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??

Oh yes, loud show parenting.

There was this man with his young daughter on the Tube once, he prattled on non stop for 8 bloody stops on the Metropolitan Line and it was the only time another passenger on the Tube, sitting opposite me, actively tried to catch my eye, just so he could make a "is this real" expression.

It was hilarious. I feel for that little girl though, she was three, he was taking about the "protagonist" in Star Wars.

Worst thing I've ever seen was a bloke cutting his toenails on the train.

Although I once was on a bus where someone farted so noxiously that almost everyone got off the bus at the next stop. I have never smelled anything like it, and hope I never will again.

performance parenting and manspreading

People.

People.

Are you me? haha

@PickAChew That is bus drivers least favourite seat! Lol. It's like having someone lean over you whilst your working! 😬

As a passenger I hate riding on buses when it starts getting full so you have to sit next to someone.
I often am glad when I'm driving that I am the driver safe in my own space in the cab and not travelling on the bus when it starts getting cramped and full! Lol.

Including: men spreading their legs - i make a point of shoving my bag in their space if they don't make room for me. People staring intently. Reading over your shoulder to see phone screen. Smelling bad. Eating. Performance phone calls - no one gives a shit about your problems. Or my pet hate: when on a train with loads of empty seats any creep who decides to sit right opposite me - they get my filthiest look and i inmediately get up and move to an a different seat far away from them. Oh and ticket inspectors on southeastern etc - if I've just paid and presumably that price includes the ticket machine and barriers why are you paid to shout down the carriage pretending your in the 1950s saying 'tickkkkets purrrrlease'. As you can tell: i dislike public transport.

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That other people use it.

Music on phones. So rude!

When I was on crutches recently it was amazing the number of twenty- or thirtysomething men, headphones in, eyes on phones, who sat in the priority seats in the tube and didn't look up or offer me a seat. I'm aware of hidden disabilities but they can't ALL have been disabled! Even when there were other seats free, again and again they made a beeline for the priority seat.

On the other hand, girls, women, older men and teenage boys were all lovely and helpful. Sometimes too much - I was only going one stop once and a fellow passenger took it upon herself to harangue the (thirtysomething, headphone wearing, phone staring) bloke in the nearest priority seat even though I told her I was fine for one stop!

In short - people who grab the priority seats (maybe because it means they get off faster) when they don't need them and who don't give them to people who do.

Ps my worst performance phone call ever was on train back from a work conference this summer. After lunch. Man speaking to his friend "Caffy left me mate. I've had enough - she doesn't want sex and I've had it.....no no listen it's not like the other 2 wives i had ... i loved her and her mum and i did everything .... i'm sleeping on the floor now cause she daaaaaaaant want ma in the BED" CHRIST. It went on for ages. The guy was insane and had made 3 women very rich by the sounds of it - the divorce settlements and his salary part of the conversation was mind boggling. Apparently: not everyone can afford a shot at 3 times lucky. That's what city life is good for.

1. People who smell bad, or do things that smell bad like eating smelly food or painting their nails
2. Manspreading. Really, your nuts are not that large
3. Screaming children. Not a little bit of crying from a tiny baby, but when people allow their children to shriek painfully for ages.
4. People who refuse to get out of the way and let people get off the bus/train
5. Grossly overweight people who take up more than one seat. Did you pay for two seats? No? Then stop taking up 2 spaces on the already busy train
6. Doubly so if they're taking up the wheelchair/accessible space when they don't need it and others do. Yes, I am talking to you huge woman who refused to move out of the wheelchair space on the bus last week to make room for a wheelchair user to board!
7. Disability judgement. No it is not visible, but yes if I stand for this entire journey the pain is unbearable.
8. Drunks
9. Rude, unpleasant staff

Yes, I commute by public transport every day, and it felt good to get that off my chest!

Yesterday I got moaned at for opening the window because it was "fucking freezing", I opened it because the smell of of the complainants B.O was foul and I was struggling not to vomit!

There is an old man around here who whistles constantly, more than once I've been sat infront of him on a long journey gritting my teeth.

Today a woman on the bus was having a very loud and inappropriate conversation about a "client" she'd found "on his arse" this morning as he'd fallen at some point in the night. I assume she was a home carer based on the terminology and language she used.

People who sit down next to you on the tube and slowly, millimetre by millimetre, try to push your arm off the armrest using their own.

People who seem to think it's a sign of weakness to hold on to a pole or strap on a moving train, and consequently spend their whole journey lurching violently around and bumping into or trampling on the feet of their fellow passengers.

Talking loudly on a phone. I don't care what Harry did last week thanks.

People clearing their nose with that odd snorting thing. One guy did it constantly. I wanted to vomit on him.

I had an almighty row with a bus driver once because of his driving. Slam on accelerator, than slam on brake. It was very busy, when schools have kicked out, in South London, so no seats left, and young kids being thrown around like ragdolls because of his shit driving. I asked, wtf? He had asked right go back telling me about how late he was, and I said, don't care fella, you carry on like that you will be even later when someone breaks a fukn bone. He swore back and asked me to leave the bus. I complained but nothing came of it.

I also hate the smell of fried chicken on public transport. And buskers. Full right off.

fudge typo

I love holding the pole on the tube. Preparing for my life when I will be a famous rich stripper. Very mature over here as you can see.

NExt life rather

Ok, I have another one. People on the top deck who walk to the bottom of the stairs... and then stop on the bottom step, so everyone behind them is stuck on the staircase while the bus is in motion. NO. Keep moving, move towards the back doors and let everyone else off the staircase. It's fucking dangerous and that is why people aren't allowed to travel on the stairs (or even stand on the top deck).