Annoying things people do on trains

[Greshamst]

[Frank7]

ashleyman said:

The amount of times I had to ask some fat middle aged bloke to stand up so a pregnant woman could sit down was more numerous than I can remember.

I do not miss commuting at all.

You may have given a perfectly valid and acceptable reason why not, and I’ve missed it, in which case I apologise unreservedly, but was there a reason why you didn’t offer YOUR seat to one of the numerous pregnant women?

[ashleyman]

Frank7 said:

ashleyman said:

The amount of times I had to ask some fat middle aged bloke to stand up so a pregnant woman could sit down was more numerous than I can remember.

I do not miss commuting at all.

You may have given a perfectly valid and acceptable reason why not, and I’ve missed it, in which case I apologise unreservedly, but was there a reason why you didn’t offer YOUR seat to one of the numerous pregnant women?

Oh, let me think. What could it be? Why wouldn't I offer my seat? Yes, that's right I was also STANDING.

[anonymous-user]

What about people who wander around the station (tube is the worst) reading a book or messing about on their phones like the meandering undead? Or the people who try to push past, down the rammed platform as I patiently follow said zombies?

[mickk]

Sa Calobra said:

toastybase said:

People who use the bins by the doors as a unrinal

You need to expand on this!

No he doesn't!

[toastybase]

Sa Calobra said:

toastybase said:

People who use the bins by the doors as a unrinal

You need to expand on this!

I saw an old bloke using the bin by the doors as a unrinal. He wasn’t a drunk but the train from Reading to Paddington became rather smelly

[iwantagta]

Greshamst said:

Blimey - when was this made? £2.85 for an uppercrust?
Must have been around 2008!

[Disastrous]

yeager2004 said:

Okay, this is pretty petty, certainly compared to some of the gripes posted here.

But my personal irritation people who remain seated and make no effort to start making the way towards the doors as the train approaches the station. Then, as soon as the train stops, they push their way out of their seat and expect the people who got off their arses a few minutes early in order to be near the doors to give way to them.

I can’t stand people getting up before the train has stopped. There are about 5 seconds from train stopping to doors opening. Use them to stand up and walk smartly off the train in one smooth gesture.

Don’t get up ten minutes before your stop, lurching about the corridor like a pissed tramp and even worse, being irritated at those of us with the composure to just get up when it stops!

[Cold]

It's a big train, I think there are ten carriages on it this time and it really isn't particularly busy this afternoon. So why have you decided to sit next to me? There are plenty of empty seats further down.
Must be my new haircut - or aftershave. Possibly the combination of both.

[Frank7]

ashleyman said:

Frank7 said:

ashleyman said:

The amount of times I had to ask some fat middle aged bloke to stand up so a pregnant woman could sit down was more numerous than I can remember.

I do not miss commuting at all.

You may have given a perfectly valid and acceptable reason why not, and I’ve missed it, in which case I apologise unreservedly, but was there a reason why you didn’t offer YOUR seat to one of the numerous pregnant women?

Oh, let me think. What could it be? Why wouldn't I offer my seat? Yes, that's right I was also STANDING.

Can’t get much more valid than that, Christ knows why that didn’t occur to me, unreserved apologies from me to you, as promised.

[GipsyHillClimber]

I'm sure this has been said before but one of my major (potentially unreasonable) bugbears is the large number of people who stand in one spot on a platform waiting for a train and then as soon as the train pulls in and starts slowing down they all start walking en masse alongside the train. Most of the time i get huffed or tutted at for standing in the spot i chose near the yellow line when i arrived at the platform as they walk around me or nearly into me.

All of these people look like serial commuters so i can't be a surprise that a ten car train arriving means that you will be able to get on wherever you stand on the platform, i really just don't understand the hive mind lemming approach.

Also people who lean against the middle pole in the tube in the centre of the tube carriage when it's full, again they look annoyed when i tap their shoulder or ask them to make room for people to hold onto the pole, i may resort to kidney punches on these cretins in the future.

