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  • grayme-m
    grayme-m Posts: 1,484 Forumite
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    Just had a brand new one.

    I got on this train and there is a bank of for seats around a table, two people sit diagonally in two seats. The one in the aisle seat has nothing on his feet; I kept walking down the train, just didn't fancy sitting opposite him.
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  • VT82
    VT82 Posts: 1,085 Forumite
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    edited 28 March 2012 at 8:11AM
    I've read this whole thread on the train from Brum to London (first time in a while). And 5 minutes after finishing it, something happened which meant I HAD to come back on to add something.

    As I type, there is someone sat ON the table in front of my seat, with his legs dangling in the aisle! And he even put his bag on the table behind him! Lol :rotfl:
  • I have commuted by train daily for years, I have seen it all.

    However I got my own comeuppance last weekend on a long train journey up the country to visit family - I had my small suitcase (you know the hand luggage in cheap airlines small) next to me on the seat. When the train started to fill up I was shuffling my items around fairly innefectually when a gentleman asked if he could move my bag for me so he could sit down. Of course, I replied, to which he proceeded to cram my case on the above rail, when I got to my destination I realised how hard he had crammed it in as the screen on my Kindle was split.

    Serves myself right.
  • bargainbetty
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    I always move my bag, never nick someone else's reserved seat and don't play my ipod too loudly.

    However..... when I take a seat, only to find a young man sitting with his legs widely splayed out to the point where he is interfering with the leg room of others for his own 'comfort', I will always politely ask them to move their legs.

    One chap was sitting in the corner of a four-seat arrangement, with two ladies opposite who were fighting his knees for space. I took the seat next to him, and asked him to move his leg from my seat so I could use the whole seat. He grudgingly moved his leg a couple of inches, but was still across my seat. I asked him again, politely, to move up. This time he grumbled under his breath and called me a name. I very loudly advised him that I doubted 'it' was that big, so I didn't see why he couldn't sit with his legs closer together.

    The other ladies were giggling all the way home, but we all had our leg room back.
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  • Evilm
    Evilm Posts: 1,950 Forumite
    edited 28 March 2012 at 5:11PM
    Ok after today I have to add this one for general comment as well as trains: Please don't try to kill me with perfume! I don't mind if you wear it but when I can smell it like the full bottle broke right in front of me when you are sitting at the other end of the train carriage I do mind!

    Moved carriages as soon as I realised but it was too late...
  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    Evilm wrote: »
    Ok after today I have to add this one for general comment as well as trains: Please don't try to kill me with perfume! I don't mind if you wear it but when I can smell it like the full bottle broke right in front of me when you are sitting at the other end of the train carriage I do mind!

    Moved carriages as soon as I realised but it was too late...

    I carry a little perfume spray which I find useful when I am sitting in close proximity to someone who doesn't seem to understand the need for soap and water. I squirt a bit on my inner wrist and breathe that instead of the surrounding pong! Also useful when near to smokers whose clothes reek.
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • angelil
    angelil Posts: 1,001 Forumite
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    Nobody's fault obviously, but I hate when you get onto a packed commuter train, have to stand for half an hour plus, nobody seems to get off, and then...MASS EXODUS at one destination...by which time the available seats are barely worth having. Always the same bloody station this happens at :mad:
  • Evilm
    Evilm Posts: 1,950 Forumite
    Bogof_Babe wrote: »
    I carry a little perfume spray which I find useful when I am sitting in close proximity to someone who doesn't seem to understand the need for soap and water. I squirt a bit on my inner wrist and breathe that instead of the surrounding pong! Also useful when near to smokers whose clothes reek.

    That I don't mind... its literally when it seems like the whole bottle was applied in one go!
  • mysk_girl
    mysk_girl Posts: 804 Forumite
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    Well, I'm off to see granny again with the kids this weekend, due to the panicking about fuel strikes I'm expecting all the trains to be very full, so we'll see if I have to fight for my reserved seats! I've got 2 table seats on a 5pm train from a commuter station tomorrow evening, so we'll see...
  • WatlingA5
    WatlingA5 Posts: 168 Forumite
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    mysk_girl wrote: »
    Well, I'm off to see granny again with the kids this weekend, due to the panicking about fuel strikes I'm expecting all the trains to be very full, so we'll see if I have to fight for my reserved seats! I've got 2 table seats on a 5pm train from a commuter station tomorrow evening, so we'll see...
    So.... do let us know how it went :)
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