What's the worst passenger you've been stuck with on a bus, train or plane?

Cavehill Red

Following on from the debate about the driver who threw the feckless mum and her yelling child off the bus in Britain, I wonder what's the worst passenger you've been stuck next to on a bus, train or plane?
Was it a yelling kid being ignored by their parents? Or was it some hugely obese person whose lard spilled over into your personal space? Some drunk gobsh!te? A thuggish little chav carving his initials into the seat with a flick knife? Someone with appalling hygiene whose stink had you choking? Or something else again?
What's the worst passenger you've been stuck with on a bus, train or plane?

(PS: Mod, any chance of a poll on this one?)

easyeason3

A man in his twenties sitting across from me on the train taking pictures of my boobies.
It was a fitted top, I'm top heavy & the train was rocking a bit so naturally they were jiggling.

He obviously wasn't well.

FearDark

easyeason3 wrote: »

A man in his twenties sitting across from me on the train taking pictures of my boobies.
It was a fitted top, I'm top heavy & the train was rocking a bit so naturally they were jiggling.

He obviously wasn't well.

And I still have the pics.

High 5 guys!

iChatz

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Following on from the debate about the driver who threw the feckless mum and her yelling child off the bus in Britain, I wonder what's the worst passenger you've been stuck next to on a bus, train or plane?
Was it a yelling kid being ignored by their parents? Or was it some hugely obese person whose lard spilled over into your personal space? Some drunk gobsh!te? A thuggish little chav carving his initials into the seat with a flick knife? Someone with appalling hygiene whose stink had you choking? Or something else again?
What's the worst passenger you've been stuck with on a bus, train or plane?

(PS: Mod, any chance of a poll on this one?)

Just your average child kicking the back of the seat on the plane! Wrecks my head :mad:

df1985

group of drunks on a plane to turkey. Im all for having a good time, been pissed on many a flight, but these were jumpin around, singing and roaring at the top of their voice.


(serves me right for going to turkey)

MistyCheese

Ronnie Biggs.

mooman

Some D4 head behind me on a plane to Italy, spent the whole 2 hours telling the stranger beside him about his new plan for a website. It was going to be bigger than Facebook from what I gather. The guy he was talking to didn't get a word in and I didn't get a wink of f*ckin sleep he was so loud. I'm getting cranky just thinking about him. It's guys like him that give dubs a bad name:D

jordan..

Northern Ireland football supporters on a plane coming back from Sweden.

A load of blokes with women who look like blokes acting like 5 year olds! :mad:

Oh_Noes

Anyone who puts their bag on the seat beside them. There should be notice on buses that you can't use a seat to put a bag on. It's the most thinly veiled way of trying to stop people sitting next to you.

AlmostFamous

iChatz wrote: »

Just your average child kicking the back of the seat on the plane! Wrecks my head :mad:

+1
I was on a flight this year and there was this child who kept kicking my seat. I got fed up and turned around and gave him a glare and his mother saw it. After I turned back around in my seat, I overheard the mother saying not to kick the man's chair to her child. I enjoyed the rest of my light.

In December, I was on a train back to Limerick after the Ireland Vs. Australia rugby match and there was an obnoxious drunk sitting near me and my friends who was spouting bs very loudly. He was very irritating.

I hate fat, sweaty and smelly people standing on packed buses near me when you see their sweat stains.

easyeason3

Oh_Noes wrote: »

Anyone who puts their bag on the seat beside them. There should be notice on buses that you can't use a seat to put a bag on. It's the most thinly veiled way of trying to stop people sitting next to you.

Take the hint.

c - 13

Huge, huge man on a plane. No spare seats to move to.
Looked kind of like this -

( ) / / <--- me and other guy being pushed to opposite side because he was so big

Oh_Noes

easyeason3 wrote: »

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Take the hint.

