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

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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.

I’ve also encountered a drunken man asleep on a tube who suddenly pissed himself.
The worst was a bunch of office workers (I presume) pissed up coming back from London to Essex. One of the men, in his suit, got up into the luggage rack, crawled along it, the train lurched and he fell half onto me. He apologised, I said no worries. He heard my accent and launched into a barrage of taunts. The women in the group tried to shut him up. After a few regular cliche insults from him I lost my shit and gave it back to him. They were pretty quick to get off the train

I just really hate big groups of pissed people on trains -- particularly blokes coming back from football matches. The worst form of human life.

I will usually move carriages to get away from them.

The bloke who called me “a two-bob c--t” on the train up to London yesterday because I asked him to cover his mouth when he was coughing and hacking 6 feet away from us without a mask on.

The woman on the train home with her daughter who put on quite the show of performance parenting- several nursery rhymes (complete with actions), a FaceTime call with her mum on speakerphone where they talked about how delicious their Chinese takeaway was followed by The Secret Life of Pets 2 on her phone, all at an unnecessarily loud volume.

Funniest one was a man next to be on a tube with only a few people on the carriage reading a broadsheet.

When he was reading the left page he literally moved it so the other side was right in front of my face!

I was peeking round the side and making WTF faces at the couple opposite and they were pissing themselves laughing.

Then it would move when he read the left and then BOOM back again. And I'd peek again.

In the end I moved next to them and he seemed totally oblivious... Or was just being an arse.

Who knows!

The woman who sat next to me and painted her nails once..everyone was looking at each other omg. It stank.

She was in apriority seat and someone got on and asked for it.

She had a million bags and wet nails and was really pissed off.

Karma in action!

The old man who grabbed my breasts on a packed bus. Just full on honk honk and held them.
I was 14 and bloody terrified and not one person on that bus helped me.

So yes. Those people who did nothing are the worst I have encountered on public transport. With the pervert a close second.

1. People who get on buses and walk up and down getting in the way when there are empty seats available.
2. Loud talkers or people on their phones
3. The ones who cough and sneeze the whole journey
4. Teens playing music loudly from their phones
5. People blocking the exit

The woman in the seat directly behind us on a five hour train journey.

Used an old style mobile. With key tones.

When she wasn't constantly texting, she was calling people telling them they had to come into work and their leave was cancelled as she was in hospital (and bitching about the ones who weren't instantly available because they had children to the next person on the list).

And then she called her Mum to talk about the nice little holiday she'd managed to get for 'next to nothing' and was on her way to right now. For over an hour.

On the whole I've been quite lucky over the years considering I've been on the tube many times.

I do remember a scary man on a local bus who used to turn around and stare at people. Used to see him quite a bit.

On an uncomfortably crowded train once, I saw a man put a bag on the empty seat next to him as the train arrived at a station. I was standing up so his selfishness was memorable.

@Itpearl but that's just what you do at bus stops, you politely let the first person on first. If you don't show the expected courtesy you will get the tutting you c.f. .

Oh, and the entire carriage/train full of tossers going to Boardmasters who put their giant cases on seats and along the aisles to make sure they had a useful table for their iPads, snacks and laptops and nobody could get to their prebooked seats - including my disabled one, leaving me to sit on the floor for four hours next to the toilet door and DP to sit in the luggage rack (which had enough space for a fully grown man, so at least five cases could have gone into it) as the guard couldn't physically get down the train to sort them out.

People who are so drunk that they pass out and the whole train gets delayed until an ambulance crew turns up.

Group who racially abused the train conductor until transport police removed them.

Man who threw glass bottle down the train and hit someone else’s child on the head.

Boys who smashed bus windows in so the glass landed on my toddler.

Paedophile who kept getting on my local bus service and sitting next to kids even though he had been banned by the bus company.

Man who hurled abuse at teenage girl for the whole journey for having long hair.

Woman who gets on same work route bus at me and yells random abuse at the driver on his driving skills for 45 min journey.

Very early morning bus on a Sunday in south London, just me on my own until a woman with a small child got on. Instantly starts asking (loud and aggressively) what I'm staring at and do I think I know her. Then starts talking to her daughter saying "and that's why them white girls get shanked" I didn't feel intimidated, just bemused that someone thought a good life lesson for a 3 year old was teaching her that white girls deserve to get stabbed on a bus

Another time I had crutches and was sat on a bus in one of the front seats, an old lady sat on my lap because I didn't jump up and move for her, when I yelled in pain because my knee was fucked, she said "young people don't get arthritis" and then leaned on me until I got off the bus.

