Ignorant train passengers

malkyh

munchpot wrote: »

Hope I'm not hijacking - but another thing that winds me up no end is (and I'm sorry for this ladies) women who spend the entire train journey applying their make up. Surely that's what you have mirrors for at home.
I always say, but never have the nerve to do it, that I'd like to take a bowl of water on the train and as the woman next to me starts applying her make up, I start to wet shave to see how she likes it
(I am a man by the way)

I dunno, there is something intriguing about watching a hacket looking bird become more attractive in front of your very eyes. Saves having to spend money on beer goggles.

As for the wet shave, all depends where you are shaving.....

angelil

I'm another one who'd rather have the extra 15 mins in bed than do my makeup at home. 7.20 a.m. is quite early enough to have to leave in the morning thank you!!

I've enjoyed the rest of the thread though

eminemfan001

It annoys me when people take up reserved seats that aren't theirs! Last time we traveled there was a woman in my seat and her bag was taking up my boyfriends seat. we pointed it out to her and she sat and argued with us even though we showed her the tickets proving they were our seats. Even the guy that takes the tickets agreed with us and she still argued saying we were wrong.

Also I hate being on the bus with noisy teenagers shouting at each other. You're sitting right next to each to each other why do you need to shout!

malkyh

Not sure how a simple smile morphed into me standing grinning at her. It's a funny old world.

Hope I find her this morning or the first old dear I see is copping it.

Azari

pimento wrote: »

Why not put the bag up there anyway? Are you playing the odds?

OK, baby steps for the hard of thinking:

1) The trains I catch are off peak and very empty.

2) It's unusual for me not to get a section of four seats to myself for the whole hour and a half.

3) I monitor the seating and as soon as there are no free groups of seats I move my bag.

4) No one has ever had to hover or ask for me to move my bag.

5) This is all very simple and second nature to grown ups of a considerate disposition.

I commute and will make a point of taking a seat with a bag on it even if there is somewhere else available to sit.

If you did that in a carriage with the level of emptiness at which I still have my bag on the seat you would look like a nutter! (Although I have done the same when on a more crowded train with very few seats available and someone is hogging one with a bag.)

I then enjoy listening to the person huff and puff as I put my iPod on very loud.

I wouldn't hear you as I have my MP3 player on. :cool:

Of course, I have ear buds that do not leak noise so that I don not annoy fellow passengers.

Most people perceive those who play music so that others have to put up with it as inconsiderate !!!!!!.

Pollycat

pimento wrote: »

Why not put the bag up there anyway? Are you playing the odds?

It's not 'playing the odds' at all.

It's about being proactively considerate to any passengers who get on the train or bus after you and are looking for a seat.

The bottom line is that the passenger the OP mentions wasn't proactively or even reactively considerate.

pimento wrote: »

I commute and will make a point of taking a seat with a bag on it even if there is somewhere else available to sit. I then enjoy listening to the person huff and puff as I put my iPod on very loud.

What a lovely person you sound.

But, even so, if you end up sitting next to me in a carriage that's totally empty apart from me and my bag on the seat, you won't hear me 'huff and puff'.

I'll just smile inwardly at what a total !!!!!! you are - and I may just tap you on the shoulder and request politely that you turn your musci down.

And if you don't?

Well, let's just see what might occur in that nice little scenario you mention if it ever happens.
And, trust me, it won't be me 'huffing and puffing' - because deliberately turning music up loud just to make a point that you feel needs to be made is plain damned rude.

Pollycat

Azari
I feel you, me and the OP are flogging a dead horse.

Some people just don't get it.

WatlingA5

barbiedoll wrote: »

... Then she proceeded to dig into my ribs with her elbows whilst she applied the rest of her slap.

A well timed nudge to her elbow as it jabbed you could have led to a much more interesting finish to her make-up....

NBLondon

OK - a confession. On a long-distance train trip when I'm working I will leave my laptop bag on the next seat if available rather than be continually up and down to get things out of it. Or my suit jacket since the seat is going to be somewhat cleaner than the rack.

If the train starts getting full then I'll rethink.

On a commuter train, I wouldn't bother trying to get the laptop out since it's standing room only by the time I get on anyway.

And before you ask - no I don't sprawl over the whole table (if I've got a table seat).

shandyclover

I find it frustrating when people pile the luggage rack next to the doors full of small bags they could actually keep on the overhead racks or on their laps. I got on a train after coming back from an international flight. Had only an carryon size suitcase but could not fit it properly in the luggage area without rearranging other peoples belongings, which I did not want to do, so I had to stay stood next to the luggage area holding my suitcase prevcariously balanced the entire journey with understandibly annoyed people having to push past me. In retrospect perhaps I should've just sat in my reserved seat with my suitcase on my lap.