to complain about Londoners?

[NearlyMrsCustardsHardHat]

I have just gone from brixton to Liverpool street in tears and with a very heavy limp. I am in agony right now and not one person has stopped to ask if im ok.

Considering the time (midnight) if you saw a woman limping through the tube network in tears would you stop her and ask if she's ok? Or aibu to think someone might have helped me?

disclaimer: i met people at both ends of the journey so am home fine just pissed off at how people will just walk past someone in such obvious difficulty. Aibu to be disgusted by it?

Oh! I used to thank the driver when I was in my twenties....and I still do. Must have been an OAP before my time then! Seems more commonplace among certain towns or villages. I wouldn't do it if it was a crowded bus though - the driver wouldn't be able to hear it. They always smile or wave in reply. I think it's a nice little interaction. Shows that we are humans who live in a community and not just self propelled robots.....-

That's the thing see

Where I am, they're all crowded double deckers

It does make me smile though when I hear them bellow down the bus!

On our buses we just have one door so you pass the driver getting off too so you can say thanks or have a bit chat while
You wait to get off the bus

Aware might not be as time efficient
At the London method but it is
So much nicer getting on a bus in other places lol

Just to say that I lived in London and met some very good friends, I think that if one of us had seen you we would have helped you.

I haven't read the entire long thread, but I do think YABU to lump all Londoners together based on one very small snapshot.

I am a Londoner, and have had a variety of experiences on the tube when I needed help. I find that with a baby people are usually quite helpful.

I'm sorry you were in pain and hope you feel better, but on a Friday night in my mind weeping woman on public transport having difficulty walking I would probably think 'pissed, steer well clear.'

kayano was the purpose of your post a desperate attempt to rile Londoners because we have been overwhelmingly lovely on this thread?

If so, it's failed. You are excused because you are probably feeling insecure at learning that people from the North East don't have the monopoly on being warm and caring.

BTW I always greet bus drivers on the way in. Sometimes they look a bit startled

i also always say thank you to the bus driver - but then again i'm from west London, and we are much nicer than the other cunts Londoners.

Why didn't you take a cab?

OP, hope you are feeling better now, can fully empathise with your need to rant, even though you were of course BU and know in yourself that you should have taken a cab. Incidentally, if there was anyone else in your office late with you and they did not insist on calling you a cab, THAT is the cunt right there.

Like many other posters, am not sure what you wanted others to do for you. My default reaction to someone crying would be to give them privacy by NOT approaching them as I'd assume they were embarrassed about not being able to hold it in. And really, what can a stranger actually do to help?

( That said, Sophie Dahl was model scouted by a top agent who happened to see her weeping on a doorstep in Bond Street after a tiff with her mother, so if you are very beautiful OP, I suggest you do all your crying in W London from now on )

As for the limp, as long as you were actually walking and not collapsed in a heap I'd assume that you had a disability that looked bad but was not an impediment to your independence, and feel that it would be patronising and rude to comment on it.

As to the general manners of Londoners on the tube, I now live in Hong Kong after 12 years in London and cannot tell you how much I miss people standing to the right on escalators and allowing passengers to exit the train before they board. Here, people barge straight on and do not seem even to SEE people trying to get off, despite public announcements in 3 languages and big red arrows on the platform telling them not to do it! The only people I ever saw do that in London were Italian teenagers on school trips, whereas the "stand back" commuter ballet on the rush hour tube is a delight to behold.