AIBU - commuter rage

[mamajong]

I work in London 4 times a week and so commute. My commute is quite tight time wise so I am.often rushing to work work or the train. AIBU to feel absolute internal rage towards other people's obliviousness to those around them?

People on mobile phones who walk slowly in the middle of the path so everyone is forced to walk slowly behind them. Not having tickets ready and not moving aside when theres a massive queue, making everyone wait while they fumble around, stopping at the bottom of the escalators to look at their phone making it difficult for people to get off, playing things on their phone out loud with no headphones, man spread on the train, not moving down the carriage on the tube so others can get on...every day I am surrounded by pure selfishness and it really gets me down how manners and consideration of others seems to have gone out of the window. Am I just old and miserable or do others feel this way too?

What a ridiculous and pointless comment. My commute is such a small part of my overall great life, I certainly dont rush everywhere, just to catch my trains. Your comment actually made me laugh its so daft, so thanks for that at least 🤣

There are recognised times when there's likely to be a large number of commuters going into London; this is reflected by the large increase in cost of you want to travel during the morning rush hour. Not as bad in the mornings, probably because of the costs, but people actually planning to leave town during the rush hour when they aren't time constrained by most commuters is pure thoughtlessness.

Those saying to get a train at a different time, apart from constraints like dropping children off in the mornings or collecting them by a certain time at night, there's still many many organisations who have mandatory attendance times. Yes you could get into town for 7am - then spend 2 hours wandering around until it's time to start. No point in getting going early at work, as you aren't going to be allowed to leave until 5 or 5:30pm anyway. In that kind of environment the only way to avoid the rush hours is to spend around 13-14 hours out every day (depending on the length of the commute). Basically completing your trip in by around 7:30, and not leaving your workplace until after 6pm at the earliest, with an hour commute each way that's 6:30am to 7:30pm out of the house.

Add a tube journey in, and you need to leave plenty of contingency time to get to the station to ensure you don't miss your once an hour train home.

I deliberately get up super early on my office days to avoid commuter rush hour.
It is still busy (with people like me I suppose) but I always get a seat and we all know what we're doing, no loud calls or tiktok videos, and especially no fannying about with tickets and phones like in your OP. Makes the commute a breeze.

I wonder why more people don't do it, but at the same time I tell nobody for fear of our little secret getting out!

Can I add one?

I stopped wearing heels when my commute got a LOT longer. (2hrs one way). Wearing heels slows me down and adds an extra 15 mins to that 2hrs.

So I'll be bloody damned if I am going to get stuck behind someone who is wearing heels and end up walking at a high-heels pace anyway!! arrrghhh!

WFH all the way

True other than the bottom (or top) of an escalator. That’s incredibly dangerous so yes people absolutely need to move out the way in that situation.