[fido]

Similar to the premature ejectors who get up from their seats minutes before the train has actually arrived ..

Snail-like commuters who fight to beat you off the train first [maybe that was badly phrased] but then hobble along the platform - why don't you just let me off first? I'm clearly an athletic two-directorship with a sub 4s 0-60, that's inches, who will be down the stairs and out of the station before you've even managed to haul your fat wobbling ass half way down the platform.

[BaronVonVaderham]

wormus said:

What about people who wander around the station (tube is the worst) reading a book or messing about on their phones like the meandering undead?

They all need shooting. Especially the ones holding their phone in landscape mode as they continue to watch their tv shows whilst walking.

[Yipper]

Just seen a woman on a busy train pretending to be "asleep" while stacking her bags on the spare seat beside her. Head tilted in hand and looking down at the floor, etc. Took 2 taps on the shoulder to "wake her up". Crafty old goat.

[Cotty]

fido said:

Similar to the premature ejectors who get up from their seats minutes before the train has actually arrived ..

Someone on my train gets up the stop before theirs and then waits by the door.

[Europa1]

Frank7 said:

Can’t get much more valid than that, Christ knows why that didn’t occur to me, unreserved apologies from me to you, as promised.

Frank7, this should be framed for posterity and shown to some of the more dogmatic frequenters of N, P & E who utterly refuse to back down/apologise/consider an alternative view.

Bravo, sir.

[Europa1]

GipsyHillClimber said:

I'm sure this has been said before but one of my major (potentially unreasonable) bugbears is the large number of people who stand in one spot on a platform waiting for a train and then as soon as the train pulls in and starts slowing down they all start walking en masse alongside the train. Most of the time i get huffed or tutted at for standing in the spot i chose near the yellow line when i arrived at the platform as they walk around me or nearly into me.

All of these people look like serial commuters so i can't be a surprise that a ten car train arriving means that you will be able to get on wherever you stand on the platform, i really just don't understand the hive mind lemming approach.

If it's unreasonable then I am also unreasonable, as it winds me up too - particularly as often by the time the train stops, there is a door right by where they were originally standing. I take a childish pleasure from standing still as they get irked that I am "in their way".

[DRFC1879]

Cotty said:

fido said:

Similar to the premature ejectors who get up from their seats minutes before the train has actually arrived ..

Someone on my train gets up the stop before theirs and then waits by the door.

I've got crap knees. They become quite painful when seated with them in a bent position for more than fifteen minutes until such time as I straighten my legs with a loud crack and the pressure subsides. For this reason I quite often get up ten minutes before my stop and make my way to the vestibule. Everyone probably thinks I'm insane but fk 'em.

[blueg33]

GipsyHillClimber said:

I'm sure this has been said before but one of my major (potentially unreasonable) bugbears is the large number of people who stand in one spot on a platform waiting for a train and then as soon as the train pulls in and starts slowing down they all start walking en masse alongside the train. Most of the time i get huffed or tutted at for standing in the spot i chose near the yellow line when i arrived at the platform as they walk around me or nearly into me.

All of these people look like serial commuters so i can't be a surprise that a ten car train arriving means that you will be able to get on wherever you stand on the platform, i really just don't understand the hive mind lemming approach.

Serial commuters know where the train doors will stop, so don't need to walk down the platform, they are already in the right place.

[_Neal_]

blueg33 said:

GipsyHillClimber said:

I'm sure this has been said before but one of my major (potentially unreasonable) bugbears is the large number of people who stand in one spot on a platform waiting for a train and then as soon as the train pulls in and starts slowing down they all start walking en masse alongside the train. Most of the time i get huffed or tutted at for standing in the spot i chose near the yellow line when i arrived at the platform as they walk around me or nearly into me.

All of these people look like serial commuters so i can't be a surprise that a ten car train arriving means that you will be able to get on wherever you stand on the platform, i really just don't understand the hive mind lemming approach.

Serial commuters know where the train doors will stop, so don't need to walk down the platform, they are already in the right place.

Exactly. Walking down the platform is amateurish