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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?

OP posts:
upperlimit · 14/10/2017 13:42

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

It's bad, isn't it? And we're all sat around in tiny tiny hot pants too.

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 13:42

Can you explain to me how the outfits of the girls is relevant to this tale please @WritingHome ?

Ringsender2 · 14/10/2017 13:43

Are you a north American OP?

JonSnowsWife · 14/10/2017 13:43

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

It's not that no one would be bothered by it. It's just reprimanding them at that point is not constructive. It wont stop them from being sick. Confused

In my experience travelling on any sort of coach is a grim experience anyway. Whether or not accompanied by hungover women or not.

Original poster
WritingHome · 14/10/2017 13:44

I am giving up on this thread now. It has been illuminating.

OP posts:
AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 13:44

I mean, I would be shocked too, hotpants are so out this year. It's all about the culottes. I would have hoped young people would know that.

JonSnowsWife · 14/10/2017 13:45

Plus I'm not sure what their clothes have to do with anything.

Unless they're trying to encourage me to wear a short arse skirt. Seriously no one wants to see that image of me. Grin they can wear what they like.

insancerre · 14/10/2017 13:45

😂
Upper limit

maddiemookins16mum · 14/10/2017 13:46

Regardless if age, sex, holiday choices, hot pant wearing etc, they were VU to leave bags of vomit. Some people have no shame.

brasty · 14/10/2017 13:46

You do get people with hangovers on trains as well. I travel on the train from Heathrow to London fairly often.

dazedandconfuse · 14/10/2017 13:46

Alright Theresa May.... (because the worst thing you ever did was run through a field of wheat obviously) 🙄🙄🙄

Sallystyle · 14/10/2017 13:47

Leaving the sick bag on the coach is the only thing she did wrong.

I don't like the sound of people throwing up, it makes me feel ill myself. But I wouldn't care enough to start a thread and say the behaviour was shocking.

Not getting your outrage OP.

brasty · 14/10/2017 13:47

I don't think anyone really thinks OP that it was okay to leave bags of vomit on a coach.
But your post is so full of judgemental points, that of course people are going to respond this way.

Damnthatonestaken · 14/10/2017 13:48

You still dont get it op? Nobody would be bothered by another person's pants. The vomiting is indeed unpleasant and shouldn't have been left there

LanaKanesLeftNippleTassle · 14/10/2017 13:48

Oh ffs WritingHome.

Were you never a teen?

You are getting the responses you got because you went on about what they were wearing, and the fact they were hungover.

It is literally none of your business what they were wearing, or whether they were swearing.

I can't believe how shocked you are at what is perfectly normal behaviour.

It's not like they do it every day ffs, it's probably a holiday they will remember forever, and might bot get to repeat again.

They're young, they're having fun.

Again, leaving the puke on the bus was gross, but everything else is just normal.

sheldonesque · 14/10/2017 13:48

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

That can be as bad. And I'm not precious.

Bubblebubblepop · 14/10/2017 13:49

It is a bit grim to leave the bags. But bless them, that coach trip must've been HELL on a raging hangover

OP in the UK the bus is the cheapo option. Should've got a train or taxi if you didn't want to be around a rather wide cross section of society Grin

brasty · 14/10/2017 13:51

Basically unless you drive, you can get someone with a hangover puking. Not nice, but not the end of the world.

Seriously tempted to get a group of friends to go on the National Express with me on a trip, all wearing hot pants and teeny tiny tops. We are all in our 50s and 60s, but so what.

reallyanotherone · 14/10/2017 13:52

i love this site. Maybe if you said they clearly hadn't showered in the last three hours you would have got more "ugh, unacceptable" comments :)

Post that you don't shower every day and wash your towels and sheets three times a minute and you're a disgusting unhygienic creature inflicting your horrendous stink on the rest of the planet. Particularly unacceptable on public transport.

Go clubbing all night, fly home still drunk, probably not having washed recently, puking into plastic bags on a bus, then expecting others to clean up after you, meh, what's the problem.

We have people who can apparently smell a bra that hasn't been washed under clean clothes, and women's period, but the smell of vomit in the close bus quarters wouldn't trouble their nose.

Fwiw I think it's beyond grim. They should have got the later bus when they'd stopped vomiting. I dread to think what the poor buggers on the plane were subjected to.

TheFairyCaravan · 14/10/2017 13:53

Someone puked on the floor on a Jet2 flight going out to Cyprus. The crew put tissues over the top and people had to sit with it at their feet on the way home because they "don't have time to clean between flights!" Shock.

I bet they wished the puke was in some bags.

LanaKanesLeftNippleTassle · 14/10/2017 13:53

Seriously tempted to get a group of friends to go on the National Express with me on a trip, all wearing hot pants and teeny tiny tops. We are all in our 50s and 60s, but so what.

Can I come??

Might dig out the old raving outfits!

Fuck it, lets have a national MN day where we all get on NE coaches in the tiniest outfits we can squeeze in, bonus points for being hungover, and extra for being wrapped in a random textile.

EdmundCleverClogs · 14/10/2017 13:55

Leaving bags of sick on the bus is very grim and unacceptable. Swearing is rather inconsiderate, I'm not sure if you mentioned if there were children around but if not then certainly not the most awful thing ever (unless aggressive of course).

However, the way you've described them - and they sound like perfectly normal 'just come from a party holiday' girls - is awful, bordering on misogynistic. You sound like you've never overdone it on the 'young fun' scene in your (much?) younger years, however most of us have. Like watching others being hungover prats? No, but can sympathise, absolutely.

jay95 · 14/10/2017 13:55

That's what put the Great into Britain, eh?
We can vomit where we want and leave it lying around for the foreign coach cleaners to pick up.
Mmm.

brasty · 14/10/2017 13:56

LanaKanes Sounds fun. And fuck it, lets get drunk and eat junk food too.

upperlimit · 14/10/2017 13:58

It's almost like there are lots of individual people posting rather than a Borg-like collective really.

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