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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:
CoughLaughFart · 14/10/2017 15:08

Welcome to Mumsnet - where puking into bags on a bus is 'grim', but noticing what the puker was wearing is far, far worse.

OP, you also forget to check whether they suffered from anxiety before you reacted...

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 15:11

Is it genuinely that shocking that sometimes people drink to the point of being sick?

I doubt many people go out with the intention of wanting to vomit- it's horrible let's face it! But there are occasions where sometimes you end up vomiting after drinking.

Slimthistime · 14/10/2017 15:15

Accidentally "I doubt many people go out with the intention of wanting to vomit"

heard that one so many times, but many people are well aware they'll be throwing up on public transport later. If they had to spend a few hours clearing it up in return it would be fair enough.

Slimthistime · 14/10/2017 15:16

although it's a declining problem I suppose - people in their 40s and 50s drink way more than people in their 20s now I think?

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 15:19

And 40 and 50 year olds would never like whilst wearing hot pants.?

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 15:20

Erroneous ? There....

Bearfrills · 14/10/2017 15:20

We went on a National Express coach over the summer. An hour into the five hour journey DD, who had been sleeping, suddenly sat up and sprayed sick over the back of the seat in front of her and down herself then leaned into the aisle and sprayed it all over the floor. Driver didn't give a fuck and when I tried to clean it up best I could with wet wipes, tissues and anti-bac hand gel he told me "not to worry, pet, that's the cleaners job not yours".

hmcAsWas · 14/10/2017 15:24

Don't worry OP some of the posters on here are on another planet Hmm

It was disgusting of them to leave their bags of sick and soiled tissues on the coach. Anyone who disagrees with this is probably a regular on Jeremy Kyle

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 15:25

@hmcAsWas good job no one has disagreed with that then isn't it.

sayyouwill · 14/10/2017 15:26

Don't worry OP some of the posters on here are on another planet *

It was disgusting of them to leave their bags of sick and soiled tissues on the coach. Anyone who disagrees with this is probably a regular on Jeremy Kyle*

Literally every single poster has said it was grim. I haven't yet seen anyone disagree.

Lambside · 14/10/2017 15:29

Yuck. Sounds like the journey from hell for you and not much fun for the two girls either.

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 15:31

@sayyouwill ah but where's the fun in that? Much better to read the OP and then try and make a dig about Jeremy Kyle style posters without actually reading any responses, it's a much more effective way of making oneself look like a dickhead I find!

EachandEveryone · 14/10/2017 15:32

I use these coaches all the tome. Id have got up and moved to the front. Perhaps offered them some gum as well.

hmcAsWas · 14/10/2017 15:35

AccidentalyRunToWindsor - there is clearly something wrong with your comprehension skills. On the first two pages seven different posters made glib comments and didn't say they disagreed with leaving the bags of sick. So I think it's probably you who has been "making oneself look like a dickhead I find!"

sayyouwill · 14/10/2017 15:38

@hmcAsWas 7 posters didn't say they disagreed?! Holy moly, that means they agree with it by default!!!!

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 15:39

Please accept my sincerest apologies, I wasn't aware not expressing that it was grim that the girls left sicky bags on the coach meant that posters thought it was a perfectly normal thing to do.

I bow down to your, quite clearly superior comprehension skills.

sayyouwill · 14/10/2017 15:39

Also, glib comments on mumsnet? What has the world come to?!

Timefortea99 · 14/10/2017 15:41

I would be bothered OP. You are not unreasonable to expect to sit on a coach without the sound of someone spewing, or witnessing them leave all that mess behind.

PrincessoftheSea · 14/10/2017 15:45

Agree with you OP utterly vile.

IfyouseeRitaMoreno · 14/10/2017 15:47

Of course it’s gross!

TiesThatBindMe · 14/10/2017 15:50

People puking make me feel like puking. I'd probably have ended up spewing everywhere myself. So yes, it was disgusting. Not much you could do about it - I'd have had to have moved to the far end of the bus.

Fauchelevent · 14/10/2017 16:02

I chundered on a coach once. I was sleep deprived, and hadnt eaten or drank enough that day and i vommed into an empty pret a manger juice bottle i had which i promptly then disposed of au privé, and i was vair discreet. This is the vomit etiquette, henceforth known as vomitiquette, as set out by Debretts.

brasty · 14/10/2017 16:04

You left out the crucial details Fauchelevent What were you wearing?

Cracklesfire · 14/10/2017 16:05

I once got a private bus home from an event - horrible road, everybody had been drinking all day although I was pregnant and sober. Some rank bugger spewed in the aisle of the bus and his stinking stomach contents then rolled around the bus for the next 30 minutes. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever experienced. At least she bagged it neatly!

Allthebestnamesareused · 14/10/2017 16:09

You said you sat opposite and slightly ahead of them.

Personally after the first puke I'd have moved closer to the front of the bus. Then you wouldn't have had to listen to the subsequent heaving!

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