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

Spanish Eyes · 19-06-2010 07:51PM

I usually say "I'm deaf" pointing at ears, when someone invades my privacy on a plane. I genuinely have a hearing impairment following meningitis, but I can hear reasonably ok.... when I want to!

It usually shuts them up. I absolutely hate that, people talking about themselves non stop, uninvited. No social skills whatsoever.

Sadly my worst experience was on a bus going to town (Dublin). A man was sitting in the seat in front, quiet enough, and he fell into the aisle. Everyone thought he was drunk. I kind of knew it wasn't that, ambulance called, someome tried rescuscitation, but the poor man died there and then. I had the shivers for ages after that, god help him.

galah · 19-06-2010 07:52PM

a group of teenage boyscouts, from Germany, singing holy Christian boyscout-y songs ALL the way from Germany to Ireland on the bus (one reason I'll never take the Eurolines bus again. Ever.)

ordinary_girl · 19-06-2010 08:23PM

When I used to have get the bus at peak times in the morning the smell of BO from some people was unreal, particularly in Winter when the bus would be sweltering. Also had the usual smelly drunks who probably hadn't had a wash in days.

The worst was on a plane though (because you can't escape!). The guy sitting beside me kept hitting on me, for a start it seemed he didn't have a clue how to actually hit on a girl and really wasn't my type. And every few minutes he had to run to the toilet because he got plane sick. I mean, really, plane sick when there's absolutely no turbulence? I was stuck there for three hours when he tried and failed to coax my number out of me while simultainously hitting on me and looking pervy. I think uncomfortable would be an understatement. Ugh, I shudder at the memory.

FearDark · 19-06-2010 08:23PM

Got stuck beside a sweatbag from London to Waterford once. Not your average sweatbag, you know the ones that actually smell fruity! Smell of armpits and stinky runners was just horrendous. And because it was a packed bus we all kinda had to stick to our origional seats so there was no escape from this stink lagoon creature.

Kiwi_knock · 19-06-2010 08:27PM

Rest_Energy wrote: »

The worst was on a plane though (because you can't escape!). The guy sitting beside me kept hitting on me, for a start it seemed he didn't have a clue how to actually hit on a girl and really wasn't my type. And every few minutes he had to run to the toilet because he got plane sick. I mean, really, plane sick when there's absolutely no turbulence? I was stuck there for three hours when he tried and failed to coax my number out of me while simultainously hitting on me and looking pervy. I think uncomfortable would be an understatement. Ugh, I shudder at the memory.

Sorry I get nervous when talking to a pretty girl. Plus I was not getting sick the whole time I was in the toilet. Probably best you did not shake my hand at the end

SquirrelFace · 19-06-2010 08:27PM

A woman sitting at the front of the bus took off her shoes and socks and started pulling the dead skin off her feet with her long pink talons. It was all thrown on the floor like wood shavings and all while she had her phone on speaker and was yelling at it in whatever language (she was a foreigner so i didnt bother say anything,i wouldve got the no understandey thing)...

IT WAS MANKY!

Also got stuck beside a guy who had Charles Manson as his phone screensaver (he was texting so i saw it, it was on a full bus so he was practically in my lap) and his phone went off with an air-raid siren everytime he got a text.

Caoimhín · 19-06-2010 08:32PM

I got the bus from Amsterdam to Dublin once. Through France, the chunnel, and into Victoria station in London.

When I got on the bus to Holyhead and the ferry i found myself stuck next to an Olympic class mentalist skanger. He regaled me with stories of joyridon, fighten and roidin.

A horrible, horrible 7 hours.

cynder · 19-06-2010 08:32PM

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/136782/Bus-driver-tells-toddler-his-England-kit-is-offensive-/

19-06-2010 08:51PM

grindelwald wrote: »

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/136782/Bus-driver-tells-toddler-his-England-kit-is-offensive-/

And of course the follow-up to that story which shows it's a complete fabrication: http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Bus-row-mother-branded-liar/article-2277819-detail/article.html

owenc · 19-06-2010 08:53PM

grindelwald wrote: »

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/136782/Bus-driver-tells-toddler-his-England-kit-is-offensive-/

Another example of them stupid foreigners trying to rule our country losers!!:mad: Them and their stupid human rights.

