Rude People on the Luas

elmyra · 11-10-2007 02:22AM #1

Have just recently started at a new college so having commuted by car for 3 years I've switched over to taking the Luas. Have been really shocked at how rude people are. I get on at Balally in the mornings - early enough on the route that you can just hop on and it's not too packed but too late to get a seat. Once it gets to Windy Arbour the tram is packed though. The other morning a businessman pushed his way on at Cowper (I think) when the tram was already fairly packed and then when more people tried to board at Ranelagh loudly announced "It can only fit so many people, it's not a Serbian camp!' I was really shocked tbh. I know it's a pain in the ass when you're pressed up against people you neither know nor wish to know, but in fairness that guy pushed his way on and everyone is trying to get to work/college etc. It's not their fault that they live at Ranelagh etc and have no hope of getting a tram that has any decent amount of space.

I'm also really surprised at how few people bother to give up their seats to the old/pregnant women etc. I also hold out for a minute to see if anyone else does because I have a million medical problems that mean standing for the journey isn't a good idea, but inevitably end up giving my seat up when nobody else does and end up feeling awful. I really hate getting stares from people when I'm too sick to stand for the journey too, they automatically assume that you're a mannerless student who wouldn't do a good deed.

The worst part of the whole experience though is that I'm a complete short arse and I can't reach the overhead handrail and sometimes people wont move to let you hold one of the floor-to-ceiling ones so you end up trying to balance your way in to the Green all the while being the exact height of everyone else's mingin' armpits.

I really miss driving with the radio and an apple and the heaters on on a rainy morning! I have to say I don't prefer drivng because public transport is awful which is the usual complaint, I just think that other people leave a lot to be desired....

AARRRGH · 11-10-2007 02:25AM

I know.

Sometimes I wonder if the basics of society broke down, for example, if there were no more Gardai, how ****ed we'd all be.

It seems there are some good people in the world, and then there are loads of really selfish, depresses-me-to-be-human people.

The Bollox · 11-10-2007 02:35AM

Ireland just changed too quickly and the people are finding it hard to cope. that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. you will be very hard pressed to find a steriotypical Irish person: friendly and accepting. now we're a bunch of xenophobic a$$holes

Jesus Wept · 11-10-2007 02:56AM

elmyra wrote:

It's not their fault that they live at Ranelagh etc

Ah tis..

Aard · 11-10-2007 03:47AM

If you get a seat, consider yourself lucky and keep it. You're not obliged to give it away, and complaining that others won't/don't do it isn't helping anybody. If you're really short then say 'excuse me' loudly or alternatively just barge your way to a handrail; no point compromising your safety just out of politeness. It's a 15 minute journey - don't let it get you down.

Tar.Aldarion · 11-10-2007 05:39AM

LUAS LUAS DRINKY DRINKY, GOD IS A DJ. hmal

mikemac · 11-10-2007 07:21AM

Whats worse is when you try to get off and people just start piling in.:mad:
Jervis is a great example of this

People pratically throw themselves in the door in the hope of getting a seat but if they let the exiting passengers out first, they might have more chance

Solar · 11-10-2007 07:44AM

Elmyra, Your guilty of the very thing you hate others doing......
If your sitting down, then you hate it when people look to you to give up your seat but when your standing you hate it when people are sitting down and not giving up their seat. Slight double standard there I think.

Also, I get on the Luas at Tallaght and lots ( and I mean lots ) of men get on and don't take a seat so others ( old woman, pregnant woman etc etc ) can get a seat.

Mossy Monk · 11-10-2007 08:47AM

The public is full of arseholes. The end.

luckat · 11-10-2007 09:10AM

Elmyra - You're so right. When we don't help each other - give a seat to someone who's pregnant or old or tired or weak, treat each other with kindness and courtesy - it's like sand in the gears. Things work better when we're kind.

Dyr · 11-10-2007 09:21AM

dunno about the luas but people on packed buses who think the seat beside them is for their poxy manbag or whatever are becoming all to common, they need to die horribly.

the_syco · 11-10-2007 09:33AM

Bambi wrote:

dunno about the luas but people on packed buses who think the seat beside them is for their poxy manbag or whatever are becoming all to common, they need to die horribly.

Sit down regardless. If it's in your way, put it on the seat behind you:D

Me, I just barge onto thetrain, myself. I'm tall, and I use it to get onto the train. F**k everyone else. I'm not going to be late just cos there's no room (note: there won't be room on the train untill the 9:47am train. I get the 7:30am train).

elmyra · 11-10-2007 09:38AM

Solar wrote:

Elmyra, Your guilty of the very thing you hate others doing......
If your sitting down, then you hate it when people look to you to give up your seat but when your standing you hate it when people are sitting down and not giving up their seat. Slight double standard there I think.

Also, I get on the Luas at Tallaght and lots ( and I mean lots ) of men get on and don't take a seat so others ( old woman, pregnant woman etc etc ) can get a seat.

I couldn't give a crap if nobody gives me their seat. If I don't get a seat when I get on then so be it, I'm not pregnant or old and I don't look like I need it. I'd just like to be able to get within a non-arm-breaking distance of a handrail.

SimpleSam06 · 11-10-2007 09:39AM

Do you not find the horrible discomfort of the Luas is alleviated by the opportunity groping of young wans though?