Similar situation, had crutches and was sat near the front next to the window, an old man sat next to me and started loudly slagging off "lazy, entitled, young people" and saying that we should all be sent off to war.

@Secondbellini You win the thread

There was a woman on the bus the other day who was watching a camera pointed at a cot with a baby crying at full volume, I don't know if she was doing some kind of remote babysitting or something else but it wasn't fun.

Bumpkin, it is only because I am pushing fifty so have a lifetime of anecdotes!

Anyone playing audio without headphones or letting their little darlings watch noisy content without headphones.

@Secondbellini At least you can smile about it

Young lad who always sits close to me and sniffs loudly the entire journey (I get off before him). I gave him a hanky once but he didn’t take the hint.

Woman in first class quiet carriage years ago shouting into her phone for most of a long journey Re business. I asked if she could at least step outside. She said I had been making noise so who did I think I was. I had spoken for around 30 mins with an elderly woman who was deaf (and a bit shorty and very funny). As she said this she pointedly looked at the elderly woman (late 80s).

Have never forgotten that entitled woman nor the company she ran nor indeed her name. Heartless bitch.

She ranks worse than the drinks and general misbehaviour on TfL. Have never experienced true trauma and support for all who have. Women are badly let down in various safety aspects of public transport. Still.

Oh, lovethisjourney's post reminded me of the guy who threatened me with being picked up (I weighed nigh on 18 stone at the time, I'd have liked to have seen all 7 stone of him try) and thrown out the front door for taking up 'the old people's seats' on the bus one morning. Seemed that my leg in a brace and crutches wasn't enough of a clue that I actually needed the disabled seat.

Strangely, he didn't say a bean to the man mountain who got up from his seat at the back of the bus and silently sat down next to me for the rest of the journey. Tried calling me various names at a less shouty volume afterwards (ugly cunt, slag, whore, just the usual kind of thing you get from arsehole men), but man mountain turned and silently gave him The Look, at which point he shut the fuck up.

Such a shame that getting off, I accidentally cracked him on the knee with a crutch because he deliberately put his legs out to try and trip me up. Now what were the odds of that happening?

I was once on a train home after a long day at the beach with my young DC. I was incredibly grateful that my then 4 year old DD wasn’t kicking up a fuss because she can still be quite difficult when she’s overtired to this day (she’s 10 now). We were actually sitting having a rather pleasant conversation when a woman adjacent from us started randomly kicking off at me. She said she understood my DD wasn’t screaming and that she was only young but her voice was really very loud and she couldn’t bear it any longer because she’d had a long day at work and had a headache. I honestly felt like shit after that, another woman close by luckily defended me and told her to get off the train and find another mode of transport if she expected absolute silence. My DD was honestly just chatting to me, the woman was clearly stressed and chose to flip her lid at me. I was so shocked I didn’t even know what to say other than ‘but she was only talking…’.

The Aberdeen to Glasgow train was busy. A bloke came running on, having caught it by the skin of his teeth and sat down next to me. He said he was going to something important. He'd been booked onto the Megabus Express, but had missed it - it left 20 mins before the train. However, the train was due into Glasgow 5 mins ahead of the bus, so he wasn't going to be late for whatever it was.

The train stopped at Portlethen and he started panicking - why are we stopping? The Megabus Express doesn't stop! I can't be late! I pointed out it was a timetabled stop and he'd still be in Glasgow 5 minutes earlier than if he'd caught the bus.

Next stop Stonehaven, and he started melting down again. Why are we stopping?? And he did that Every. Single. Stop. all the way there. Howling / panicking / getting agitated. "Why are we stopping?? Why are we stopping??? I wish I'd caught the bus!!"

The train was running perfectly to time, but he kept going on about the Megabus Express not stopping, and how all these stops were "delaying" the train even though the train was faster than the bus.

7:30am

A man gets on the tram with an actual book box and proceeds to rap. Badly.

Oh Christ Lerram

I get he was stressed and all but I probably would have snapped by the 5th time