No, I will target you specifically and sit beside you if you have your bag on a seat

rossie1977

great idea for a thread, well where to start, anyone thats ridden public transport in the states will have a few stories i bet

for me, on one trip by bus (greyhound) from vegas to san francisco i was sitting in front of a guy who loved telling me his life story about who he had beat up, the prisons across the us he had frequented, the mexican guy with the bottle of tequila was out like a light about an hour into the trip. we picked up a hippy looking guy in sacramento who sat beside me and kept touching my arm and talking shi*e

on irish transport the infamous "philip" will live long in the memory, philip was a guy in his late 20s who looked normal but was obviously quite a few fries short of a happy meal

My name is URL

A big black woman breastfeeding her kid on the seat across from me. It was uncomfortable to witness at the time I guess but didn't do any lasting damage to my fragile mind

rednik

Travelling from Holyhead to London back in the 80s I was sitting opposite Mr & Mrs Jam. A family of 4, 2 adults and 2 children. They each had a black plastic bag with their clothes and an extra bag for the food and stuff. The mother made bread and jam sandwiches for all and in the meantime a boy probably 6 or 7 yrs old was spitting on the window and licking it up as it reached the bottom. As much as I have travelled I reckon I have met more obnoxious idiots travelling on this route than any other.

Nolanger

The one from special branch investigating me

easyeason3

Oh_Noes wrote: »

No, I will target you specifically and sit beside you if you have your bag on a seat

Fine. If you insist. But follow these rules:
1) Don't try & start a conversation with me, in fact don't even make eye contact.
2) Don't put your elbow on my arm rest. I was here first & if I have to elbow you in the face to claim my arm rest I will.
3) If I have a bottle of water it goes without saying that, no, you can't have any.
4) If I happen to have a magazine/ paper & I'm not reading it then don't ask to have a look at it.
5) If I'm looking through my phone then don't try & look at it out of the corner of your eye.
6) Don't even think for one minute that my shoulder can be used as a 'pillow' for you to drool, snot & cuddle into.

I think we should get on ok then.

Prof.Badass

I once got the dart at rush hour and the train was jammed. I managed to get my hand on a pole so i wouldn't fall into people each time the train stopped, then this sweaty old fat guy got on and basically stole my pole. Instead of just holding onto it somewhere like a polite person he leaned against the whole thing leaving me with no room. After a while i said to myself "**** this, i'm not gonna let him bully me out of a space on the pole" so i grabbed it when he was leaning up for a bit and then he leaned back. I expected once he felt my hand there he'd apologise and let me have some space but no, he just leaned back and stayed there with my hand trapped between his sweaty neck and the pole.

After a few seconds i just couldn't take it and gave up, pulling my hand free from the pole. I could still feel his sweat on my hand so i looked at it and it was actually wet with this guys neck sweat.

. Horrible.

Cavehill Red

FearDark wrote: »

And I still have the pics.

High 5 guys!

Pics or GTFO?

I should probably proffer my own travelling tales of co-passenger woe. Worst would be a tie between the troupe of tween disco-dancers from de nortsoide on the late flight back from Scotland who were being overseen by a couple of camp male dance tutors barrelling through Scotch to dull their own pain while the kids went totally ballistic, and the two school-age scummers on a citybus in Belfast loudly practising the sexual art of fisting at the back of the packed bus, mid-afternoon, right next to me.

eamon234

Some bastard on a plane from France sat in front of me and farted the whole way home he was a buddy of the air crew so I couldn't complain about him!

alwaysadub

I try to avoid public transport as much as possible,but the car was in the garage the other day so had to get the bus to Galway. It was packed so ended up sittin near the back, beside this ould farmer in his wellies and a good ould country smell coming from him too. There were a bunch of teenagers chatting away at the back of the bus. I'd my headphones on(don't get on a bus without them these days!) so they weren't annoying me really. The ould fella beside me though was going mad,kept muttering things and grunting to me and hopping around in his seat to give them dirty looks. He was nearly sitting on my lap at one stage! I was left sitting squashed up against the window all the way,cos he was sitting so arse ways to be able to stare at the girls talking. When the bus got to the terminus,he turned around and let a roar at them that they were too loud,which they weren't really. Poor girls were just frozen in shock for a second!

brummytom

First time I got the train by myself.

There'd been some hooha about terrorists getting arrested in Brum that weekend or something.


Sat down on the seat.
Big, evil looking Asian bloke got on. 'Stop being racist, Tom' think I.
He then takes out a Koran and reads it outloud.


I moved

Dudess

Oh_Noes wrote: »

Anyone who puts their bag on the seat beside them. There should be notice on buses that you can't use a seat to put a bag on. It's the most thinly veiled way of trying to stop people sitting next to you.

Yeah I remember some silly bint across from me did that and advised everyone who stopped that she was holding the seat for someone. She wasn't holding it for anyone - and it was a really jammed train.

lila44

brummytom wrote: »

First time I got the train by myself.

