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.

One of the worst that springs to mind is when I was on a four hour train journey to stay with some family for the weekend.

I’d prebooked a table seat by the window and was happily contented. Then come the next stop and this lady with some sort of little dog in a carrier comes on. She comes to my table and just stands there staring. In the end end I look up and she tells me to move from her seat. I inform her that I’m in a seat I reserved and she was arguing and getting louder and louder. She then looks at her ticket and realises that her seat is actually the one next to mine. So now there’s loads of huffing, a dog carrier on the table and muttering for the next three hours that she ALWAYS books a window seat.

Well you didn’t that time! I’d have moved if I wasn’t then trapped but also I got a bit on the defensive because I knew I was right

I'm always amazed at the people who are so sure that you have taken their seat that they feel quite confident in just saying "Move". It happened to me the other day and of course, the bloke was in completely the wrong carriage. He didn't apologise though, just grunted and moved on.

A loud rough family on a coach back to the airport on the Canaries.Im working class but these were like Shamless goes on tour.
They ended up opposite me on the plane and before take off the mum was shouting and swearing that they weren't all sat together and "they'll have to identify us by our fucking dental records if this plane fucking crashes"
I asked to be moved as I'm a very anxious flyer and couldn't deal with that for 4 hours.

More revolting than annoying. Was getting a train one Friday evening and a family got on with young children, parents were obviously completely drunk and carried on drinking. The Dad then pissed into the luggage area all over the luggage!!! They got chucked off at the next stop and police were called.

Shameless

A few stops later, a man came and sat in the aisle seat - on top of my laptop bag. I squeaked something about please get up - my bag is on the seat and he smirked and told me that I shouldn't be taking up two seats, then.

There used to be someone on MN who posted that she did that whenever she saw someone’s bag on a seat, even if the train was empty. She was very proud of the fact she did it, despite the fact it made her come across as a monumental cunt.

I hate bags taking up seats as much as the next person but just asking someone to move it is far less confrontational than sitting on the fucking thing but achieves the same end result.

I hate bags taking up seats as much as the next person but just asking someone to move it is far less confrontational than sitting on the fucking thing but achieves the same end result

I agree. I just ask politely “ Excuse me, is this seat taken ? “ and 99% of the time people apologise and move it.

I was on a Christmas time train on a Friday evening from London about 10pm-ish. So about 95% of the people (including me) were drunk. Really, really busy train. Everyone crammed in. One guy even had a cello shoved between his legs so someone could sit next to him. There was one seat free. Man A came up and politely asked Man B if he could sit there. Hideous Man B went "no, sit somewhere else". He was awful.

Man C on the aisle next to me bought me some drinks that I really didn't need from the trolley. We proceeded to whisper (incredibly loudly like only drunk people do) about how rude Man B was.

Hideous Man B got up and left the carriage in the end to get away from us (probably). Hope he had to stand next to the toilets or something for the rest of the journey.

Two women sat on the fold down seats that used to be on the Northern Line years ago, gassing away to each other. Packed tube and one of them crossed her legs and it was so packed her foot kept hitting my leg constantly. I did some Paddington bear hard stares but she didn't look up but clearly knew what she was doing. I was bloody piseed off but too polite to say anything out loud. As soon as the train jolted, I moved my leg and hit her foot hard enough so her leg shifted position so she could not kick me anymore. She was like I was like without words. She knew full well what she was doing and my look to her was you kick me again I'll kick you and no mistake.

@shouldistop

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

I feel like a lot of societies ills can be solved by people just wearing bloody headphones 😂

It's more creepy than annoying and it didn't happen to me but a male friend of mine. He was travelling back to London from Scotland and he was sitting opposite another man on the train with a table between them. He said the man had long straggly hair and really long fingernails. My friend said the guy was staring and sneering at him and my friend would try and not catch his eye but it kept happening as he felt so uncomfortable that the man was staring and sneering. Then my friend glanced at the mans fingernails and the man then started to tap his nails on the table repeatedly whilst still staring and sneering. It was so intense that others around him has noticed and were looking concerned. My friend couldn't even move as it was a packed train and booked seats but he said the man was doing it for most of the journey.

Like that over and over again whilst sneering and staring and he only started doing it when my friend glanced at his nails. Very strange.

There's always some people watching to do. Ended up a bit doolally after one particular hour long journey with a with a couple of guys, on their way to score some stuff, smoking behind me.

Or there was the journey where some guys were comparing notes on their prison experiences. The driver, who knew them by name, stopped the bus and asked them to tone down their swearing.

Or there was the arsehole who slurped sweets, noisily, behind me, then had the nerve to start swearing at Ds2 for being chatty.

Though my favourite was a more lighthearted and less threatening one. Rather chatty, massive family, all been shopping together. A 10-ish year old girl munched her way through an entire cucumber because she gd to lose sight. I bet she had the shits something rotten, after that!

New Years Eve ( well actually New Years Day ) - had been working NYE so had to get the last train out of Waterloo to get to my parents . Packed solid at just before 4am , but I manage to get a seat next to a guy that is literally sweating vodka from his pores . The train keeps on filling up until you literally can’t get another soul on board . And they’re all pissed . The highlight was when one lovely woman demanded that she be given a seat just because she wanted one , and when refused , proceeded to scream chapter and worse . One guy told her to shut up before the whole carriage queued up to eject her, and she started screaming abuse from the other end of the carriage about how she’d taken 8 rocks of crack and she knew people who knew where he lived etc etc … and then he laughed at her again and she just went postal . At which point my drunken passenger leaned towards me , murmured “This is the seventh circle of Hell” - and threw up . On a pair of brand new suede boots . Mine.

