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To think this was the most cringe thing to overhear?

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EyelashBillie · 21/05/2023 12:57

Got a late train home last night and two men sat behind me talking loudly about drugs and were clearly doing coke off the pull down tray.

What was so cringe was how desperate they were for people to know that’s what they were doing:

OP posts:

SacreBleugh · 22/05/2023 19:48

TulipCat · 21/05/2023 13:27

I was once on a train and a group of teenagers so clearly wanted to shock me with their talk about the drugs they did at a recent festival. As I was leaving I said "It's such a shame that drugs are so tame these days, the mushrooms in my day were so much better. Yours sound so boring " I don't think they were expecting that 😁.

Oh dear.

Usetherightgearforthehill · 22/05/2023 19:49

OrbandSpectacle · 22/05/2023 19:18

Quite a confusing thread, but the message seems to be that if you peformance parent maths to your kids, they grow up able to manage their own drug deals.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Catlover77 · 22/05/2023 20:01

Speed is not coke

Modda · 22/05/2023 20:14

Catlover77 · 22/05/2023 20:01

Speed is not coke

That's what I said. Makes no sense they were saying they love speed if they were doing Coke. And no one loves speed. It's a filthy drug with a horrendous come down.

Inexpertjuggler · 22/05/2023 20:52

There’s a number you can text the British Transport Police on, they board the train at the next available stop and deal with stuff like this. I reported a group loudly making racist comments and it was dealt with quickly

Thepossibility · 22/05/2023 21:16

I don't mind people doing coke when I'm on the train. I'd actually rather that than the drinkers because they're more likely to leave me alone.
The paint huffers that used to freak me out.
It just seems so desperate.

kristie1988 · 22/05/2023 21:49

DojaPhat · 21/05/2023 14:04

That's very cringe. But nothing, and I mean nothing, makes me cringe more than performance parenting. On one occasion I had to leave the shop when a mother was asking her son how much change to expect back from the purchase of a packet of skittles.

made me chuckle 🤣

TTC79 · 22/05/2023 22:28

Cocaine just makes people obnoxious and cunty. It's the worst. I know lots of people that do it, mothers and fathers, like it's normal. Erm no, it's a class A cunty drug.

SimplyFed · 22/05/2023 22:32

DojaPhat · 21/05/2023 14:04

Nothing and I mean well not really nothing but more than a lot of other things makes me cringe more than the term performance parenting. How arrogant and self centred can you get to believe that anyone interacts in a particular way with their child solely to impress you?

eastegg · 22/05/2023 23:07

Mixedberrygenderfluidmuffin · 21/05/2023 14:12

Is it only me that would have informed the conductor and expected them to be arrested at the next stop?
Or is taking illegal drugs in a public place considered totally acceptable these days?

I think it is only you, but only because I don’t think there’s such thing as a conductor anymore. Haven’t seen a member of staff on an ordinary commuter train for years.

Inexpertjuggler · 23/05/2023 02:11

It’s the train guard, they’re on all trains. The reason they had industrial action the previous time was as they tried to cut back on the guards. Part of the guards job is passenger safety

Markovenchip · 23/05/2023 09:12

As it was a late night train, there would probably have been spare seats around, I would have just got up and moved, if that is not possible I would just concentrate on reading something, maybe sticking bits of tissue in my ears, still could hear them, but not so loud, it's their bodies and brains they're abusing, so that makes you better than them, you're unlikely to see the pair again, just try to put it behind you and move on !

RockyReef · 23/05/2023 11:56

Sorry I can trump your overheard cringey conversation with mine from a few months ago. I was sat quietly on the train in the late evening and the old man in front of me clearly didn't realise I was there (or maybe he did and didn't care). He proceeded to have a loud phone call with someone stating in detail how much he liked the thing she did last night, how he hoped they could that again next week and that he loved how much you get and more adventurous she was than his wife! This went on for some time and was toe-curlingly embarrassing but what was worse was immediately upon hanging up the call, he phoned his poor wife apologising about how sorry he was to have missed their anniversary last night, but he has to work late and stay away an extra night etc etc. Ugh.

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