats
Taking up an entire table with laptop/bags/Costa
Loud, pissed up wkers
People having loud conversations on their phones
Fat, sweaty tossers
People with bikes
Pretty much just people!!!!!!
t music played so loudly that I can hear lyrics even though the cretin is using headphonesBags on seats
Taking up an entire table with laptop/bags/Costa
Loud, pissed up w
kersPeople having loud conversations on their phones
Fat, sweaty tossers
People with bikes
Pretty much just people!!!!!!
I once had the misfortune of commuting by train. Every day, the same people, in roughly the same seats. Every day, the same people getting up at the same time, standing by the doors to get off at the same stop. Every day, the same crowd squash up against the doors on the platform when the train stops. Every day, the same people looking rather indignant when they have to step back from the doors again when they open so that the same people can get off the train before they get on. Every single day the same stupidity. Do these people never, ever learn?
People talking on the phone in the quiet carriage, there is a reason I get in that carriage, because it is quiet. fk off.
I used to commute with a colleague before he left and we used to play the game of name that tune when people had their music playing too loudly on their stty iPhone headphones. We used to play it quite loudly and managed to shame a few into turning their music down when we had the whole carriage laughing at them and their stty music 
k off.I used to commute with a colleague before he left and we used to play the game of name that tune when people had their music playing too loudly on their s
tty iPhone headphones. We used to play it quite loudly and managed to shame a few into turning their music down when we had the whole carriage laughing at them and their stty music 
People who :
Get in the quiet coach and are then not quiet
People who cant sit still, i.e. who keep getting up and walking up and down the train to go the toilet or the restaurant car, not just once in a journey but four or five times in the space of an hour
Not letting people off before trying to get on
Reserving a seat and then not sitting in it, particular when its busy
Standing in the vestibule and blocking it up so that nobody can get to the obviously empty seats in the carriage
Taking a massive, I mean huge suitcase with you, so big that it doesn't fit in the luggage rack(s)
Music that leaks from cheap sh*t quality headphones
People who sit in an aisle seat and then dont move over or make a fuss about getting up when asked to move
Getting up to get off at the next stop when the train is quite some considerable distance from the stop and the blocking up the aisle / vestibule ( see points above )
Get in the quiet coach and are then not quiet
People who cant sit still, i.e. who keep getting up and walking up and down the train to go the toilet or the restaurant car, not just once in a journey but four or five times in the space of an hour
Not letting people off before trying to get on
Reserving a seat and then not sitting in it, particular when its busy
Standing in the vestibule and blocking it up so that nobody can get to the obviously empty seats in the carriage
Taking a massive, I mean huge suitcase with you, so big that it doesn't fit in the luggage rack(s)
Music that leaks from cheap sh*t quality headphones
People who sit in an aisle seat and then dont move over or make a fuss about getting up when asked to move
Getting up to get off at the next stop when the train is quite some considerable distance from the stop and the blocking up the aisle / vestibule ( see points above )
fizzwheel said:
Getting up to get off at the next stop when the train is quite some considerable distance from the stop and the blocking up the aisle / vestibule ( see points above )
I had to laugh today - on the way to London this morning they did the "we are now arriving at London Euston" when we were still 25 mins away. Quite how some people thought we'd made the hour journey in 35 mins is beyond me. Anyway, the train was packed and a load of people stood up ready to get off the train... And in doing so effectively gave up their seats to the many people who had been standing for the first half of the journey.The look on their faces when the train manager apologised for the early call from the malfunctioning computer was priceless!
It does get that way - I've been doing my train commute for 17.5 years.Thick Chavs who don't know how to behave in public
5.20pm train into London yesterday, 3 blokes, age between 25 and 35, every other word was effing this, effeing that, s**t, c**t etc etc, all very loudly. If they cut out the profanities they could of finished the conversation 20 minutes earlier! Maybe thats the point of all the 'padding', not much to say?
I didn't have my young children with me, nor were there others around, but if I had / there were then I would had to have said something.
