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shocking behavior on a National Express bus this week...

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WritingHome · 14/10/2017 13:06

I traveled on a National Express coach from Stanstead to Norfolk this week.

The coach apparently stopped at Heathrow and Gatwick before arriving at Stanstead at 8.30am. It was pretty much empty apart from a couple of passengers who were already on there when I got on, including two young girls (late teens / early 20's by their appearance). They were clearly on their way home from somewhere like Magaluf and were wearing clubbing gear (tiny tiny denim hotpants and skimpy tops and sandals. It was a cold wet, drizzly morning in the UK. One of them was wrapped in beach towels and they were both asleep and looking worse for the wear.

I took a seak on the other side of the aisle and slightly in front of then but if I looked across the bus to look out the far window they were in my line of vision iykwim.

The three hour journey began and about an hour into it, one of them woke up and started moaning. Then she was coughing and then I heard what I thought was the sounds of someone puking (!!)

I glanced around and she was using one of the clear plastic airline liquids bags and was retching into it. She stopped and went back to sleep.

They woke sporadically and complained to each other about how they would never drink again and they were fairly roughly spoken - lots of cursing etc. The sick one continued to puke throughout the journey which was pretty off-putting and disgusting.

The worst thing of all was that they got off at Thetford and she LEFT three bags of puke thrown on the floor of the bus and various tissues suffed into the back of the seat pocket. Absolutely grim. I did not see this until the were already off the bus or I would have said something to them. Why could they not have just taken it off the bus and dumped into a bin??

They were young and and older woman (possibly mother of one of them) met them at the stop. If they were my daughters I would have been so ashamed of them!

I was getting off at the next stop and as I was leaving I told the driver in case he just picked the bags up with his hands not knowing what was in them. He looked horrified too.

Afterwards I was cross at myself for not saying something earlier but what could I have said? Stop puking? Hardly likely to have worked and tbh I was pretty shocked it was even happening...

What would you have done?

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upperlimit · 14/10/2017 13:13

Well, the puking is gross but, as you say, "stop being sick" isn't going to help. I'd probably just move to a seat further away.

I'm not going to entertain the part about their tiny, tiny clothes though - it's not relevant.

NoCryLilSoftSoft · 14/10/2017 13:18

"Was on a bus today and a woman vommitted into a plastic bag and then left it in the bus when she got off"

There. Got rid of the useless stuff for you.

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 13:22

I would have stopped clutching my pearls and got over myself.

Yes it would have been nicer to take the sick with them so the cleaner diddnt have to deal with it but apart from that I really don't see what they did wrong.

NoCryLilSoftSoft · 14/10/2017 13:24

I really don't see what they did wrong.

I think this is it "They were clearly on their way home from somewhere like Magaluf and were wearing clubbing gear (tiny tiny denim hotpants and skimpy tops and sandals."

honeysucklejasmine · 14/10/2017 13:26

What pp said. Hmm

BitOutOfPractice · 14/10/2017 13:27

God could you judge them any harder op?

Leaving the sick behind is grim, I agree. But the rest of the stuff, meh. Who cares?

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 13:28

@NoCryLilSoftSoft 'young girls in having fun on a party holiday shocker!'

I can see the headlines now 😒

KERALA1 · 14/10/2017 13:30

Thetford- walking around that town centre is illuminating

insancerre · 14/10/2017 13:31

Well, if I felt pukey poorly the last thing I'd want to do is carry the bags of puke with me

NoCryLilSoftSoft · 14/10/2017 13:31

I think OP was upset because she had been reminded that she wasn't just back from magaluf and wearing tiny tiny denim hot pants. It's ok OP, I'd be sad too. I miss magaluf.

crazycatguy · 14/10/2017 13:32

The 60s vomited all over Thetford so a couple of bags of it on a bus is a small societal revenge.

sayyouwill · 14/10/2017 13:32

People aren't able to just not be sick. Usually if you're being sick it's involuntary.
Yes leaving it on the bus was bad but I highly doubt the driver was 'horrified'. I've seen way worse on national express buses so I'm sure the driver has dealt with worse than some sick bags and tissues

insancerre · 14/10/2017 13:32

Thetford is my home town but I've not lived there for 30 years
Such a shame how it's changed

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WritingHome · 14/10/2017 13:33

Wow...you lot are definitely a LOT more tolerant than I am!

I paid the bones of £50 for a return ticket. I did not expect to listen to the sounds of a hungover to shit youngster all the way or to see her puking into a clear plastic bag or cursing her way for 3 hours.

I am not from the UK, was visiting for work and it def put me off using an airport coach again.

But is seems from the consensus here that I am the unreasonable one and none of you would be in the least bit bothered by this Hmm

Ok. Now I know.

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JoanBartlett · 14/10/2017 13:33

I hope my children would always take it home. We hvae gone to great lengths when one teenager was car sick to get tyhe sick bags off the coach or van into a bin as soon as we can including on toilet stops. In fact we carry specific extra sealing plastic bags to put the sick bags into. I am not sure all silly young girls tend to be so well prepared probably after first trip abroad like that. You could have said - it looks like you have forgotten something....... and made them take it off the bus before the driver moved on I suppose.

nodogsinthebedroom · 14/10/2017 13:34

NoCryLilSoftSoft has it perfectly.

LanaKanesLeftNippleTassle · 14/10/2017 13:34

Apart from leaving the mess on the bus, I really don't see the problem??

They're young, they went on holiday, they over did it. Meh.
Were you never a teen op?

I remember puking out a car window once I was so hungover.
Have also got a train back from a festival, in a right state, wearing a pink furry bikini and fairy wings, wrapped in my sleeping bag.

And why the actual fuck does it matter what they were wearing?
It makes you sound very judgy.

I came back from Ibiza last month, it was 30 degrees in the airport, I was wearing "skimpy" clothes when I stepped out at Luton into freezing drizzle.

The puke leaving was utterly utterly grim, but the rest of it I couldn't give a flying fuck about.
Do you expect people coming back from aholiday hungover to refrain from public transport in case they offend your sensibilities??

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 13:35

The driver was HORRIFIED too 😂

LanaKanesLeftNippleTassle · 14/10/2017 13:35

The 60s vomited all over Thetford so a couple of bags of it on a bus is a small societal revenge.

Grin
brasty · 14/10/2017 13:36

OMG it makes me ashamed to be British.

{better OP?}

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 13:37

@WritingHome ok well out telling them to stop puking wouldn't have worked but if you were so utterly shocked by the language why diddnt you say anything there and then?

DontDrinkDontSmoke · 14/10/2017 13:37

At least she had a bag.

5rivers7hills · 14/10/2017 13:37

SOmeone threw up into a bag? Crime of the centuary.

You sound lame as fuck

sayyouwill · 14/10/2017 13:39

You didn't expect young girls with hangovers on the National Express?
You should have gotten a train if you're that precious

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WritingHome · 14/10/2017 13:41

Actually the driver WAS disgusted. I said it to him as I was leaving in the context that he might want to let whoever would be cleaning the bus know and he said that would be him and it was disgusting.

I am perhaps more shocked by the responses on here then about the journey itself.

I really do not believe that none of you would be bothered by it..

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