What’s the most annoying person who’s encountered on public transport?

[zaraaraz]

On Friday I had a woman loudly demand a seat, the man sat at the table gave up his seat for her.

She then told the woman sitting there that she was glad as had studying to do, told her what she was studying (learning a language) and that she was so advanced she was taking her first and second year at the same time.

She then proceeded to talk into her phone loudly in the other language making voice notes on her phone.

Oh dear.
There was an obnoxious drunk years ago on my intercity but what made it really heinous was he had a daughter about 12 with him which was heartbreaking.

Mainly random drunk people.

Also once on the Paris metro a stoned / high guy waving a filthy syringe lurching up the carriage. When the train stopped everyone ran and legged it into the next carriage.

There's a man who gets on at the same stop as me most mornings. He always sits upstairs on the bus and I always sit downstairs. When the bus stops right beside me I just quickly get on, bleep my card and sit down. One day, he was at the bus stop first, so he tutted me for getting on first. Even though the doors opened right beside me, and he was a few feet away, I should have stood back, waved him on to the bus first, so that he could go and sit upstairs He gave me the most FILTHY dirty menacing look but didn't verbalise what I had done so I am filling in the gaps here. Some people are very odd.

People who play their music so loudly I can hear it through their earphones, people who don't wear earphones, parents who let their children watch videos with the sound on / no earphones.

There's a theme

Anyone who doesn't wear headphones when playing something

There was a bloke a few years back when I was trying to get on a tube train in London. He got in with a bike. He was told he couldn't travel with his bike but refused to get off. Even when they emptied the train and told him very clearly it wasn't going anywhere until he got off he still wouldn't budge. Bizarre behaviour.

Drunken football fans screaming singing football songs whilst on a train. Trying desperately to get everyone to join in.

I turned my hearing aid off and carried on reading my book

A number of years back a man with a set of bagpipes got on the underground. There’s a time and place for bagpipes such as on a windy mountain in Scotland. The 08:25 central line is not the place. It was shrill and made our ears bleed but all us commuters did was tut and roll our eyes at each other.

Once saw someone eating a bucket of fried chicken on the bus...they dropped the bones on the floor. Un fucking believable

I think the worst was a stinky drunk who looked like he spent many years on the street who passed out in the tube and then urinated.

I was once on a train in New York.

Watched mesmerised as a woman ate her breakfast,
Carefully, vigorously and thoroughly FLOSSED HER TEETH and then did a full face of make up. Very well I might add!

Today!! From the stop before Farringdon to Farringdon. Worst train experience of my life. Family/group of drunk crack heads. They were all screaming at each other, they were being so revolting to anyone who dared look at them, I won't even write how bad the insults were. me and my husband kept our heads in our books but I could see even he was pretty shaken up.
It's at least a20 minute journey and we were stuck with them, was so horrible, the fighting and screaming, urgh

Going from Glasgow to Cornwall on a train ealry 1990s with a disabled friend who is a full ime wheelchair... Unable to get out without a hoist.
Anyway someone was in her booked space.
No ticket collectors or any staff to be found.
We had to sit in the doorway. She got out her wheelchair in brlirmingham stood up folded her wheelchair up and walked off carrying it down the platform

I'm torn between the woman who ignored her young dc for the entire journey (2+hours) other than to tell them that no she didn't have a drink for them (while drinking a bottle of fizzy). She didn't tell them to get out of the way when they were laying all over the aisle and people were stepping over them. She didn't tell them to stop climbing all over my dc and their flip down tables that they were trying to play card games on. She did tell me to mind my own business when I told them to get off of my sons head.

And the Mum on our return journey who spent the entire time loudly commenting to her teen DD that my young dc were "really badly bought up" not offering their seats to them as they had paid for their tickets. So had we. And we'd booked those exact seats. And my dc weren't big enough to reliably hold on if they had been standing, unlike her and her teen.

I've also encountered some truly lovely people on public transport. Including the lady who played hangman with my dc for hours when she could see how worn out I was!

On the train and a woman with two kids cake and sat opposite me in a table of four seats and stared out the window as her two kids misbehaved. One was running up and down the carriage being a right pest, kicked me a few times under the table, not on purpose, but she couldn't have given a shit at what he was doing.

