Commuter idiocy

The stupidity of commuters never ceases to amaze me. It's one thing to dash in between closing doors of the tube train and get stuck flailing like a bug on fly paper when your back pack gets trapped (which I just don't understand, when the underground trains run at 2 or 3 minute intervals anyway?!), but this woman takes the biscuit. Not only did she risk her own life by idiotically deciding to run between platforms over LIVE rails carrying 750 volts of electricity when there's a perfectly good foot bridge right NEXT to her, but she also risked the safety of the poor guy who took it upon himself to drag her up out of the way of the on-coming train before she was turned into rail related mincemeat. Was it THAT important she didn't miss her connection, that she had to risk being struck by a high speed train?! Seriously?!



I have, in the past, had rants about how much I hate certain transport related retards who do utterly stupid things such as stopping dead at the bottom of escalators and causing near pile-ups, or gormless commuters who stand in the road waiting for buses so that cyclists like myself are forced into fast moving traffic to get around them, but here's a few more to add to my list of complaints:

• If you HAVE to stand by the doors on the tube, get OFF the train to let people off! You ARE allowed back on again! Otherwise you're likely to get a combination of tuts, elbows in ribs and possibly a few sharp muttered words under breaths (because we're British and avoid confrontation at all costs unless we're REALLY pissed off) for being a total pain in the ass obstruction.
• If you're going to get on a bus, take your damn back pack off! I'm sick of getting smacked in the face by people wobbling down the aisle with a rucksack slung over one shoulder.
  
• Deodorant people! Find out what it is and USE IT! Amazes me how many people are totally unaware of this wonderful invention and end up gassing poor short asses like myself... it's truly unpleasant to be armpit height to the majority of the public and be forced to stand next to someone who smells like they haven't bathed in a week when they're holding onto a rail on a hot and humid tube train.
  

Anyway, I got to this point and, due to the lack of recent experience of the tube, came to a blank... so I decided to ask my colleague...

Sweetpea says:
im stuck on my blog post
whats annoying on public transport??
haha

Butch disgruntled scotsman says:
the heat, sweaty armpits, rude people, dirty trains, the noise, delays, lack of space, expensive...
shall I go on?

Sweetpea says:
haha
just wrote the sweaty armpits thing

Butch disgruntled scotsma says:
engineering works, unpredictable, people playing music on loudspeaker, drunken people, tramps, beggars, people shoving others, BIG BAGS and SUITCASES on packed trains!!
BIKES
(I hate bikes on trains)

Sweetpea says:
ive written about the bags thing too
thats F*CKING annoying

Butch disgruntled scotsman says:
whats with people going on holiday at RUSH HOUR
that is a really really stupid thing to do

Sweetpea says:
the number of times i get smacked in the face by rucksacks when im sitting down onb the bus

Butch disgruntled scotsman says:
yep
bob threats, they're not too great either
*bomb, even
bobs don't tend to bother me too much

Sweetpea says:
HAHAHAHA

Butch disgruntled scotsman says:
:-)

Sweetpea says:
i may just blog this conversation....
HAHAHA
can i can i?!

Butch disgruntled scotsman says:
haha, as long as you anonymise it!

Sweetpea says:
yeah of course!
what shall i call u?
nickname
disgruntled scotsman?

Butch disgruntled scotsman says:
lol, something butch

Sweetpea says:
HAHA
how about butch then?
HAHA

Butch disgruntled scotsman says:
LOL!

Sweetpea says:
im blogging this bit too by the way
hilarious
MUAHAHAHA

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