Sadly, I probably would have been stabbed for my troubles
5.20pm train into London yesterday, 3 blokes, age between 25 and 35, every other word was effing this, effeing that, s**t, c**t etc etc, all very loudly. If they cut out the profanities they could of finished the conversation 20 minutes earlier! Maybe thats the point of all the 'padding', not much to say?
I didn't have my young children with me, nor were there others around, but if I had / there were then I would had to have said something.
Sadly, I probably would have been stabbed for my troubles
Blargh, all of these. People just can't manage to behave in public. The whole video calling/holding the phone in front of you on speakerphone grips my st.
On a recent tourist bus however, I had a strange quiet German guy next to me who, shortly after leaving, took his shoes and socks off and was buttering his hairy feet liberally with some sort of cream. A woman behind me was clipping her toenails.
Yum
t.On a recent tourist bus however, I had a strange quiet German guy next to me who, shortly after leaving, took his shoes and socks off and was buttering his hairy feet liberally with some sort of cream. A woman behind me was clipping her toenails.
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Blargh, all of these. People just can't manage to behave in public. The whole video calling/holding the phone in front of you on speakerphone grips my st.
On a recent tourist bus however, I had a strange quiet German guy next to me who, shortly after leaving, took his shoes and socks off and was buttering his hairy feet liberally with some sort of cream. A woman behind me was clipping her toenails.
Yum
t.On a recent tourist bus however, I had a strange quiet German guy next to me who, shortly after leaving, took his shoes and socks off and was buttering his hairy feet liberally with some sort of cream. A woman behind me was clipping her toenails.
Yum
JD PH said:
I had to laugh today - on the way to London this morning they did the "we are now arriving at London Euston" when we were still 25 mins away. Quite how some people thought we'd made the hour journey in 35 mins is beyond me. Anyway, the train was packed and a load of people stood up ready to get off the train... And in doing so effectively gave up their seats to the many people who had been standing for the first half of the journey.
The look on their faces when the train manager apologised for the early call from the malfunctioning computer was priceless!
Haha! I go to Euston every day - wish I'd been there to witness that one The look on their faces when the train manager apologised for the early call from the malfunctioning computer was priceless!
My train has quite a few "airline" seats - the pairs of seats facing the same way. They have a bit more legroom so I usually go for these, being tall - and if there are empty pairs of these seats I'll choose the seat by the window, leaving the aisle seat free.
What gets me is the silent "fk off I don't want to share this space" from almost everyone else who finds an empty pair. They ALWAYS sit in the outside seat, preying on the fact that some people do actually avoid asking to sit down and will go elsewhere - or sit out by the door on the floor. They always find something interesting to stare at in the back of the seat in front of them as you approach too. I make a point of asking if the seat is free, even if other seats are available.
Linked to this are the ones who will let you sit down but insist on not moving an inch, even if their leg is spread unnaturally over into your space. And the chair arm hogger.
Then there are the people who make business calls on the morning commute. Bearing in mind my train is at 6.50am, surely calling people at that time is a little unreasonable - never mind for work purposes...
And then there are the friends who get on the train and sit in opposite corners of a set of 4 or 6 seats and talk so loudly across the table at each other that you can follow their conversation several seats away - and continue to when the other seats get taken by total strangers now sat around them.
That's quite enough of that for now, I do it all again in the morning...
What gets me is the silent "f
k off I don't want to share this space" from almost everyone else who finds an empty pair. They ALWAYS sit in the outside seat, preying on the fact that some people do actually avoid asking to sit down and will go elsewhere - or sit out by the door on the floor. They always find something interesting to stare at in the back of the seat in front of them as you approach too. I make a point of asking if the seat is free, even if other seats are available.Linked to this are the ones who will let you sit down but insist on not moving an inch, even if their leg is spread unnaturally over into your space. And the chair arm hogger.
Then there are the people who make business calls on the morning commute. Bearing in mind my train is at 6.50am, surely calling people at that time is a little unreasonable - never mind for work purposes...
And then there are the friends who get on the train and sit in opposite corners of a set of 4 or 6 seats and talk so loudly across the table at each other that you can follow their conversation several seats away - and continue to when the other seats get taken by total strangers now sat around them.
That's quite enough of that for now, I do it all again in the morning...
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