Train journey CFs

[GreenestValley]

On a train and go to the loo - someone is in it

Wait three, four, five minutes. I have a tactic of trying the door handle several times at intervals so as to hopefully embarrass anyone who thinks they can stay in there as long as they like, into emerging

In this instance even with trying the door and eventually knocking, no movement at all. Clearly someone who wants to avoid the ticket inspector for the full 3 hour length of this journey

I obviously just went to another loo but it really pisses me off - when you’ve got carriages of people who have paid sixty quid for a ticket 👿

AIBU or does this really grind the gears for anyone else?!

this is completely ridiculous. Who do you think you are?

Someone with IBS, who is sick, having bad periods or a miscarriage, stuck in the toilet. Do you expect them to soil yourself so you can go?

Why don't you go to the loo before boarding the train, and you won't need them for the short 3 hours journey. You judge people who have issues, I judge you for not staying away from the loo for 3 hours. How does that feel.

PS non practising Christians in a rural village here.Seriously, unless you’re determined to be “different” nobody will give a flying fandango. Over to you. Maybe time for you to be more inclusive/ open minded? 😊

Oh my word. I am pregnant and sometimes feel chained to the loo, I would have opened the door and puked on you!

I mean obviously I wouldn't actually do this but, you know, in my head.

Sorry, no idea how that happened, oops!

@Hopeisnotastrategy Did you post on the wrong thread?

Did you post on the wrong thread?

I kind of hope not, it's a great reply

It’s 2020, ticket gates have been invented. People don’t hide in loo toilets to dodge fairs any more.

It’s 2020, ticket gates have been invented.

Not all stations have caught up with them! None at my local station and many others. I've often done a return journey without my ticket being checked at all.

People do still hide in toilets to avoid paying.

Person could have had Crone’s or some other issue. So rude.

So could the person waiting to get in.

So they go to the next available toilet and wait until the person has finished and not behave like a bawbag.

You are the cheeky fucker here op

OP I would also be annoyed by people hiding in the loo to avoid the ticket inspector. It used to happen a fair bit decades ago when I was student. I haven't noticed it so much recently but now I tend to book my ticket in advance sit down and read rather than be roaming the train at every conceivable opportunity and noticing others (always my sort of age at the time, hence the noticing!) plotting ticket inspector avoidance.

However, I once took over a loo to pump when I had left my babies at home and was breast feeding. I was in there for at least 20 minutes. Horrifyingly the ticket inspector forced the door open and exposed me to the train corridor. She hadn't knocked or tried to enquire if things were OK or if I could come out. I was really pissed off. So I'm not sure if it would work nowadays.

Of course, when you just come up to a locked loo door you can't know the reason someone is taking ages. Probably better to just walk long to the next loo and only give it head space if there are no available loos on the train.

Fare dodging isn't just about having a ticket or not having a ticket, anyway. You can get through the automated barriers with a child's ticket, for instance, or a ticket to the nearest station, not the further away one you're actually going to.

non practising Christians in a rural village here.Seriously, unless you’re determined to be “different” nobody will give a flying fandango. Over to you. Maybe time for you to be more inclusive/ open minded?

I 100% concur.

@BoomBoomsCousin Did she apologise?

You say you have a "tactic" of trying that handle numerous times. So you basically have decided how long people are allowed to use the toilet for and will try and force them out if they exceed it. How long do you allow people?

Here's hoping you never have to deal with a real problem.

Your ticket doesn't pay for an en-suite private loo. I wonder if you'll ever get a tummy upset whilst on a train, and if you'll be posting on MN about the CF who kept rattling the door handle...

I was once out with my cousin and was in the loo for what seemed like a lifetime with a serious case of constipation, on its way out but painful and took ages; I remember her knocking on the door asking if I was alright. You don't know the person in the train loo was fare dodging and there is more than one toilet on a train, if one is occupied you go to the next one.

@HavenDilemma

Not exactly. She was flustered and I shut the door in her face as soon as I could. By the time I came out, a few minutes later, she had gone.

and there is more than one toilet on a train

I take it you don't often use Cross Country trains . Very lucky if all the loos remain operational for the duration of the journey unless you're lucky enough to get on one of their rapidly diminishing Class 43 stock rather than a Voyager.

Your tactic is horrible. YABU.

Although, how anyone could use a train toilet baffles me. I find them so gross and they are probably rarely cleaned.

Train journey CFs being people who try to hurry or embarrass other people when they are in the loo?!?

Are you honestly claiming that someone sat in a toilet cubicle for 3 hours to try to avoid paying a fare? Get a grip op

Here I think the CF here iro OP stands for Cunty Fuckwit

< goes off to AS OP to see if she’s always such as CF >

I saw this in action the other day. Guy clearly avoiding ticket inspector and poor lady waiting outside. Ticket inspector knocked repeatedly til he came out then collared him. Most satisfying.