Man on train

[Apolloanddaphne]

So I am on a train. Sitting across the aisle is a chap who has obviously come off the rigs and is well oiled.

Conversation so far:
He is paying £250per week in CM and feel this I bare faced cheek form his ex. I mean ' how hard can it be when she is getting so the benefits too'.

His 'lass' won't mind when he arrives home drunk. In fact she will expect it and be glad to see him.

He was drinking little cans gin and tonic but is about to start on the whisky. This is not going to go well.

Thankfully he not being noisy or belligerent. What else is he going to discus do we think? I am only listening in. He isn't talking to me.

He has had a hard life apparently. But no details.

And it is healthy be away for three weeks to miss your loved ones.

There is a student trying to read in the seat next to him and she is getting no peace!

Yes let’s have a man bashing thread based on some guys life that you know nothing about other than one snippet from a phone conversation.🙄

I don't think his girlfriend is going to be as thrilled as he believes that he's completely pissed at lunchtime on a weekday.

He got up as the train went round a corner and I got his arse in my face!

I'm not being critical. I am rather amused. MN used to love a little earwig into the lives of other people. What has happened?

Apologies if no malice intended.

I'm getting off soon. Shame as I was just getting to know Mike!

I love a good earwig, is he in the phone or trying to talk to the poor lass next to him.
TBF if he does work on rigs he is entitled to have one over the 8 as long as he doesn't become a pest , it is hard dangouse work and without the men and women that work on them we would have no fuel .

He is talking to his table mates. He is being very respectful whilst still talking shite to the student.

I don't grudge him his drinks at all. I've had my fair share of train drinks!

His mate lost his jacket and the whole carriage is giggling at his attempts to find it. He has located it now.

This is why I wear headphones at all times on public transport.

I bet he'd be thrilled to know that someone is repeating his conversations verbatim to people on an internet forum in real time. Nice.

When you said he had come off the rigs and was well oiled I thought you meant he was covered in oil.

Is it an Aberdeen going south train (oil rigs usually fly everyone back to Aberdeen?)

They’re usually a cracker of a journey on a Friday although I thought they’d made a lot of those routes dry trains now ... at one point they were employing security to weed out drunk people/ remove alcohol from passengers on boarding !

Bunch of humourless bastards. Again, mumsnet has changed.

I don't think his girlfriend is going to be as thrilled as he believes that he's completely pissed at lunchtime on a weekday.

She’s dating a rigger. It won’t come as any shock to her, part of the culture.

i used date a guy working on rigs, he was on a three month on one mnoth off routine, and yes first thing they did after getting the helicopter out of there and heading towards the airport was start drinking (unless they were in saudi or scandanavia) as having none for 3 months just two drinks usually had them two sheets to the wind. They had to make sure not to have too much to drink as airport might refuse to take them, i was used to him showing up with a xtra large pizza(another thing he missed) a bottle of wine and a tray of beer, and then falling asleep. Then taxi driver would arrive with his luggage he left in car or something else he forgot.

When you said he had come off the rigs and was well oiled I thought you meant he was covered in oil.

Is that not what OP meant?

I would have loved to be there, listening to all his tales etc. Some people on transport these days,are all po faced,and only want to be on phones and all the rest, and have lost the ability,to listen to all the nitty gritty stuff that down to earth people talk about. So usually,nobody cares anymore.

Can you get involved OP & we can give you questions to ask him?

When you said he had come off the rigs and was well oiled I thought you meant he was covered in oil.

You are not alone...

Ask him if his da sells Avon!

@changedname3243 Friday is often crew change for service companies - main crew normally get the better changes earlier in the week.

I used to have a love/hate relationship with a Friday crew change; it was cracking to just get home and get on it! But not good on the wallet or for the sore heads. I’d always be better behaved coming home earlier in the week 😂

Other people’s conversations are fascinating and horrifying in equal measure sometimes.

I speak another language. One day a woman got on the train the stop after mine and was having a very loud phone conversation in said language. It was clear she was having a heated row probably with her husband, accusing him of being a waster, of how by the time she got home he would be asleep, how they never had sex any more, the kind of conversation you would only have on public transport if you believed no-one could understand you. Except I understood every word