People on trains are awful

Sadly I think lots of people are just not taught basic manners and consideration for other people.

The feet on seats is something I noticed on my last train journey. A man took his shoes and socks off and put his feet on the seat opposite him. When has this ever been acceptable or normal behaviour!

I told someone who was using their phone on speaker on a train recently that none of us wanted to listen to his conversation and mimed the correct way to use a phone. He got stroppy and called me rude, ended his call then proceeded to watch tv with the speaker on. It's not an unusual occurrence sadly.

I had a 2 hour commute home from Birmingham on Monday. When I boarded and found my seat the man in the accompanying seat looked to have set up a travelling office. He was spread over both seats, had both tray tables down with laptop, phone, notebooks, papers, chargers etc, a water bottle and massive rucksack on my seat.

I greeted him with "hello, I've booked this seat, shall I move your bag for you?".

It took an age for him to gather everything together and put his rucksack on the luggage rack above our seats. He then spent the rest of the journey doing "performative" working and constantly nudging me whilst he juggled papers, notebooks, phone and laptop (seriously, every two minutes). I understand people wanting to work on their commute but they need to work within the space they have and ideally book a table seat.

As a positive note I was in London yesterday and went on the tube between Euston and Bank.
It was standing room only but 2 guys immediately asked if I would like their seat. At the 1st stop when people got off another guy (older than me) oferred me a seat before he sat down (I refused as only going 4 stops).
So I presumed
a) there are good men about
b) I look elderly
c) I look pregnant
🤣

On a long train journey a man was watching a football match loudly on his tablet. There is a special level of hell reserved for him.

Women painting their nails.

Men spritzing on half a bottle of cologne.

Drunk loud men.

People eating garlicky fish.

Fare dodgers who kick off and hold up the train when caught.

I don’t commute regularly any more, thank god, but one incident sticks in my mind.

I was standing in the middle of a crowded carriage and a young woman was sitting with her legs crossed. Her foot kept hitting my leg and it was really annoying so I leant down and said ‘please can you move your legs, your foot keeps hitting me’. She had headphones on so of course didn’t hear and I
had to repeat except I didn’t say please the second time though I was still polite. She actually said to me ‘say please’ in a really rude tone. So I just told her I’d already said please but she didn’t hear me. She then made a big deal of uncrossing her legs, only to recross them a minute later.

It just summed up everything I hate about other people and tube travel.

Was on a long train journey today and every passenger around me was fine. It was a quiet coach and there was one annoying giggling girl but that was it. Others have been less pleasant. X

@opalescented I didnt reply to you!

YANBU. Add to that I did a journey recently on the way there 1/3 trains cancelled. Same on the way back. The journey cost over £100. I did successfully apply for compo afterwards but the whole journey was incredibly stressful. We lost our seat reservations on the cancelled services, the ones afterwards were packed and after being directed to carriage C by the guard (as unreserved seating), there were several arguments where people claimed they had booked seats in that carriage.

If someone keeps sniffing near me I offer them some tissues 😂😂 it drives me mad

Definitely more entitled and selfish attitude now

I get you OP - hell is other people and all that. Unfortunately, a few scumbags seem to ruin it for everyone.

Why should it be up to the rest of us to wear earplugs/headphones to block out their shite? Surely the onus is on THEM.

People who should be banned from public transport :

anyone watching anything on their phone / tablet with the volume up without headphones

anyone who thinks their bag is more deserving of a seat than a human being especially if they tut when you dare to say ‘excuse me please’ to sit down.

anyone who takes phone calls in the ‘quiet carriage’

anyone who thinks their bike deserves to take up all the space in the aisle so no one can get past rather than using the bike compartment

anyone who doesn’t move from the disabled accessible area when a wheelchair user gets on and needs the space

anyone who thinks their toddler needs a seat on a full train when they could go on their parents laps (considering that under 5’s aren’t paying for a seat’ )

anyone who eats food with their mouth open and crunching like an animal or slurps loudly on milkshakes or coke…

anyone who is able bodied but doesn’t give a damn that the elderly gent, pregnant lady or disabled person with crutches and a guide dog may need a seat much more than they do - LOOK up from your phone and show a little humanity

anyone who sits in reserved seats on long distance trains that are not there’s - hello - reservations are free but you need to do them - not sit in the seats of those who have been bothered to be organised.

yes I am a regular commuter and yes these things drive me insane!!!!

People listening to films etc on their phones without headphones seems to me to have increased in the last year. I find it deeply annoying. The only thing that seems to block it out for me if I'm working on a train is putting white noise on my headphones. I probably am easily irritated and noise sensitive. I usually sit in the quiet carriage but invariably someone gets on who either doesn't realise or doesn't care.

What infuriates me is that the guards/staff on the train don't do anything about it. Surely it's their job to ask people to behave?

I was stuck on a delayed train to Edinburgh recently for hours with a group of men holding a party, with loud music and beer, which upset my child, who was very tired and trying to read or sleep. Some people asked the men to be quiet, but the men laughed.

I was on a train last year where a group of teenagers was holding a party in the aisle, so loud that we didn't hear an important announcement about a diversion and had to get another train, meaning a five hour delay. Guards did nothing shen I complained.

Why reply to me then? I suggest earplugs for the noise and you tell me that won't sort out feet on seats. Of course it wouldn't I'm not stupid.

Our journey back from Cornwall was largely ok. The only surly elements were grumpy trolley staff and some me random passengers who said we were in their seats, we weren’t

Christ I cant type tonight..things not thinks!!

There not their !