Passengers with annoying/disgusting habits…

[izvor]

Changing baby's soiled nappy on top deck of bus, then leaving said nappy behind on seat.

Well, you did ask!

 

[blue87]

Changing baby's soiled nappy on top deck of bus, then leaving said nappy behind on seat.

Well, you did ask!

I've seen that done on train tables

 

[izvor]

I've seen that done on train tables

Another reason for AI to abolish the human race!

 

[mikeb42]

People. All people.

The most succinct and accurate response availabile.

The only person on a train in recent years with reasonable prospects of an entire journey surrounded by basic civility is the driver.

I'd love to have a steel wall between me and my fellow passengers a lot of the time. It seems even this isn't enough going by occasional testimony by drivers on here. The soundproofing needs to be more capable of isolating them from the mobile zoo they're in charge of.

Personally I'm hoping GBR will start issuing guards with a taser and/or baseball bat to enforce the quiet carriage. I'd happily pay a surcharge for that .

As for complaints about people eating with the manners of zoo residents, while I don't disagree, the root problem with half of them is that they're eating in the first place. Much of the time the long distance trains at night leaving Paddington are toxified with a rancid stench halfway between a curry house and a wheelie bin.

The "best" individual incident I've encountered was a couple blatantly if marginally surreptitiously having sex in the seats at one end of an HST carriage approaching Bristol one evening. Me stopping to engage with them, folding my arms and saying "Well go on then, get on with it" admittedly could have backfired but seemed to rather put off the "gentleman" of the couple and leave his partner even more red faced than she already was. You can't have it both ways, you're either doing it in public or you aren't. In all seriousness they ought really have been made to have a conversation with the BTP, but how long would that have taken? I'd had quite enough of being imprisoned in a steel box with a bunch of intoxicated barely evolved primates for one evening and judged that they might reconsider after that.

No wonder people buy cars.

 

[saismee]

The only person on a train in recent years with reasonable prospects of an entire journey surrounded by basic civility is the driver.

Hmm. You should see the state some of the cabs are left in. Crumbs and things aren't quite as bad as what you described later in your post though!

Lots of spiders in the cab too for some reason.

 

[xotGD]

On Thursday there was someone on our train in desperate need of a good bath. They walked past us four times, each time leaving a stench in their wake. Thoughts and prayers for those sat near to them.

 

[Iskra]

I've had someone vomit into a bag on a late night train and leave it on the floor for the cleaners....

I had that recently, which I suppose has an element of courtesy about it, assuming the situation is inevitable. Unfortunately, the bottom of the bag gave way due to the volume. Cleaning staff did a remarkable job of cleaning it up though.

My nominations are loud/discourteous eaters, people playing tinny phone noises out loud or that one person in an otherwise quiet carriage who has their phone doing that ‘ping’ every time they get a message/email/whatever. Completely unnecessary.

I pretty much always carry my noise-cancelling headphones, which improves afternoon/evening rail travel immensely. The morning commuters are normally pretty well behaved and seem to understand how a train carriage should be at that time, to give some credit.

 

[yorksrob]

I've seen that done on train tables

Yes, seen that too. Was quite grossed out.

 

[yorksrob]

The most succinct and accurate response availabile.

The only person on a train in recent years with reasonable prospects of an entire journey surrounded by basic civility is the driver.

I'd love to have a steel wall between me and my fellow passengers a lot of the time. It seems even this isn't enough going by occasional testimony by drivers on here. The soundproofing needs to be more capable of isolating them from the mobile zoo they're in charge of.

Personally I'm hoping GBR will start issuing guards with a taser and/or baseball bat to enforce the quiet carriage. I'd happily pay a surcharge for that .

As for complaints about people eating with the manners of zoo residents, while I don't disagree, the root problem with half of them is that they're eating in the first place. Much of the time the long distance trains at night leaving Paddington are toxified with a rancid stench halfway between a curry house and a wheelie bin.