There'd been some hooha about terrorists getting arrested in Brum that weekend or something.


Sat down on the seat.
Big, evil looking Asian bloke got on. 'Stop being racist, Tom' think I.
He then takes out a Koran and reads it outloud.


I moved

I lol'd I would have also done the same!

djk1000

a big woman sat next to me on a bus, so it was a tight squeeze. Her arms were covered in sores and she constantly scratched them. Scabs and skin flakes kept falling on my arm. Disgusting experience.

Oh_Noes

easyeason3 wrote: »

Fine. If you insist. But follow these rules:
1) Don't try & start a conversation with me, in fact don't even make eye contact.
2) Don't put your elbow on my arm rest. I was here first & if I have to elbow you in the face to claim my arm rest I will.
3) If I have a bottle of water it goes without saying that, no, you can't have any.
4) If I happen to have a magazine/ paper & I'm not reading it then don't ask to have a look at it.
5) If I'm looking through my phone then don't try & look at it out of the corner of your eye.
6) Don't even think for one minute that my shoulder can be used as a 'pillow' for you to drool, snot & cuddle into.

I think we should get on ok then.

Nvm, I think your bus is a little shorter than the one I'm getting.

iChatz

AlmostFamous wrote: »

+1
I was on a flight this year and there was this child who kept kicking my seat. I got fed up and turned around and gave him a glare and his mother saw it. After I turned back around in my seat, I overheard the mother saying not to kick the man's chair to her child. I enjoyed the rest of my light.

In December, I was on a train back to Limerick after the Ireland Vs. Australia rugby match and there was an obnoxious drunk sitting near me and my friends who was spouting bs very loudly. He was very irritating.

I hate fat, sweaty and smelly people standing on packed buses near me when you see their sweat stains.

Yeah I was on a train a while back at this was at 8 in the morning and this guy started singing EXTREMELY loudly (terribly i might add) and started shouting at us "You are not immune to death" I mean what the hell :rolleyes:

Penisland

I was incredibly hungover on a pretty long plane journey and the guy in front of me pushed his seat ALL the way back so I very politely asked me to push it forward a little......told me to go **** myself.....so had the ingenious idea of turning on my air con all the way up and directing it forward at his head.......pissed him rite off for the whole journey

I had my fun and thats all that matters!! :D:D

kelle

I was a lone passenger on a London underground train carraige many years ago. At one stop, a man got on - and out of all the seats that were on the carriage he chose to sit on the seat directly opposite mine. He didn't look at me, in fact he looked spaced out. It seemed to take forever for the train to stop at the next station before I could change carriages.
Believe me, I'd have preferred a screaming child!

Alright

Flew on a connection flight from Dallas to Oregon a few years ago
and there was an ENORMOUS woman who must have bathed in very
strong perfume at the window seat and a regular size lady in the
aisle seat. I was squished and the smell was fierce! The woman was
so big that the arm rest couldn't be put down to separate us.
Woman at the window seat was eating babe ruth bars for the taxi
and take off. I was thinking that's your problem right there....nom nom nom :mad:
I asked to be moved but the flight was full.
An air hostess came over to me after the seat belt sign went off and
said there was another seat down the back. So off I went and there
two free seats beside each other. So I sit in, delighted, and as I
get settled this MASSIVE bloke taps me on the shoulder and says
I'm in his seat. He must have been off destroying the jacks or something?
I moved into the other seat and he spilled into the one
beside me. Worst flight I was ever on!

I learned later that, apparently, Dallas is one of the fattest Citys in America

GAAman

Penisland wrote: »

I was incredibly hungover on a pretty long plane journey and the guy in front of me pushed his seat ALL the way back so I very politely asked me to push it forward a little......told me to go **** myself.....so had the ingenious idea of turning on my air con all the way up and directing it forward at his head.......pissed him rite off for the whole journey

I had my fun and thats all that matters!! :D:D

Same thing happened to me but his chair was broken so it went further then it should have, was practically on my lap. When he told me to f*ck myself i started slammin my palms into the back of the seat as hard as i could and told him i would be doing it for the rest of the four hour journey

Oh and the bus was packed before anyone asks why i didnt just move

PeterIanStaker

Large family of sunburnt scangers on the same bus as me about a year ago. One had a toddler that wouldn't stop screaming and crying - it never occurred to its mother, who was about 17 max, to, I dunno, feed the child or whatever you do with them.

