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.

Uncomfortable

I accidentally sat in a seat that was reserved, and the person who's seat it was came along and ordered me put of the seat in a very rude fashion. I don't mind being asked to move, but he was over the top. He was only on the train for a couple of minutes, and got off at the next stop. He couldn't get off for a bit, as there was a lot of people getting off, so he proceeded to stand there and glare at me in a very intimidating way, I felt quite scared.

Few years ago - late and crowded train from London to Manchester. Couple get on at intermediate station to find that a chav couple are sitting in their reserved seats. Couple explain lady is disabled and cannot stand. Chav couple going on about "possession is nine tenths of the law etc." Refuse to give up seats. Train attendant called for and tries to remonstrate with the chavs. Their response is that there is nothing you can do to remove us physically. Train attendant disappears. Shortly afterwards he re-appears and the train had now halted at some shitty little station in the back end of no-where. In the meantime another passenger has given up seat to disabled lady.

Train manager informs chavs that he has called the transport police who DO have the power to arrest and physically handle them. In the meantime the train is going no-where. Police will arrest chavs and take them to the local station in the middle of no-where were they will probably be put into a cell until the desk sergeant feels like dealing with them. Could be several hours. Eventually they will probably be bailed to appear in court in the middle of no-where. They will then be stuck late at night in some shitty little place with no transport or accommodation. Wouldn't it be simpler to just move?

The chavs got up and walked out of the carriage to a lot of slow hand clapping and empty coffee cups thrown at them. Eventually the train started up again.

When the train attendant came to clip my ticket I asked him if the transport police ever arrived. He just smiled and winked at me, saying "Youve got to use a bit of psychology on these types."

I was on an Overground train in London just this morning and a woman's phone rang and she answered it on speakerphone. She was talking into it like a walkie-talkie, Apprentice style. It was very annoying as she was only two seats away from me and I was trying to read my book. I decided for once I was going to say something. I said "Can you take it off speakerphone or use earphones please?" but she ignored me.

After her call she sat there with her mask on her chin. A few minutes later she dropped a sweet wrapper on the floor so I said "You've dropped something". She looked at it, looked at me then said, "What did you say to me earlier?" and I said she shouldn't use her phone on speakerphone on public transport. She told me she didn't know it was on speakerphone when she answered it so I said "So just take it off speakerphone and hold the phone up to your ear when you have a conversation like everyone else". She then stood up, came right up to me, pointed her finger in my face and started YELLING that she was 64 years old and kept repeating "I'm not a child!" but the worst thing was she was spitting so much! I tried to tell her to put her mask on and stop spitting on me (while I was gathering up me belongings and trying to get the hell away from her) and as I rushed off to another carriage she carried on shouting after me "Just because you have depression don't take it out on me!" .
What a horrible, disgusting person. I guess I should have realised before I said anything to her that the sort of person to sit on a train broadcasting her phone conversation to the whole carriage without a thought to her fellow passengers, wearing a mask on her chin and chucking rubbish on the floor isn't the sort of person who'd react calmly to being called out on it.

Agh too many to have a worst.

Girl who shoved her elbow in my chest on a busy tube and then looked shocked that I tore strips off her after she admitted she did it deliberately.

Man and woman who objected to me leaning on the cushioned standing up bit of the tube because they wanted the whole pole to themselves. I asked them to pushing into me, they told me 'do u think I give a fuck'.

Woman called me a bitch at Tube station purely because she was late and I was walking, not running.