Miss Lockhart · 19-06-2010 08:55PM

Worst was on Dublin Bus: a guy in his 40s masturbating - it was the back seat and I was against the window and he was beside me.

Only other bad one that sticks in my mind was a really obese man on a plane who wanted to lift up the armrest between us. I'm usually too shy/polite to say anything if people are annoying me or whatever, but I just had to refuse this time!

Mayoegian · 19-06-2010 09:01PM

My name is URL wrote: »

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

Unnecessary, and a generally inappropriate detail there.

Max Power1 · 19-06-2010 09:07PM

Mayoegian wrote: »

Unnecessary, and a generally inappropriate detail there.

un necessary, un needed PC brigade comment there.

lucozader · 19-06-2010 09:20PM

the guy behind me vomited on the floor and the vomit went all over my cloth bag that was on the floor

owenc · 19-06-2010 09:33PM

Mayoegian wrote: »

Unnecessary, and a generally inappropriate detail there.

:rolleyes:

Cormac2791 · 19-06-2010 10:53PM

In Liverpool, on the way to the airport, we chose the 2nd last seats on the bus.

Then these ones sat in the back row. For the entire journey one of them was getting sick, some of it even landing on me

Later at the airport, while we were in the plane, we were delayed for about half an hour waiting for passengers. Turned out to be them!

I just prayed they wouldn't sit behind me for the flight to Belfast! Luckily, god was on my side!!

Ann22 · 19-06-2010 11:09PM

Smelly people and screaming kids are the worst. The most unusual passenger I've encountered was when I was in London with my boyfriend (now hubbie)...on the tube a few years ago. I had a migraine and had visual disturbances so it was really surreal.

A woman was sitting facing us....she was wearing a little denim jacket...and nothing underneath, not a stitch..just big boobs hanging there. She was black so it wasn't very noticeable unless you looked directly. Very odd..thought it was my eyes playing tricks but it wasn't....according to my oh, bare boobs out for all the world to see:o.

unknown13 · 19-06-2010 11:26PM

It was recently two large teenage girls on a bus who never shut up and they were loud as well. They got off not far from the place they got on but the bus went around the world to get there. Lazy annoying teens for you.

Dull and Boring · 20-06-2010 12:22AM

One time I was sitting near a guy on a bus who spent the whole journey talking to his reflection in the window about the Xfactor.......it was a long journey:(

giggsy664 · 20-06-2010 01:01AM

Dull and Boring wrote: »

One time I was sitting near a guy on a bus who spent the whole journey talking to his relection in the window about the Xfactor.......it was a long journey:(

Oh John, your brother Edward sure is one crazy guy :pac:

Seloth · 20-06-2010 03:47AM

On the train once,me and my friend heading back from the city to our town.

These two woman,one late 20's early 30's the other her mother about late 40's 50's.

Younger Woman the whole way down yelling at her child as she was crying.She told the child to shut the **** up,saying how she cant take anymore of the childs ****,thats she's brazen and not to shower her any attention.The older woman then was like"Roshel shes only 2 for petes sake,leave her alone will you " "No Maaam..Shes brazne out...Sarah shut the **** up..I swear mam I cant take her anymore!"

Was like that for the entire 25 min journey.If she showed the two year old soem comfort than maybe it would have stopped crying the poor thing

vicecreamsundae · 20-06-2010 04:06AM

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.

i do one better. bag on the seat AND whenever the bus stops to let more people on i pretend to be asleep. nobody wants to wake you to ask you to move your bag when there are other seats available.
Tha's right smelly, keep on walkin'....

as for worst people to sit with, i usually just have smelly people. the last time i was on the bus for dublin i saw this guy out the window hugging goodbye to his girlfriend, and they both looked nice and clean so i wasn't worried when he approached my seat [bus was pretty full, i couldn't justify the pretend to be asleep trick] but he stunk. just like he hadnt done laundry in a year, not sweaty, just musty and a bit like... okay a bit like old sex liquids. there , i said it. would have been bearable if he'd just kept still but he kept rustling around every two minutes and id get another waft of him. UGH.
alcoholics are no fun either, another stinky bunch.