The "best" individual incident I've encountered was a couple blatantly if marginally surreptitiously having sex in the seats at one end of an HST carriage approaching Bristol one evening. Me stopping to engage with them, folding my arms and saying "Well go on then, get on with it" admittedly could have backfired but seemed to rather put off the "gentleman" of the couple and leave his partner even more red faced than she already was. You can't have it both ways, you're either doing it in public or you aren't. In all seriousness they ought really have been made to have a conversation with the BTP, but how long would that have taken? I'd had quite enough of being imprisoned in a steel box with a bunch of intoxicated barely evolved primates for one evening and judged that they might reconsider after that.

No wonder people buy cars.

Did one of them light a cigarette afterwards and did you say:

"Excuse me, this is a no-smoking compound"

 

[mmh]

Did one of them light a cigarette afterwards and did you say:

"Excuse me, this is a no-smoking compound"

I watched that the other day. Decades later it's still hilarious despite having seen it hundreds of times. She really was so, so talented.

 

[yorksrob]

I watched that the other day. Decades later it's still hilarious despite having seen it hundreds of times. She really was so, so talented.

Yes, she's still sorely missed.

 

[wench]

Someone very stinky on the train today. Alas I can’t figure out which direction it’s coming from to move away from it.

 

[jon81uk]

Indeed. Leaving a folded newspaper behind isn't litter, it's being considerate. It's dieing out sadly, but this was the norm in pubs for many, many decades. If you don't want it, you place it on another table on the train or in the pub, or along the bar for someone else who might.

I disagree, but mainly based on the London Underground where people leave the paper on the seat and the only other place for it is the floor. I've also picked up left papers that turn out to have chewing gum or other food within them, I don't want to sit down and get someone elses waste on my clothing

Free papers cause a remarkable amount of litter - Euston used to gather up several sacks worth , but rarely one of the so-called "quality papers" , trains always got a litter pick but never this amount.

Yep its the free ones that are the bigger issue just clogging up the carriage. I get a high-quality paper being left neatly folded on a train table, but on the Underground and commuter trains without tables its far better for people to take all litter with them, including papers.

 

[saismee]

Yep its the free ones that are the bigger issue just clogging up the carriage. I get a high-quality paper being left neatly folded on a train table, but on the Underground and commuter trains without tables its far better for people to take all litter with them, including papers.

Definitely different experiences for people in this thread. I only have experience with seeing newspapers on intercity stock where it's not really problematic, but I can see where you're coming from with the rest. It's too big to fit in one of the on-train bins so you really do end up stuck with it if someone leaves it behind.

 

[wench]

Another train, another filthy minger.

Empty carriage, yet someone that is coughing and spluttering constantly decides to sit behind me.

 

[yorksrob]

I disagree, but mainly based on the London Underground where people leave the paper on the seat and the only other place for it is the floor. I've also picked up left papers that turn out to have chewing gum or other food within them, I don't want to sit down and get someone elses waste on my clothing

Yep its the free ones that are the bigger issue just clogging up the carriage. I get a high-quality paper being left neatly folded on a train table, but on the Underground and commuter trains without tables its far better for people to take all litter with them, including papers.

Certainly on the Southern, the done thing was to leave your newspaper in the luggage rack. Obviously not an option on the tube !

 

[xotGD]

Certainly on the Southern, the done thing was to leave your newspaper in the luggage rack. Obviously not an option on the tube !

At Newcastle, you could get hold of a copy of the Evening Standard by popping onto a terminator from King's Cross.

 

[Acathater]

Nose pickers who then eat it ( vile yuck)

What do you expect them to do with it? Eating it is better than flicking it away, or wiping it on a seat

 

[Willie Bee]

In the 80s I landed at Johannesburg Airport and went to the Gents, to find a man washing his feet in the sink

 

[John Luxton]

I am surprised no one has mentioned encountering a heavy vape user on a nearby seat.

My close encounters tend to have been on the buses mainly - but they obviously vape so much it clings to their clothes and they have a sickly sweet aura about them - just as those who used to smoke to much used to stink.

Also throw in those that smoke other illegal substances as well again I have tended to encounter them more on buses than trains.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

What do you expect them to do with it? Eating it is better than flicking it away, or wiping it on a seat

Wipe it in a tissue or hanky?