To ask whats the most annoying thing on public transport

[Dancingfairy]

I'm currently sat on a bus and someone is sitting behind me humming loudly, and hasn't stopped for the whole journey. It's so annoying as the seats are closed it feels like they are just humming in my ear!! Ok not the most annoying but it's up there. What annoying things do you hate about public transport??

People.

Man spreading. Fuck off with your fucking wide spread legs with you knee pressing against mine, your balls are not so fucking big they need to be displayed/aired like that.

People on the FUCKING PHONE

People who are only going a short distance who choose to sit at the back or top deck when the rest of the bus is empty and then have to fight their way out barging into the poor sods who've got on after them and had to stand.

If you're not going far, sit at the front FFS and let the ones who are staying on the longest go to the back.

Normally noise (playing loud music, yelling down the phone) and smell (eating fried food in an enclosed tube carriage).

I had the strangest experience yesterday though - I was going to start a thread but thought I'd be universally told iabu so didn't bother. I'm 6mos pregnant and look about 8mos pregnant. Had on a big fluffy coat with the badge prominently displayed. Got on busy tube, no seats, fine I can stand for a couple of stops it'll empty out.

One lady sat in the priority seat is absorbed in her book - happens. And if I'm tired or feeling ill I sometimes ask if they mind moving but I was okay so didn't. Opposite her in the other priority seat is a middle aged woman who has clearly seen me, has a cats bum face on and proceeds to pull out her sandwich to eat it while watching me. Strange! Woman next to her spots me, offers seat, lost in book lady realises then and jumps up as well to give me seat, I sit down. Sandwich lady continues to stare with annoyed face.

Next stop another pregnant woman gets on and sandwich lady makes a big fuss about giving her a seat (she doesn't want one and says so), repeatedly offering etc.

Still can't figure out why. Did she think I wasn't pregnant enough or deserving enough? Other pregnant lady more petite than me so prominent bump, but honestly at this stage literally no one can think it's far not pregnant + I had badge. Maybe she felt I was less further along and didn't deserve a seat?

Fwiw cats bum face lady was white but both of us pregnant women are BAME so not a racist thing I think.

So to answer OP - people who behave strangely on public transport!

People with wheeled shopping trollies the size of prams who insist on taking up three seats each.

Also yesterday I and all the other women on a bus got yelled at by a drunk man who kept telling us all to "shut up you stupid women", and then when I got on the lift which was already full (tiny lift, 3-4 people max) got shoved by a guy blasting music on his headphones.

So basically today I'm just scared to step out because of all the cunty folk I seem to keep running into!

People who moan/whinge/tut/loudly complain etc... about a small child playing up and talk to the mother like she's a piece of dirt.
Someone once asked the bus driver to kick a mum and her child off the bus because the little one was crying loudly.
The driver said the man was more than welcome to get off the bus and he'll drop him at the next bus stop. But he won't be kicking a parent and their child off the bus for no reason. Wish there were more people like him and less of the selfish obnoxious man.

Cheese and onion crisps. Vom

A lot of people have already said the obvious ones. One of my fave annoyances is what I call hobby travelers, the ones that aren't used to either public transport in general or just this particular mode of public transport. They can't just get on and sit down or stand, they have to stop inside the door and look around, and make a show of looking for a place, and omg it's the first carriage so it's full - where is important me going to sit? Well try going further down the train/to the back of the bus? Or people who bring suitcases on and just can't quickly and efficiently move in with them somewhere but end up faffing in the corridor.

Also: first time parents taking the pram on the bus/train for the first time. The amount of faffing to just get on the bus. Jesus.

`Smelly people.

Garlic, that old fried smell that lingers on clothes, people eating smelly food.

Loud musing leaking from earphones.

Backpacks. Put It Away.

Women who swish their hair in your face.

Anyone who faffs around by the touch out.

Anyone who raising stands on the left of the elevators.

Anyone who stops after they've cleared the touch out.

People clipping their nails.

The smell of coffee. Actually, the smell of anything that's too strong.

Pole leaners on a packed tube.

Backpacks.

Yes to all the aforementioned stuff:
No earphones, just blaring music from phone out of selfishness
People who stand at the entrance, exit and are IN THE FUCKING WAY!
People with illnesses , sneezing and putting their sticky snotty hands on every single surface
People who are so important that their bags must have a seat of their own
People who clearly find washing themselves or their clothes a bit of a challenge
Bad breath, silent farting, hungover and still sweating out the drink
Perfectly able bodied people who don't get up and give their seat to someone on crutches/ with a rollator etc.
People who don't give up their seat to an elderly person.

Oh , and whistlers. Bastards.

Thanks banivani that makes me feel super confident about the day I take my baby on the bus for the first time...

When I see people trying to look everywhere but the mum with a young kid and shopping so they don't have to give up there seat.. arseholes

People trying to use their senior citizen bus pass before 9am and giving the driver grief for telling them they can't use it at 8:30! You've got all bloody day, what's the rush.

YES to all the above apart from wailing kids- sometimes that just can't be helped! And faffing on the bus for the first time with a buggy! Every time I get on the bus with a buggy it's like the first time. Thankfully people tend to be quite patient and sympathetic on the whole. But then I don't travel during rush hour.
Also those who eat chicken and chips! Why can't you wait til you get off! And those who leave rubbish - namely tissues on the seats! I bloody hate them!

People not in wheelchairs who won’t vacate the space for wheelchair users

Loud phone conversations that include a lot of swearing.

There were audible gasps from several older people on the bus the other day. A man at the front was swearing down the phone about his brother.

I thought I might need to pass round the smelling salts at one point. :o

Crying babies and whinging toddlers.
Buggies/prams not folded up and clogging up the aisle (cause people invariably try to squeeze more into the pram space than is room for.)
Old dearies using their bus pass on 'commute time' buses.
Women who think their handbag needs a seat all of its own...honestly, this is far more prevalent and irritating the man spreading.
The weirdos who try to talk to you.
Music without headphones.

I once saw a woman at the front of a really long queue (40 or so people), get on the bus and put her suitcase on the seat next to her! How do these people's minds work? Do they have no sense of what is going on around them or do they just think 'fuck it, I don't care that someone will have to stand up while my case has a seat'?

Oh gosh yeh prams in the aisle right wind me up when bus drivers let them even though the space is already taken so they just stand there blocking the aisle.

Tablets / phones / music without headphones. It gives me the rage.

McDonald's eaters are grim. The smell and the sounds are just vom- worthy.

This morning some twat sat down next to me on the train and started painting her nails. It stank and I was on edge expecting red nail varnish to be poured over me if the train lurched. Grrr.