Another time on the train this hefty wench wouldnt stop slapping her kid for getting out of his seat. So glad I'd my Mp3 player.

445279.ie

On a ten hour flight back from San Fransisco, the guy next to me starting snoring before we even got in the air. To make it worse, I'd left my ipod in my checked in luggage and my tv wasn't working :mad:

Got a few free drinks from the air hostess who felt sorry for me

Galadriel

Some old woman sitting beside me picking her nose and flicking it, I learned a valuable lesson....NEVER sit down stairs, the old and the odd rarely make it up the stairs.

Kiwi_knock

Worst was when I was on heading to Ethiopia. It consisted of two plane journeys and the connection between the two flights was only 30 mins. Soon after take off from Dublin one of the lads I was travelling with got sick all over himself and me. Worst of all the air hostess would not help us at all, all they did was laugh and not offer a towel to clean it up. So when we got off the flight we had no time to clean up as we had to go straight onto the next flight. So we both reeked of vomit for over 10 hours and in a confined space like an airplane it was horrible.

nachoman

Whenever i'm on the bus and beside me or a seat away you can smell the BO off some people, I feel like gagging for the rest of the journey.

owenc

When i was on a flight from Rome to stansted, it was raining nuts and the aircraft was shaking everywhere, so the pilot went up higher, it was all fine and grand, then a person was sick so moved down near me, they started to vomit all over the floor, so we went down lower again and they vomited even worse, it was such a disaster!

Cheap Thrills!

A sex tourist chav decorated in Borstal inks from ManchestUHHH who sat beside me for the 11 hours from Holland to Bangkok. He'd been to Thailand 20 times in 2 years, not for the scenery. He wouldn't have got a look in ordinarily if you get me.

He was as drunk as a lord after half an hour and was constantly ringing the bell for the hostesses to bring him more and more drinks. Eventually they started to ignore him.

He then started calling them names and shouting. He was horrible, The worst part was everyone thought I was with him

Kivaro

brummytom wrote: »

First time I got the train by myself.

There'd been some hooha about terrorists getting arrested in Brum that weekend or something.


Sat down on the seat.
Big, evil looking Asian bloke got on. 'Stop being racist, Tom' think I.
He then takes out a Koran and reads it outloud.


I moved

To Ireland?
That was a bit extreme, wasn't it.

catbear

I was on an overnight bus in Burma and an old guy a few seats across kept munching fried critters, puking them up and then gorging again until sick and did this all night long. I think he was particularly fond of the fried spiders, thank god I didn't have to sit next to him.

Another time I got stuck on a bus with this guy who was big into Michael Moore and even if you agreed with him, you were wrong. I would have perfered the old guy munching his spiders, that was a long trip.

Mr Keek

Was on a late bus a few years ago after late study in college and some middle aged lady who was quite tipsey sat beside me, she was grand until she started to talk to me.

Happened to be reading 'Mens Health' and for the whole trip this lady unaware of how loud she was went on and on about how lads mags were no different to womens mags, all about fat loss, fashion etc. She then went on the tell me and the whole bus for that matter that I wasn't fat, how I shouldn't be so self conscious and not to worry about these things etc. Was mortified!

As we got closer into town, she really took a shine to me (bearing in mind she's rather tipsey and talking REALLY LOUDLY) and started asking me out and telling me that I was a fine thing and begging me to go out for a drink with her, even inviting me to her place for a drink at this stage she was rubbing my leg and all!

All I could see was people the reflection of the windows laughing, and the people in the seat adjacent looking, even the driver had a comment for me when I was getting off the bus!

....if only she was a bit better lookin' or if I had a few drinks too, she wasn't puck!

ddef

i was once sitting next to this overweight guy on a plane who was reading a NUTS magazine. a few minutes later he went off to the toilet for a good 5-10 minutes with the magazine.....
when he got back we shared a look of mutual understanding of what went down.

damonjewel

Well first of all let me say I won't count the countless amount of times an obnoxiuous drunken skanger which gets on the Luas Tallaght line at Jervis st and gets abusive.

