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Original poster

AIBU to think there is no place for a mouse on a train!!!

62 replies

afromom · 05/02/2016 11:12

So I'm having the journey from hell today...
The motorway is closed along part of my journey to a work meeting today, so I thought I'd catch the train. Unfortunately there was also an accident in my local area so I couldn't get to the train station on time. So off I set in the car. Of course there are huge delays so I decided to drive half way then catch a train.
I successfully get on the train, to find out it takes 1 hour to get to my destination as it stops at every bloody station in the back of beyond (original train from home town would have taken 50 minutes!)
I made peace with my long journey, bagged myself a lovely unoccupied 4 seat area, most of the carriage was empty. What should happen but the smelliest tramp of a man gets on, sits across the isle from me and proceeds to get a bloody mouse out of his pocket and asked if I would like to stroke it!!!!
I have a huge phobia of rodents so I squeaked my disgust, grabbed my copious bags and dashed to the other end of the carriage.
AIBU to think I should speak to the guard and get him chucked off at the next station???

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MadameDePompom · 05/02/2016 13:00

Okay, not so lovely if he's kidnapping them from their nests.

BlueRaptor · 05/02/2016 13:02

Oh I like squirrel man lots!

AlpacaPicnic · 05/02/2016 13:04

A dodgy looking bloke once asked me if I wanted to see the monkey in his pocket... I was all ready to call for help but then he produced a teeny weeny fluffy monkey! Like a capuchin I think! It was so cute, he was rearing it because it had been rejected by its mummy monkey.

Let the mouse be...

RedOnHerHedd · 05/02/2016 13:05

Poor man. That mouse may be the only bit of love that he has in his life and you describe him like that. Good job we're not all the same.

Focusfocus · 05/02/2016 13:11

You lost me when you said tramp.

HTH

Quoteunquote · 05/02/2016 13:25

the smelliest tramp of a man

I wonder if the mouse was called Karma.

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 05/02/2016 13:28

You can take small animals on trains. You can even take dogs, on most trains (some are excluded at peak times).

I take my hedgehog all the time. The guard would come say hi, but he wouldn't kick me off. Or the mouse man.

You also can't get mouse man kicked off for smelling, or not living up to your ideals. If you don't like mice and you're having a bad day, move.

Trickydecision · 05/02/2016 13:29

It is not OK be Mousist on MN.

I am surprised MNHQ have not deleted your thread.

Original poster
afromom · 05/02/2016 13:46

Ok I completely agree my description of the man was out of order, I think it was in my general for of panic (completely irrational agreed) that I was venting and it all came out completely wrong!

I hadn't ever seen a pet on the train before, don't travel on them very often.

I concede IWBU. I will embrace the mice in the future and just make a respectful exit to the other end of the train next time Smile

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Paddletonio · 05/02/2016 13:52

Yanbu

Sounds horrendous, dirty and just wrong!

hefzi · 05/02/2016 14:12

Someone took a pig on the underground the other day...

Crazypetlady · 05/02/2016 14:39

I would have loved to have seen a pig on the tube, when I win the lottery I'm getting myself a pig.

Lweji · 05/02/2016 14:42

What trains are you people travelling in?

I have never seen any animals apart from primates and dogs. Ok, maybe a cat occasionally.

SistersOfPercy · 05/02/2016 14:47

My friend has a ferret she walks, the leather jacket thing is a harness. Don't think ferret has tried train travel yet but who knows what the future holds!

Lweji · 05/02/2016 14:48

On a previous thread it was uncovered that there are quite a few MNers who have pet ferrets. There was talk of an actual forum for them.

Artandco · 05/02/2016 14:51

There's a family with two pet pigs near my parents. The local council has given them a pig route map they can walk the pigs on, as they aren't allowed to be walked any old place apparently due to livestock restrictions ( or something along those lines)

Roonerspism · 05/02/2016 14:52

I love this thread! It has made my day.

We need more people like mouse man in the world

VeryBitchyRestingFace · 05/02/2016 14:53

Mice don't have a sphincter in their bladder, so they dribble urine constantly, that's probably why the poor chap was a bit smelly.

Wow. Pub quiz question right there.

I would probably have stroked mousey. Blush

originalmavis · 05/02/2016 14:59

I Iove to see the wee mousies on the tube lines. I didn't Iove the ones in my old office who would attend client meetings and run up the curtains.

Original poster
afromom · 05/02/2016 15:33

A pig on the tube - now I would like to see that! Grin

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Owllady · 05/02/2016 15:36

One of my old friends used to take his pet rat with everywhere

Janeymoo50 · 05/02/2016 15:39

Was the mouse on his way to the mouse circus and was he called Mr Jangles?

hiddenhome2 · 05/02/2016 15:45

That squirrel looks like it's trying to kill that man Shock did you see him head for the jugular?

originalmavis · 05/02/2016 16:11

Squirrels are bad tempered little fekkers.

expatinscotland · 05/02/2016 16:15

Squirrels are rabid bastards. So are chipmunks, the little fuckers.

I'm desperate for a baby Syrian hamster, though.