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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:
Keepthebloodynoisedown · 14/10/2017 16:13

Leaving it was awful, but from the sound of it she wasn't throwing up before she got on the coach, it was probably a combination of the hangover and travel sickness.
I wish I still had the legs and arse to wear hot pants.

Fauchelevent · 14/10/2017 16:14

brasty you sound like a hairy handed poster Grin

darling i was in a chanel evening gown, with a matching hat returning from henley regatta. I was also sitting side saddle on the seat, and a gentleman kindly dabbled my lips after my expulsion, after which i blushed delicately. Was IBU?

brasty · 14/10/2017 16:15

No, of course YWNBU. Grin

EdmundCleverClogs · 14/10/2017 16:31

As a previous poster said, a Megabus would have been worse. Count your blessings.

www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_mash_report/videos/14092/middleclass_family_on_megabus/

VioletCharlotte · 14/10/2017 16:54

I thought YABU until I read the bit about them leaving the sick bags on the coach. That's pretty disgusting.

YouMeanNothing · 14/10/2017 17:26

Leaving the sick was selfish and even though I swear too much I'd have eventually got tired of fuck this fuck that fucking fuck for hours on end but they must have probably stank if they were still in clubbing gear and had been on a flight afterwards then a long bus journey so that was probably the worst thing.
But after not seeing my now ex-h for years (he lived on another continent two days travel away) I was once giving him a bit too much affection on a bus (not sex) to make up for lost time and with hindsight it was selfish and no fun for other passengers and I'm ashamed so can't really criticize anyone else

kali110 · 14/10/2017 18:06

Seriously? Leaving sick on the bus? Thats disgusting. No wonder the op was Hmm
I was getting sick on the bus.
I got off. I certainly wasnt going to inflict it on other people.
Leaving bags of sick on the bus is revolting and there is no excuse.

Loctite · 14/10/2017 18:19

This thread has made me laugh - all the 'right on' posters saying 'oh it's no big deal, just young people being perfectly normal - get over your precious self op' - yeah right! Like they would be happy to be stuck on a 3hr bus journey with puking hungover girls! As if...

Can you imagine what they were like in Shagaluf or where ever they were!? This is why Brits have such a bad name abroad and tv shows are made about it.

OP I am with you on this one. What a lovely welcome for any tourists who happened to be on that bus from those airports!

Bubblebubblepop · 14/10/2017 18:39

Loctite I get horrifically travel sick (even in my own car) and I have puked my way around the country.

I also like a good boozing session and being a fairly pukey person I get very sick with hangovers and having a hangover makes my travel sickness much worse

Many people have been subjected to watching me puke. It wouldn't occur to me it was that scandalous. I do take my puke with me, mind Grin

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 18:42

The chance of me being on a bus are minimal but in all honesty, I would be giving empathetic knowing smiles at the girls whilst remarking to my travel companion that I am glad the days of going to magaluf are behind me.

I'm also massively travel sick- I've vommed on buses and cars without a drop of booze in my system.

I will repeat that I would have expected them to take the puke bags with them but presumably I would only spot that once they were off so I couldn't do much about it.

BitOutOfPractice · 14/10/2017 18:52

Accidentally the op had no idea where they’ve been.* It might’ve been Brighton for all she knew.*

chocolatemademefat · 14/10/2017 18:53

writinghome I don't think you were being unreasonable. I'm fed up listening to bad language and sitting near someone vomiting into bags would give me the groo. When did it become the norm to behave this way. I have two sons and if I found out this was the way they behaved I'd be ashamed. I think this behaviour comes from a minority of people but taints others. The people on here tutting at your opinions should maybe buy a seat on one of these buses and wade through the bags of vomit and see how precious it makes them. As always this site is full of people I never meet in real life.

UsedtobeFeckless · 14/10/2017 19:01

I was sick into my handbag on the tube once Blush no lunch and then ambushed by a surprise leaving party - two glasses of wine and wallop ... l did take the bag and dispose of it though - only to finally arrive home, feeling like death, and not be able to get into my flat because all my sodding keys were in a bin at Earl's Court ... Happy Days! Sad

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 19:03

This is true though I can confirm was not hotpants weather in Brighton last week.

UsedtobeFeckless · 14/10/2017 19:09

I can't remember what l was wearing - definitely wasn't hot pants, though! Grin

TheCowWentMoo · 14/10/2017 19:14

Once she was sick theres not much she can do to stop it, not pleasant for you but equally one of those things, people are sick on coaches all the time. She might have been travel sick and would have thrown up anyway.
The leaving the bags on the coach is grim, I agree but still a hell of a lot better than having to clear up actual puke, at least she did it in a bag!

TheCowWentMoo · 14/10/2017 19:16

Also its not the norm to behave this way, two girls does not make the norm.

Lethaldrizzle · 14/10/2017 19:19

They sound gross op I'm with you on this.

Loctite · 14/10/2017 19:31

Hang on a minute, to all these people saying that they puke on buses in public and that it is perfectly normal and to be expected to encounter others puking on a bus. This is simply not my experience! I am 47, don't drive, have travelled extensively in many countries very often using buses (as trains to do go everywhere) and I have not come across this. Ever!

Loctite · 14/10/2017 19:31

Trains do NOT go everywhere..

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 14/10/2017 19:36

I threw up into a bag on a bus in Laos. I am rarely on buses. I would never travel any great distance on them as they are so uncomfortable.

HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 14/10/2017 19:37

all these people saying that they puke on buses in public and that it is perfectly normal and to be expected to encounter others puking on a bus.

Which people have said that it’s normal?
To encounter pissed young people? Normal.
To encounter young women in hot pants? Normal.
To encounter ‘roughly spoken’ people? Normal.
To encounter people being sick on public transport? Not normal, it happens but it’s not normal.

Aridane · 14/10/2017 19:45

Grim, grim, grim

Bubblebubblepop · 14/10/2017 19:50

Tbf you wouldn't know if I was puking usually as would hide it unless I was very hungover and then my life would be too pathetic to care what anyone else thought

AccidentalyRunToWindsor · 14/10/2017 19:56

So many people filling in the gaps here to make their own hysterical conclusion.