While sitting on the tube

[MyBlueFinch]

What have you observed while sitting on the tube.
I have seen people applying full make up, a mother using her saliva to wipe her child's face, a large dog sitting upright on a seat, back pack placed on a seat etc

I hate the thought of a shitty dog’s arse on the seat. How bloody disgusting. It’s bad enough that they’re allowed in the carriage with dog dander flying everywhere. Yuck.

Maybe it was the REAL one?!

A man with a coke bottle (one of the large plastic ones) full of bees. He then started to show it to me. I was sitting next to my kids and I calmly whispered to them that we would get off at the next stop.

A guy sitting opposite me who got his tiny dog out of a carrier and had it on the seat next to his. It did a huge wee. He realised and again, calmly got off at the next stop with no attempt to sort it out at all!

I’ve never noticed much of a smell from my own make up, let alone other people’s - do I just have a poor sense of smell? Nail polish on the other hand… not ok in a confined area.

A fox got on at East Finchley and off at Euston, I've always wondered where it was going.

Ok, thanks for clarifying 👍

All of the examples on here are just typical of the type of person that uses public transport.
😉😁.

A gigantic rabbit on a lead. The biggest rabbit I have even seen in my life.

What even the flashers?

Northern Line, after-work commuting time. Man got on with black bin bag full of something. He announced to the carriage "I've got a load of cheap chickens to sell! Anybody want a chicken? They're really good - here, have a look!" while shoving the open bin bag under several passengers' noses.

Nobody looked down into the bag.

None of those things would bother me in the slightest. In terms of hygiene the dog would probably bother me less than some other passengers.

One thing I saw that just made me smile was a couple with a giant real Christmas tree carrying it between them on and off the tube.

The OP didn’t mention flashers.

Someone praying with prayer mat in the space between the doors. This was about 40 years ago.

I've also seen someone with their hair trapped in the doors. It was a man and he didn't have long hair so I can only assume it bloody hurt. He didn't flinch or say a word.

I was on the tube once talking on the phone, appropriately quietly, when a quite well-spoken and fairly-presentable beggar came on. He gave his little speech which concluded (“…would anyone please help me?”) at the exact same time that whoever I was talking to asked me some outrageous question.

I blurted out a very loud “No!” right into the moment of awkward silence, and loads of people laughed. The timing was immaculate but I felt absolutely terrible!

Edgware Road - he walked to Euston Square tube station from there

I used to live in London and those things all sound really normal !!!

I don’t think I’d even look up from my book for most of these.

You did used to see a lot more people moving house on the tube, before the advent of cheap Ubers. There would be people on there with velvet armchairs, lamps, coffee tables, the lot. That was always quite funny. I kinda miss it.

Was it looking for a pigeon, maybe?😂

I saw a guy moving a sex chair once. A horrible-looking goth guy, with this inquisition-looking chair with straps all over it, travelling south from Earl’s Court. He was talking away about it to the two girls he was with like it was totally normal.

Oooh - nearly forgot!!

We once saw Street Cat Bob and his owner employee on the tube.

A dead body. Not me but a woman I worked with years ago.

I travel by tube most days and see alls of these regularly. Normal.

I was about 10 staying with my aunt in Ealing. Got on the tube and a lady was getting on with twins.
She put the first one on and the doors closed leaving the other on the platform. They looked about 3 years old.
I always wondered what happened.

A pigeon.

Quite frequently on the eastern end of the jubilee line