Driver 8 · 11-10-2007 09:41AM

The Luas is the tool of the devil.....when you don't get a seat

Been using it every week day for just over two years and it tends to bring out the worst in people. Then again, maybe those people are just arseholes all the time. All I will say is, in my experience, and certainly not wanting to tar everyone with this brush, the more "shirt and tie" the people, the ruder they are on the Luas (and indeed, train)

Not including everyone in that! Just observing that the worst mannered people I've encountered on it have been well-dressed and...professional looking

Varkov · 11-10-2007 09:43AM

The morning trains from mynooth out are pretty bad. I get on at the stop after mynooth and the seats are usually allready full :mad: But by the time it gets to coolmine its like a rugby scrum when people try to get on.
Had this arsehole standing beside me on the way in today, breathing very heavily into my face, making me feel physiclly sick.
So I say to him rather loudly "If your not gonna brush your teeth, would you stop panting in my face" He chose to ignore me, but he started breathing through his nose :rolleyes:

Onikage · 11-10-2007 09:48AM

SimpleSam06 wrote:

Do you not find the horrible discomfort of the Luas is alleviated by the opportunity groping of young wans though?

Welcome to Japan

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/archive/news/2007/02/20070210p2g00m0dm026000c.html

They fight back

SimpleSam06 · 11-10-2007 09:50AM

Onikage wrote:

Welcome to Japan

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/archive/news/2007/02/20070210p2g00m0dm026000c.html

They fight back

Actually I was talking to Elmyra.

Dyr · 11-10-2007 09:54AM

the_syco wrote:

Sit down regardless. If it's in your way, put it on the seat behind you:D

Me, I just barge onto thetrain, myself. I'm tall, and I use it to get onto the train. F**k everyone else. I'm not going to be late just cos there's no room (note: there won't be room on the train untill the 9:47am train. I get the 7:30am train).

I get on at the terminus so its never a problem for me, but im a self righteous fecker and i only have to see the c**t in front of me hogging two seats while others are standing and i'll have to resist the urge to punch em in the back of the head for the whole journey.

yesterday on the number 4 some dube wearing D4 type was taking up both double seats, feet up on the one facing him and his two bags on the other two seats. the bus was half empty but i still wanted to take a picture of him just to annoy him (and post it on boards).

And then throttle him

elmyra · 11-10-2007 09:55AM

SimpleSam06 wrote:

Do you not find the horrible discomfort of the Luas is alleviated by the opportunity groping of young wans though?

Eh...no for a number of reasons, least among them the fact that I'm not into teh wimmins.

Hellm0 · 11-10-2007 09:56AM

Bambi wrote:

dunno about the luas but people on packed buses who think the seat beside them is for their poxy manbag or whatever are becoming all to common, they need to die horribly.

My manbag has more worth to me then the comfort of the slackjawed excuses for humanity who might take the oportunity to sit beside me if it wasnt placed neatly on the seat. Peasants should know their place!

mickoneill30 · 11-10-2007 09:57AM

I've been getting Dublin Bus for the last year. When did coughing all over the back of someones head become acceptable? Each time it's happened to me I've had a brief (loud) chat with the person responsible and it's like it never occured to them. I used to get the bus from about 1994 - 2001 and it never happened to me once. Last year I got a job that meant the bus was handier and it's happened about 6 times (with the odd sneeze thrown in). What's changed?

Archeron · 11-10-2007 10:08AM

mickoneill30 wrote:

I've been getting Dublin Bus for the last year. When did coughing all over the back of someones head become acceptable? Each time it's happened to me I've had a brief (loud) chat with the person responsible and it's like it never occured to them. I used to get the bus from about 1994 - 2001 and it never happened to me once. Last year I got a job that meant the bus was handier and it's happened about 6 times (with the odd sneeze thrown in). What's changed?

Did you grow a target design into your hair in the meantime?

mickoneill30 · 11-10-2007 10:10AM

Either that or my head looks like a hanky.

Washout · 11-10-2007 10:19AM

micmclo wrote:

Whats worse is when you try to get off and people just start piling in.:mad:
Jervis is a great example of this

People pratically throw themselves in the door in the hope of getting a seat but if they let the exiting passengers out first, they might have more chance

getting a seat at the Jervis stop??? ROFL, your lucky to get on there in the evneings

big b · 11-10-2007 11:09AM

The Bollox wrote:

Ireland just changed too quickly and the people are finding it hard to cope.

Agree 100%

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 11-10-2007 11:25AM

Varkov wrote:

Had this arsehole standing beside me on the way in today, breathing very heavily into my face, making me feel physiclly sick.
So I say to him rather loudly "If your not gonna brush your teeth, would you stop panting in my face" He chose to ignore me, but he started breathing through his nose :rolleyes:

Yeah, what an asshole, breathing no less... tbh I think you should have made a bigger scene.

mise_me_fein · 11-10-2007 11:30AM

This is not a new phenomenon, a large percentage of southside Dubliners have always been what a regular person like myself would call pr!cks.

thelordofcheese · 11-10-2007 11:30AM

elmyra wrote:

The other morning a businessman pushed his way on at Cowper (I think) when the tram was already fairly packed and then when more people tried to board at Ranelagh loudly announced "It can only fit so many people, it's not a Serbian camp!' I was really shocked tbh.

really? i found that to be pretty funny.

I'd have more respect for the guy trying to stop 40 people cramming themselves into a space designed for about 6 than i would for anyone baaaawing about how mean he was to people.

Hrududu · 11-10-2007 11:33AM

Anyway you can walk from the Luas stop in Ranelagh to Stephen's Green in 15 minutes.

Gazza22 · 11-10-2007 07:36PM

I understand, i know what it's like *Trying* to peacefully go to college during rush hour on the Luas.

Common courtesy for some people just seems to go out the window when they board [board by barging through people] the Luas. I don't blame people getting seriously *issed off and having a go at people at times.

Rude People on the Luas

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