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While sitting on the tube

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MyBlueFinch · 01/05/2026 09:31

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

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SorryWeAreClosed · 01/05/2026 19:29

We were on the little steam train from Whitby to Pickering when to my horror a mother and grandmother discovered their children had headlice and ostentatiously searched all their hair.

Globules · 02/05/2026 08:48

dizzydizzydizzy · 01/05/2026 13:31

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

Lucky it was on a lead then.

A troop of Morris dancers jingling as they got on and during every shake of the carriage had a few of us in the carriage stifling giggles.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 02/05/2026 08:53

I thoroughly enjoyed watching people on the tube trying to look at my Danish girl guides' uniforms and badges without being seen to be looking. Makes me smile every time I think about it.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 02/05/2026 08:55

A one-legged bloke sitting opposite me, wanking all over my new shoes.

He’d been trying to chat me up, so eventually I’d pretended to nod off, and woke - just as we were pulling into the station where I was getting off - to find this delightful state of affairs.

Offherrockingchair · 02/05/2026 09:08

Yet another thread highlighting the depravity of the male.

benten54 · 02/05/2026 09:44

Late night packed tube south through central London. The whole of the London Gay Male Voice Choir got on and sang Stand By Your Man in close harmony. It was bloody brilliant and they got a rapturous reception.

benten54 · 02/05/2026 09:57

A man in full extravagant military regalia with a MASSIVE sword. No one batted an eye

Two men dressed as Cybermen. No one batted an eye.

I bought an ironing board and had to get it home so took it on the tube. I mean how else would I get it home? totally normal thing to do surely. Cue eleventy million quips ‘going surfing are you’? People staring. Totally incredulous as if I’d taken my ironing board on a little outing on the Northern Line. It was ridiculous!

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 02/05/2026 10:04

I travelled on the tube for years when younger commuting and socialising. The most I ever saw were Roma pickpockets/beggars with accordions. Maybe I was just blind to the rest.

FettchYeSandbagges · 02/05/2026 18:17

Last year I saw a group of people dressed as Minions walking through one of the passageways between Kings Cross & St Pancras underground stations.

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