Worst for me was a very very jumpy nervous guy on a flight from San Fransisco to Las vegas who kept on reminding me that these things go down! and at the slightest whirr or crackle he was shouting what the fyck and calling the stewardess. Twat

sean corcoran

i was on a bus from hawkins street to sandymount and a homeless man got on, he sat down the back upstairs and i was sitting upstairs down the front. the smell this man was giving off was so bad the only way to describe it was a man who washed himself in slurry while using a dog turd as a bar of soap, and to make it worse he had a bag of decomposing meat with him that was dripping liquid,all over the place. the smell on the bus was so bad that the bus driver got sick and had to get everyone on the bus to get off, he kicked the man off the bus opened all the windows for 15 mins, got back on the bus sprayed a full can of lynx he bought in a nearby shop into the bus then we waited another 10 mins, the driver said there was nothing he could do so we had to get on the bus again with a putrid smell lurking around.


just try top that

southsiderosie

I used to take public transport every day to school (and later to work) in Chicago (and New York and Madrid), so I've seen my share of screaming matches, fistfights, buskers, egg-throwing, car-clearing BO, etc. But maybe the most memorable bus trip I took was in Nicaragua. Most mass transport is in the form of old church buses from the US, and most churches get their buses used from public school districts. So basically travelling from city to city means riding on a 20-year old third-hand bus designed for 10 year olds. Given that I am almost 6 feet tall, this is a problem.

Anyway, the typical bus ride includes a number of annoying passengers. First is the travelling medicine salesman who distributes vitamins, pills, and creams for inspection, all of which are promptly returned. He fights for space in the aisle with large backpacks, random gunnysacks full of god knows what, and the ladies selling fruit and bagged soda with ice, which are nice and cold, but will give you the ****s. Inevitably there is a small woman with large glasses who will stand in the middle of the aisle and begin lecturing in a loud voice about "el diablo" (the devil), waving a bible for emphasis. After her sermon is over, she will begin soliciting donations as well. At some point, the bus will stop in the middle of nowhere for no apparent reason, and since it is 35 degrees and all of the windows are open (no air conditioning on the used schoolbus, silly!), it will attract every fly in a 3 mile radius. Not only will babies start crying, but if you are out in the country, the roosters tied to the roof of the bus will start crowing along with them. And when the bus starts back up again, before you get to your final destination, you will witness at least three near-death accidents involving a family of five all riding on one bicycle.

Luno

Everytime I used to get the bus into town a man would get on and sit behind me with a hedge cutters which was completely rusted and he'd make snipping noise with it right above my head. It freaked me out for sure anyways!

Mr Keek

Used to get the Eurolines coach from Galway to London when we were back at school, the journey was hell & back but so cheap, got off the ferry at Hollyhead and back on the bus all set for a 9 hour trip to London, few 'pikeys' would always be in the bus too but never any problems until one round, the were changing the childs nappy on the coach and firing the dirty nappy on the floor in front of us. They also thought nothing of spitting inside the bus too.

Driver had enough of it and called ahead to the policy station, bus pulls up at Milten Keynes and a Police Landrover and Vans waiting. They were taken off and arrested on the spot. Never laughed as much, the scene they made got the whole bus chatting to one another!


Also had to witness on another trip, some fella fingering his girlfriend unaware that during the night, the reflection from the cabin light on the windows is as good as a mirror!

ddef

The worst was when this a$$hole on the bus asked me to shine his shoes all because I'm black. thank god my sister recorded it as evidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4OnhnvczTk

Zombienosh

sean corcoran wrote: »

i was on a bus from hawkins street to sandymount and a homeless man got on, he sat down the back upstairs and i was sitting upstairs down the front. the smell this man was giving off was so bad the only way to describe it was a man who washed himself in slurry while using a dog turd as a bar of soap, and to make it worse he had a bag of decomposing meat with him that was dripping liquid,all over the place. the smell on the bus was so bad that the bus driver got sick and had to get everyone on the bus to get off, he kicked the man off the bus opened all the windows for 15 mins, got back on the bus sprayed a full can of lynx he bought in a nearby shop into the bus then we waited another 10 mins, the driver said there was nothing he could do so we had to get on the bus again with a putrid smell lurking around.


just try top that

almost had the same story today. a random bum was let on a sat beside me, the smell, oh my god, the smell. I had to get de-loused leaving the bus.

cats.life

ddef wrote: »

i was once sitting next to this overweight guy on a plane who was reading a NUTS magazine. a few minutes later he went off to the toilet for a good 5-10 minutes with the magazine.....
when he got back we shared a look of mutual understanding of what went down.

thought you were going to say that he was thinnnner when he came back:D:D