To expect someone on a crowded commuter train with their 8 or 9 yo NOT to read out loud in a booming voice all the way into London...

[CountessDracula]

grrrrrrrrrrrr

Surely he can bring a book to read himself, she was bellowing out this bloody book god knows what it was all teh way in

My suspicions confirmed once again. You londoners can be right unfriendly.

What does it matter is tourists dither a little. Let's drop you in Athens and see how you dither.

Central London isn't scary stripeyknickers

I find remote villages far scarier

I'm with pointydog. Bloody miserable bunch of bugg*rs . I will make a point in future of blocking the ticket queue, dropping my bags all over the place, engaging people in long conversations (or god forbid smiling and trying to be friendly) and keeping a ready supply of family photos in my purse. Oh yes.. and getting lost and asking for help.

Orm, I likes ya

I have not dithered once in Athens

YABU. Miserable git! You sound like my dad. He can't bear to hear anyone else talking and thinks you should whisper on trains so as not to annoy anyone.

Anyway, you were lucky. My train soundtrack was three teenage girls playing 'I went to the shop and I bought .... an Apple, Binoculars, Christmas Crackers etc all the way to Z over and over again.

< Through gritted teeth > But I didn't mind.

(I'm sure I could have come up with better than Athens)

By the way, I do agree with cd's op about the twunter with the loud voice. That would set my teeth on edge

Countess

YANBU - irritating

I need your input re this please www.mumsnet.com/Talk/1375/392728?stamp=070921200838

lol all townies fear Not where you come from from is infinitely scarier than London- it's not even 0207/0208 or london postcodes - be very ^afraid*

You non-Londoners are prone to sweeping generalisations, aren't you? Must be all that dithering

i should know i am townie-raised-townie-fled-til-got-to-something-btter

What Grumpy old horsewoman said. If other commuters bother you so much then walk/drive to work

The ex-townie Londoners are the worst sort. And they develop a habit of using italics at every available opportunity

italics must be their equivalent of talking in a VERY VERY loud voice for the benefit of the slack-jawed yokels

She should worry that a 8/9 year old could not read the book to himself

Well I was recently on a bus in Edinburgh when a loud, obnoxious man at the back phoned to order wood for his new flooring. He proceeded to read out, loudly, his Visa card number, complete with security code.

As if that wasn't enough, he then phoned a florist and ordered a £20 bouquet of flowers for his mum's birthday, gave out her name and address, his name and address, and once again, all his Visa details.

Utter fool.

edinburgh must run a close second to london though, in terms of tossers

OR Play Hungry hippos on a corss channel ferry at 7am

oh really
my mcp's are huge all this italic use

I think I like your last post, SM, but I don't know what mcps are.

im kinda cockahop that i can do italics took me so long to master it i show off and overuse them

"Look at this page"

I have heard on my commuter train:
Woman on mobile describing the reasons for her recent abortion (was buying a house, so not the right time ...)
Man on mobile describing the break up of his marriage - including the bit involving the police
(Can't these people, just say, "I'll ring you back when I get home?)
Man chatting to woman about his tenant's bad habits - very very loudly - and then capping it with "I'm a very private person" at which point other commuters burst out laughing.
Man trying to arrange awfully awfyully dinner party to which other commuters, fed up with his braying tones, requested an invite.
As a miserable commuter I try to avoid the families, but if caught, I stick my iPod in and listen to music hoping the little darlings won't kick me.

do you have a job of a medical nature then?

(to Scottishmummmy obv)

I always pictured you milking cows in the country, lily. A picture shattered.