A moany chat for those who commute daily in busy cities.

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This is lighthearted, hence not an AIBU as I am fully aware nobody is doing anything wrong and we all have a different pace in life. But this is a moany thread for those who do the same journey day in day out and to vent all those little things that in your rush hour stressed morning / afternoon really piss in your cornflakes.

I have a list 😂

I do the same journey twice a day - it’s autopilot at this point, everything is calculated on my route, even to the ticket barrier I use and the exact spot I stand in on the tube platform.

So here it goes:

• the obvious not keeping left
• getting off the escalator and immediately stopping just by the steps to tie your shoe laces / adjust your bag
• people walking in pairs or groups through stations joined at the hip - just let other people pass
• People with massive luggage on the escalators
• people stopping in the middle of a busy walkway as you’re walking at full pace behind them

I’m sure I have many more I’ll remember as we go along. Share yours!

People on a busy tube/train/bus not taking their backpacks off! I'm so sick of being whacked in the face by some idiot who doesn't realise how big their bag is

It’s the backpacks & the turning without realising you are taking everyone with you. Take the damn thing off!

People getting to the barrier and then starting to look for their ticket/card 🙄

People playing music or reels on their phones without headsets. Endemic.

Selfish people not moving down in the carriages to make more space near the doors.
People who don't get up so people who are less able to stand can sit down.
People who don't automatically offer to help with luggage/buggies, assuming they physically can and there's someone struggling.

Yes this!! And also putting a massive suitcase on the seat next to you in rush hour? Why would you do this

Phone calls on speaker phone.

People standing on the left on the escalator AND people who walk down very slowly. If you’re not in any hurry, move to the right & leave the left for the rest of us.

People, especially in tube stations where the corridors aren’t that wide, who walk along slowly staring at their phones when there’s no room for other people to pass them. If you have to check your phone wait until you can move out of the way.

Tourists who catch the Piccadilly line to & from Heathrow during rush hour & take up extra seats & half the aisle with their bloody big cases. Often, when I politely ask to sit in one of the seats they’re blocking, they suddenly find it’s possible to rearrange them if they squeeze in a bit & put something on their lap.

People who go through the barriers and then stop dead.
People who walk right across the flow of people moving and so everyone has to stop.
The chuggers who try to stop me every morning.
The freezing rain that I have to walk through every morning so far this year between the station and my workplace.

@EmpressaurusKitty I get the Piccadilly line!! It is actual hell with all the tourists with half their lives in massive suitcases!

Most of your list applies to rural locations too, not just city commuters. I walk daily to/from work along our canal footpath. Always several annoying people who are completely oblivious, i.e. walking 2/3 abreast blocking the path meaning you have to walk in the slippy verge to get past them. Dog walkers oblivious to their dogs either off the lead or on those stupid extendable leads randomly tripping people up. People stopping randomly with no notice on the narrow steps to/from the road to look at their phones, re-arrange their hat, finally attach the dog lead, etc. Massive groups of ramblers taking up the entire footpath often 3/4 abreast somehow thinking you're going to teleport yourself out of their way so they don't have to go into narrower formation. Then in the village shop and post office, people stopping and blocking the doorways, etc. I think it's just inconsiderate/oblivious people everywhere not just cities!

On my commute home tonight I realised my new annoyance is 'slow walking middle aged man'. Has maybe a roka backpack, chinos, moving at a casual pace, carefully positioned to block routes around them, clearly has no DC bedtime to get back for, can saunter home at their leisure.

I'm also on the Piccadilly line. The escalators are out at the moment and how it absolutely confuddles people who walk onto them and just stop. Then realise they actually have to move their own body so they step forward and proceed down like Mrs Doyle falling off the windowsill on Father Ted.

People who appear to have never set foot on a tube or train before, get on it and then block the aisle looking left and right and dithering. In the meantime, other people have got on through the other doors and taken all the seats. Usually, they eventually move and get the last seat, leaving me have to stand up.

And, on a completely personal level, a man who gets on my train every morning with a foldable bike. He pushes his way on, only to stand right by the doors and block everyone’s way. Very annoying!

I get the Piccadilly line!! It is actual hell with all the tourists with half their lives in massive suitcases!

When a carriage is half full & I ask to sit in the seat blocked by their cases, I see it as a public service because it leaves the easy-access seats free.

If it annoys them that’s a bonus.

Yeah this is my major irritation. It used to be mostly confined to teenager wannabe gangsta twats trying to be edgy but now it seems everyone is incapable of using headphones.

Who is commuting daily in 2026?! There's your problem right there! (assuming office job etc blah blah blah).

I have to go in 2-3 days a week. I would say the tube is back to pre-pandemic levels and that's on Mondays and Fridays which excludes the TWaTs (best acronym ever)

Kings X????

Not an office job!

Crickey you need to move up North.
I commute daily on Manchester tram network and everyone is pretty chilled and accomodating of each other.

We even smile at strangers!😃

My pet annoyance is when you're waiting on the tube platform at the doors, they open, then people casually stroll out really slowly, all the time in the world, looking left and right whislt standing blocking the door so you can't get on. Sometimes they're still just starting to get out of their seats when we start getting on! Then everyone says "ooh, I hate people that don't wait for you to get off the train before they get on"
We can't wait! The train won't! Get a move on! pfff

The sheer fact that it takes up to 90 minutes to go 6 miles on the bus... If I wasn't so lazy tired I could walk it in that. If only cities besides London had an underground.

Sometimes I get irritated when it’s 15 minutes until the next bus or 10 to the next tube. Then I remember that where my sister used to live, there was one bus an hour into town.

As the Guarsian would say that's 'laptop privilege'.