when i was commuting to work, there was this man with some kind of mental disability who took a shine to me and always tried to sit with me. I hated that. I used to have my ipod in anyway, so i would try to look out the window and just ignore him and hope he realised i was listening to music and stop talking to me, but he'd ask the same questions over and over until i'd eventually take off my headphones and say "oh sorry i didnt hear you there". and he had the most horrific laugh and would laugh at everything.
why does it always feel mean when you give out about someone with a disability, even though you're not making fun of them?

i just don't like strangers talking to me on busses!
[i started pretending to be asleep and it worked :cool: ]

plein de force · 20-06-2010 06:25AM

i was on the plane to america a few months ago
i was sitting in a row of 4 seats it was american couple,then me, then a fat oaf
the american couple next to me kept on like full on sucking the face off each other numerous times throughout the flight and made really loud moans, weirdos
then the fat lummox beside me kept picking his nose and eating it and digging me in the ribs because his fat arms spilled over to my side, it took 3 times of me asking him to keep his arm away from me for him to actually control it

i got the one aer lingus transatlantic flight that didn't have a free seat i could move to.

rayjdav · 20-06-2010 07:01AM

On honeymoon in Italy a few years ago, going by train from Rome to Napoli. Decided 1st class as it was honeymoon:)
Sat down and facing us, respectful looking business man sat down, opened laptop and then.....
For the next coulpe of hours, in Italian, swearing out loud Turrets style. I know not PC, but given the quietness of the carraige, it was so funny. Me and wife, and rest of the carraige, spent trip staring out window trying not to p**s ourselves.

Cavehill Red · 20-06-2010 08:07AM

vicecreamsundae wrote: »

i do one better. bag on the seat AND whenever the bus stops to let more people on i pretend to be asleep. nobody wants to wake you to ask you to move your bag when there are other seats available.
Tha's right smelly, keep on walkin'....

Try that on my crowded bus or train, and not only will I take your bag and sling it at random down the carriage, I'll sit next to you and prevent you from going after it, you selfish mong.

master_chief · 20-06-2010 08:50AM

Some bloody bast#$%$ on the plane back from Heathrow to Dublin farting silent farts all the way in. I knew who does it, where the smelll is coming from after 2-3 farts. Other people beside us smelled that too, but probably nobody had courage to mention to him. I eventually said, is that you ****ting yourself all the time mate, would you f... stop or have a crap in the toilet? That was bit harsh but I couldnot care, smell was unbearable and he was doing that all the time every 5 minutes. Guy became red, 100% embarassed and said something about stomach problems, he went then to the loo, came back and I think smell stopped, landing was in 10 mins anyways. I was just furious.

LowOdour · 20-06-2010 09:10AM

on a bus from sligo, i was listening to music when i got this stench and felt something at my feet. A guy, from about 6 rows back puked and it rolled all the way down to my feet

stovelid · 20-06-2010 09:11AM

Re: people who won't move a bag from an empty seat.

I just ask once and if I get an excuse, just tell them you're going to sit on top of it and it gets moved pretty sharpish.

sparkydee · 20-06-2010 10:07AM

stovelid wrote: »

Re: people who won't move a bag from an empty seat.

I just ask once and if I get an excuse, just tell them you're going to sit on top of it and it gets moved pretty sharpish.

While I totally agree with you on that point I get a bus to work everyday. It's the local college bus and at this time of year it's pretty much empty apart from the same 9 or 10 people who use it to get to work. I get on at the first stop and there is this woman who gets on later in the journey who has to sit in the first two rows of seats. It really annoyed me one morning when the bus was pretty much empty and she sat beside me. This was before I realised that she is for some reason unable to sit beyond the first two rows. every morning she does it. It's only a small thing but it wrecks my head! But I make sure to sit well down the bus now:)

Cheap Thrills! · 20-06-2010 10:27AM

stovelid wrote: »

Re: people who won't move a bag from an empty seat.

I just ask once and if I get an excuse, just tell them you're going to sit on top of it and it gets moved pretty sharpish.

Me too. I'm very direct 'Can you move your bag please' -I don't see a problem with embarassing these selfish types.

No-one has ever said no yet. Looking forward to the day they do. Unless the bag contains a transplant organ it'll be getting moved sharpish whether Miss/Mr 'Me-me-me' likes it or not.

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

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