I used to get the bus home to crap town from affluent city that went through even more affluent small town. The most annoying passengers were the ones who would board and loudly berate the driver for being late-it was bizarre, they obviously felt the driver was late on purpose, and not due anything else. People who don’t toot the bell then get in a rage when bus does not stop, not thanking the driver. Once got shouted at by a drunk women on the train for ‘smelling like a McDonald’s’, creepy men, people who ask when the next bus is while sat next to to table with phone in hand, people taking pets on the train, cats in cat cages esp hate it. Lazy bastards that only go one stop, people that don’t wash their hair so you have to stare at greasy roots.

Either the young woman on a train when the previous train was cancelled so the seat bookings had been cancelled who had her feet up on the seat next to her and refused to move. Train was rammed and every time she was asked if someone could sit down she just went “no” the guard came and told her that her booking for her feet was no longer valid and she started screaming and crying and drumming her feet on the seat.
Or the couple (more amusing) in first class who were already pissed, then ordered the free drinks. Except they weren’t and they got handed a bill for them. Arguing that they never paid for booze on virgin. “Well you wouldn’t.” Said the waiter”but this isn’t virgin” cue indignant rant from Darlington to Newcastle.

A couple on the cable cars gave me a load of abuse because the attendant had ushered me on to the cable car they were on as they wanted it for themselves.
I asked if they had paid the 80 odd quid to have it to themselves and then said they hadn't but I was still in the wrong for getting on.
I told them in no uncertain terms that they were absolute gobshites and if they ever have a female family member tell them how they were abused on public transport to remember this situation.
Thankfully, I can stand up for myself but imagine if they had picked on someone else!! Absolute arseholes.

My pregnant friend was punched in the face by some girls because she squeezed past them to get a seat after repeatedly asking them to move. Apparently, my pregnant friend was being racist for squeezing past them.

Once when I was pretty fucked up (constantly feeling suicidal, paranoid and extremely anxious) I had this thing where I had to sit at the back of the bus because only there did I feel any kind of safety. I just needed to be able to see everyone in case something happened (what I was worried they might do, I never quite decided).

Anyway, one day, the bus turns up, almost empty except for a couple of people in middle of the back seat. So what does mad* me do? Naturally, on a deserted bus, I push right past them to get to the window seat. Fucking genius, freaked them right out.

One good thing was it woke me up to the stupidity of what I was doing, this weird behaviour was so obviously unnecessary even I could recognise it as such despite my warped thinking patterns.

(*I use the term "mad" to apply to myself because it helps me deal with my own mental health issues. I don't wish to offend anyone else and don't call other people it, but I feel I have the right to call myself mad if it helps me deal with it.)

On a flight back from Dubai (sorry!). We were in the row immediately behind the emergency exit seats. The two women occupying them immediately reclined their seats and kept them reclined for the entire 7 hour flight even while food was being served. All requests to put them back from the cabin crew were ignored.

Years ago, on a train from London going home to Yorkshire. Man sat down opposite me and said "I'll keep you company" - I had my head in a book so kept on reading. He continued to interrupt my reading, talking to my constantly, even tapping the table in from of me to get my attention. I was 27, he had to be late 40s at least.

Eventually, he decided to ask where I was going. "I replied simply "Grandfather's funeral" (this was true) and put my headphones on. He still carried on talking to me.

Men just don't get it.

Once, on an otherwise completely empty train I was spread over a table doing a bit of work when someone came and sat opposite me in a blatent attempt to make it look like he was with me so he could dodge the fare as when the conductor came past he did his level best to make it look as though we knew each other.

I packed up, got off the carriage at the next stop, moved up a carriage and took great pleasure in telling the guard.

Other than that:

Drunk wankers
Loud music wankers
Hot food wankers
Refusing to move their bags when the bus/train is busy wankers

Not too much and any stupid tended to have a rather fun outcome.

The idiots on a long haul flight who got warned by the cabin crew that if they kept it up, they'd mention their suspicions of drug smuggling to the border police of the destination...whilst doing the impression of a glove puppet.

The idiot who got very calmly and quietly told by a mountain of a man that he either moved for the old lady who's seat it was or he'd be moved. (cue movement and a round of applause)

The extremely loud and aggressive guy in the carriage in front (yes, you could hear him). Cue a BTP welcoming committee at the next station.

On a hot day, I was sat next to a window with the top part open to let air in. An older couple got on the bus, and without saying a word reached over me to close the window.

Still kicking myself for staying quiet. I was just stunned by the rudeness.

I was sat on the back seat of a bus and a man sat down on the same seat but further up next to the window. He not only put his feet up on the seat facing him but literally rubbed all the mud off the soles of his trainers up and down till the seat was smeared with mud. I was speechless with shock.

@Crimeismymiddlename

I used to get the bus home to crap town from affluent city that went through even more affluent small town. The most annoying passengers were the ones who would board and loudly berate the driver for being late-it was bizarre, they obviously felt the driver was late on purpose, and not due anything else. People who don’t toot the bell then get in a rage when bus does not stop, not thanking the driver. Once got shouted at by a drunk women on the train for ‘smelling like a McDonald’s’, creepy men, people who ask when the next bus is while sat next to to table with phone in hand, people taking pets on the train, cats in cat cages esp hate it. Lazy bastards that only go one stop, people that don’t wash their hair so you have to stare at greasy roots.

People without cars still have to take their pets to the vets. Oh and those lazy bastards may just have a disability