Seat-hogging tactic

[maniacmartin]

Actually I think there may be 8 seats there. FCC fan, you haven't traveled on the tube much if you think seats are allocated on a first in, first to get the seat basis. It's just not practical at peak times.

 

[Bungle73]

Aside from that, how would you feel if you had been standing for 20 minutes or more and then somebody who had only got on the train at the previous station immediately jumped into a vacated seat

It's tough luck. On the Tube it's fastest bum first who gets the seat...unless the person actually needs a seat because they are disabled or pregnant or something. If I get on a Tube how am I to know who's been standing for how long? You might have just got on at the previous station which was 60 seconds away.

 

[1018509]

I have seen a "gentleman of the road" with a personal hygiene problem enter an overstuffed tube train, London bound, one morning and immediately get half the section he entered to himself almost immediately.

 

[GodAtum]

I have seen a "gentleman of the road" with a personal hygiene problem enter an overstuffed tube train, London bound, one morning and immediately get half the section he entered to himself almost immediately.

Mmmm interesting, maybe I should buy a fart machine lol.

 

[tony_mac]

I'd say that it's actually predominately the older generation. Youngsters tend to have much more manners these days.

Ahhhh, guilty without trial I see!

Opinions like that make my blood boil!

Spot the irony?

It is statistically accurate that young people are far more likely to commit a knife crime than older people.

I wonder if this was some crazy guy looking for a confrontation, it doesn't really seem to make a lot of sense.

 

[maniacmartin]

Jeni's comment wasn't about knife crime statistics though, it was about rudeness.

I also doubt that the knife-carrying type of person is likely to be on the tube doing a commuter flow at rush hour.

 

[Cruithne3753]

I have seen a "gentleman of the road" with a personal hygiene problem enter an overstuffed tube train, London bound, one morning and immediately get half the section he entered to himself almost immediately.

There was one such miasmic individual sitting in one of the display cars at the London Transport museum when I visited there!

 

[tsr]

I also doubt that the knife-carrying type of person is likely to be on the tube doing a commuter flow at rush hour.

It is not unknown at all.

 

[DarloRich]

If anyone wants to barge past rude people breaking byelaws, simply get off a train heading to Sunderland (which calls at Eaglescliffe for the louts) or Middlesbrough on a Saturday night at York. It was great the other week as I was getting my bike off. I simply repeated an instruction not to board while passengers were getting off while forcibly moving my bike toward the door. So when they squeezed past me, it was not me they squeezed past, it was my handlebar . Not a great decision by the louts! Sadly a bike wouldn't be permitted in the central section of the Jubilee line.

I always make sure I get one up on the scumbags. On a previous occasion I got their alcohol confiscated - result!

God you are a miserable so and so! People going for a night out, having fun and enjoying themselves - what rotters

I would have just asked him to move then moved him if he didnt move. 25 years of playing rugby as a prop forward comes in useful on the tube

OR simply started talking to him. The cockneys hate you talking to them on the tube. Thier selfish fragile little brains can not compute how anyone would dare to speak to them. It is the best way to get a seat or some space on the tube.

 

[Tomonthetrain]

I just start playing gangnam style on my phone. People get up to dance, I get a seat

 

[elagueesti]

I've noticed people reluctant to move down the carriage on the Jubilee line (and all other LU lines, for that matter), but usually a sharp "EXCUSE ME PLEASE" is enough to get troublemakers out of the way.

It reminded me of an incident I had on the Hammersmith and City line during the Paralympic fortnight - I managed to find my write up on it from Facebook (yes, I am that sad ):

Approaching the only empty seat on the Hammersmith & City line train I had boarded, the conversation with the man sat in the adjacent seat flowed thus:

Man: My friend come over to sit there.

Me: What?

Man: My friend come over.

Man then calls over to friend (chatting to what can only be accurately described as a bimbo) who replies "I'll be over soon, give me five minutes".

Man: Seat taken, he come over soon.

Me: Either he sits down in the next five seconds, or I'm sitting there.

Man: But my friend want sit there!

Me: This isn't a theatre, you can't reserve seats.

Man: What theatre? Don't panic, don't panic.

Me: I'm not in a panic about it, I'm just sitting down.

Man: English!

Me: Sod off.

Man opposite couldn't stop laughing and a young couple who I think were going to the Paralympics gave me a thumbs up. Job done for the day.

As I often say to people who complain about London (and Londoners), I don't think they are ruder than in any other part of the country. The problem is that when they do encounter blatant rudeness they either pretend to carry on reading their newspaper or feign deafness, nobody being willing (or brave) enough to stand up for themselves. I have found my experiences on suburban trains around Glasgow to be much more pleasant.

 

[Nym]

Anyone else barge people out the way who don't use escalators correctly?

Some of us have places to be and the escalators are busy enough without plebs blocking it up...(!)
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If I had been there, I would have moved his luggage to gain access. I might even have moved it to the platform.

Yes, moving it onto the platform can work quite nicely if it's timed well. Or simply moving it somewhere else in the train...

 

[elagueesti]

I frequently shout "THERE ARE SIGNS, PLEASE MOVE" to escalator hoggers. Should they tut or rebuke me then my usual retort is "some of us have places to go, we can't all dither in fairy land" which usually silences the offender.

 

[Bungle73]

I was going down the escalators to the Piccadilly Line at South Kensington Tube (I'd just been to the V&A) and I was unfortunate to get mixed in a party of teenaged school children going the same way the other week. For some reason their teacher was telling them all to stand on the left, completely blocking it for anyone they wanted to walk down!

 

[Nym]

I was going down the escalators to the Piccadilly Line at South Kensington Tube (I'd just been to the V&A) and I was unfortunate to get mixed in a party of teenaged school children going the same way the other week. For some reason their teacher was telling them all to stand on the left, completely blocking it for anyone they wanted to walk down!

Shout at the teacher?

Also, why wasn't this 'large' and by large I assume you mean 20 or over, group being escorted through the station, South Ken isn't exactly short on staff...

 

[calc7]

shout at the teacher?

+1 ...

 

[Bungle73]

Shout at the teacher?

There was a bit too many people and it was too confused. I just wanted to get to the platform where hopefully I'd be separated from them. Thankfully they appeared to be catching a train heading the other way.

Also, why wasn't this 'large' and by large I assume you mean 20 or over, group being escorted through the station, South Ken isn't exactly short on staff...

Probably a class or two's worth I should imagine.

Escorted? Is that standard practice? I've seen various school parties on the public transport network during my travels and I've never seen any of them being escorted, except by their teachers or whoever.

 

[transmanche]

For some reason their teacher was telling them all to stand on the left

Was the teacher an Australian? Confused the heck out of me; the correct side to stand on escalators at Sydney stations is on the left!

 

[Bungle73]

Was the teacher an Australian? Confused the heck out of me; the correct side to stand on escalators at Sydney stations is on the left!

No, it was a British party.