There’s a lot of competition, but probably the women who sat next to me on the top deck of the bus, despite the bus being nearly empty, and then ate a smelly sandwich very noisily. She then started to vape. I ended up changing seats.

2 men smoking in a non smoking carriage. I assumed they hadn't realised so leant over and quietly said, you might not realise, but this is a non smoking carriage. They proceeded, very loudly, to tell me what they thought of me. I told them I don't care what they think of me they were still smoking in a non smoking carriage. They carried on. Eventually a man went over to them and whispered something in their ear, they immediately apologised and put their cigarettes out the window.
I was absolutely seething that they brushed me off like an annoying insect, but grovelled to a man!

Group of women on a 5 hour coach trip to Glastonbury one year. They spent the entire time shrieking, trying to get everyone doing singalongs, roaming up and down the aisle being all 'matey' and kooky, trying to chat up the driver etc. Then when we got stick in traffic, one of them kept getting off and wandering along the road, pestering other drivers.

Backfired when the traffic jam cleared suddenly and she got left behind Apparently the driver wasn't her new best mate after all.

Too many to recount unfortunately. Having a man flossing his teeth opposite me was a gross one. Man combing out his long hipster beard another. Lady the other day was sticking plasters all over her blistered toes...can understand the pain, but please...no one wants to witness your bare feet and bleeding toes. Atleast in the pandemic the application of a full face of makeup with powder flying everywhere seems to have reduced...I assume it's the masks.

The loud obnoxious talkers are the worst though, either on the phone or to other people. I just get up and move carriages to get away from them. Same with anyone I perceive as a bit dodgy... drunk, high, leery. My work colleagues gasped that I would get up and move "you're so brave, I would never do that"...for fear of being rude! I couldn't care less if someone thinks I am rude, atleast I don't have to sit awkwardly listening to some idiot blather on at high volume about their most recent stint in the chorus of a west end musical.

Was on the tube home and it was very quiet. I was in a carriage with one man. Didn't think anything of it but he suddenly approached me, sat down next to me and put his arm around me. I stood up and said something like 'WTF is wrong with you' and got off and into the next carriage where I saw a couple sitting. They asked me if I was alright and I was fine but grateful they were there.

We got a free upgrade on a BA flight shortly after boarding, but before take off.

The flight attendant showed us to our seats, a dual next to the window. Seat lay out was ( 2 - 4 - 2). A lady in the adjacent row of 4 complained to FA that her and her husband were going to move to the seats we were in as she had been told they were not allocated by another FA, and she should trump us as she had paid to be in 1st class and we obviously hadn't.

She was told a stern no as we were sitting in them, but she kicked up such a fuss the captain had to come and tell her to calm down, or she would be removed. (Captain had approved our request for upgrade - hubby often get upgrade as was travelling as diplomat).

She spent the whole 10 hour flight moaning she was uncomfortable, moaning about BA and how she'll never use them.again... and staring at us, as if trying to intimidate us.

We both have skin like rhinos and acted it out whilst sipping the champagne.... her being so irate made us all the more comfortable.
Even better when we waltzed past her standing in the long immigration queue as we went down the empty diplomatic aisle 🤣

Imagine having to live next to some of these people.

Mine include creepy guy who would always sit right behind me even on an empty bus and worked his way up to stroking my back. When I told him to do one and then moved he had the grace to look ashamed and apologised the next day

The woman who filed her nails next to me on the train

Dave the annoying. Wanted to talk at you for the whole journey. Every journey.

When I was revising for an exam the next day a woman talked at me about her daughters exam even though I told her my exam was the next day and I needed to concentrate. When she finally got off a man turned round and took her place telling me all about his exams
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Parents who let their kids play games on devices without earphones.

I guess the parents themselves can just tune out the racket but I certainly can't.

@Macncheeseballs

Anyone who doesn't wear headphones when playing something

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The ostentatious nose- picker of Queens Park, woman on bus farting loudly and repeatedly and lifting a cheek for extra effect, all drunks but esp those who start out obnoxious and end up vomiting ... Sheldon was right about the need for bus pants