to hate every single parent and child crowding up South Kensington during half term?!

[misspantomime]

I work in the area and every single evening during every single school holiday it takes me 30 minutes more to get home because a) I cannot walk down the streets as they are too crowded and (b) I cannot get into South Ken station due to crowding and also due to parents letting their kids walk down the road either on scooters or at 0.00000000005 MPH and also not knowing how to use the ticket barriers properly.

I am a Londoner and we are notoriously intolerant of people who can't use the underground properly but even so I never truly knew rage until I started working round here. There are queues all the way down the road. For the fricking science museum.

Miss - if you're an occasional visitor, you won't necessarily have an Oyster card. I don't have one, for good reason! (I live just 40 mins away, and have no desire to visit that unfriendly City any time soon).

If you don't like the setup, then perhaps you should find somewhere else to work.

You do sound like a complete misery-guts. Sorry, but you do.

i cant find it. It was along the lines of ' why do mums going to london dress like wankers"

you can imagine it was about as popular as yours

you're a beaut

go on, give us a smile. as you carry your 25 kg slow 6yr old up the escalators?

YABU, but i like you

EvansOvalPies get an oyster card even if you come for only one day, it'll save you money and it's much easier.

I commuted into London yesterday and wondered the following:

Who the fuck are these people who think it's a good idea to take children on the 7.58am train into London?

What the fuck are in the massive rucksacks each child and parent seems obliged to wear?

Why you would bring the grandparents and then push past them to get yourself and your offspring a seat? He's 7 he can stand and you're about 42 and definitely bloody stand while I catch your aged dad as you knock him off his feet to sit down.

Do you lose the ability to read once you step onto the escalator? Stand on the right people, it's labelled, it's announced and the queue of impatient people muttering behind you is a further queue.

Why anyone would think stopping at the top of the escalator is a good idea? Especially to gather your party of NeverBeenToLondoners together

Why anyone would think it's a good idea to have a fucking chat/collect your party together/start looking for your ticket at the ticket barrier?!

Yanbu op. They shouldn't be allowed to travel before 9am or after 4pm unless they have passed the London Proficiency Test.

You don't need any oyster card anymore. You can just use a contactless credit or debit card. You get the same benefits.

MovingOnUpMovingOnOut Thank you! Agree with everything you have just said!

YANBU.

I also hate the parents and children who go swimming at my leisure club at 7am during half term when us pre-work swimmers are trying to get some exercise done.

I also hate parents and children on the 7.45am commuter train. They take up too much room, their children are too loud and they don't understand basic rules of commuting. Just fucking wait an hour until people who actually have somewhere to fucking be have gotten where they need to go. Bastards.

I used to work on the Champs Elysees in my 20s. Imagine how annoying that was. Not possible to get anywhere in a hurry.

I do kind of agree iwth moving

yes i do. Gimme the badge

Moving and miss I don't work in London but am a commuter to a large city and I agree with everything you both say. In fact I think I love you both a little bit

Ooooh - I'm itching to respond, but I suspect pleasedon't is playing Devil's Advocate. (Please let it be so)

pleasedontflameme120 aw yay. let's start a misery guts thread

let's start a misery guts thread

Miss - you all need your own little town.

YANBU about scooters on pavements. I live in a village on the edge of a country town, so about as far from London as you can get in terms of busy-ness but those fucking things drive me mad. The number of time you end up in the road because of a whole family with schooters.....

However, YABU about it being busy. Its how it is. H works much closer to home now, but it used to take almost three times as long for him to get to work in term time than it did during the holidays because of the school run traffic. Its the same problem, in reverse and just part of life. You cant change what other people do, so make changes yourself that minimise its effects. See if you can start work earlier or later and change your finish time correspondingly. Or travel via a different tube station and then the bus.....

    God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
    The courage to change the things I can,
    And the wisdom to know the difference.

'let's start a misery guts thread'

i thought this was it, there's more?

EvansOvalPiesYumYum do you always react this way when someone expresses an opinion you don't agree with?

OP. Please do not come to Devon ( or Cornwall) in the school holidays. It really pisses us locals off when our normal 25 min commute becomes 45 owing to the number of tourists and caravans on the road. You piss us off when you all decide yo head for the beach at 9.30 am and we can't find a car parking space when we come down after work. You cheese us off by parking in farm gate ways and leaving gates open. Or by picnicking in the middle of the village green and abandoning your disposable BBQ in the stream.
Dear OP, London does not have a monopoly on anoying visitors who leave their brains at home because they are on holiday.

I used to work next to the science museum and hated it. The sad thing is now I have children they have only visited the South Ken museums on school trips we attempted it once and it was just horrendous, I don't think it was quite so bad when I worked there 20 years ago.

Goodbyetoallthat

you used to LIVE on Exhibition Road??

you jammy get

what were you, Embassy staff, or Mormons?

go on tell doooooo

I won't tell a soul

I'm going to take my toddler for the next week to london to hawk him up and down. He can walk slowly next to me holding my hand while i try to ram as many high heel suit wearing intolerent types as possible with my enourmous buggy. We will travel at peak time at a cost of 5000 per ticket, we wont get a seat and arseholes will huff and puff at me. I WILL be oblivious to this. I will not give two shits about the fact I cant get myself through a barrier in any amount of time under 10 seconds. (tic)

The reason I wont give a shit is because i CHOOSE to live in a beautiful country village. I do not have over inflated opinions of myself. I tolerate other people and generally their children. I have both space and time to enjoy days out with my children.

YOU OP and your ranty replies to absolutly everyone on here show you have vitually no tolerance of other people. YOU'RE ALIVE BUT YOU AIN'T LIVING!

Why not take a day off yourself, take your poor harried child out for the day and relax.

There are few joys in life, one of them is a busy street on a sunny day holding a tiny hand in yours and a lovely day out. You are missing out.

Evans No, not playing devil's advocate at all

Cheers Cub

Cubtrouble, I rather think you're the one with the overinflated opinion of yourself.

I do take days off and relax with my DS thanks, we just don't relax at the natural history museum during half term.

UniS I never said city dwellers had a monopoly on annoying tourists, I'm sure it's just as annoying for you and I sympathise. My grandmother lives in Torquay so I do get it!!!

Also - I never wear a suit or high heels, so good luck ramming your buggy into me.