Etiquette on public transport

AudreyHepburn · 17-02-2015 09:14AM #1

If this is in the wrong place apologies and please move!

I can't be the only person who regularly finds herself wanting to tear her hair out at the way people behave when using trains(or buses or Luas as the case may be)

Just this morning I had to nearly push my way onto the train because people insist on cramming around the door when there's plenty of space down the aisles. Then they shoot filthies at anyone who asks them to move down.

I've missed trains many times because people refuse to move.

Then when getting off again the woman behind me kept pushing against me trying to get past.... not going work sorry! The same happens when you walk from one platform to another. Then you nearly get thrown onto the tracks as people board the train.

What's the hurry....even if the train sitting there leaves there'll be another in five or ten minutes. And if you are late well that's you problem. It's no cause to act like you own the station!

Sorry slight rant there but people's inability or unwilling to use public transport with a bit of decorum and decency really grates on me!

yumyum10 · 17-02-2015 09:16AM

That's why I don't shower,. Smell keeps the people away.

Grays Sports Almanac · 17-02-2015 09:18AM

Thou shalt not sit opposite or beside me when the bus/train is practically empty.

It's just weird.

Cookie_Dough · 17-02-2015 09:20AM

Yep, buses are also like this!! When you're trying to get of people insist on trying to push on then throw filthy looks when I need to get off the bus. It just causes delays

jimgoose · 17-02-2015 09:20AM

Get yourself an old SS Sturmbannführer uniform, complete with cap and monocle, and wear that out-and-about. Works wonders.

Jawgap · 17-02-2015 09:21AM

yumyum10 wrote: »

That's why I don't shower,. Smell keeps the people away.

Farting also works - or at least it punishes people for standing too close!

On a more serious note - you only have to look at the thread about IE reservations in the Commuting forum to realise that there is a significant proportion of the public transport travelling population who don't do things like 'etiquette' and 'manners' - they know what they are 'entitled' to!

murpho999 · 17-02-2015 09:34AM

People who put their feet on seats on the DART really annoy me.

Also, lately, more and more people are playing their music through their crappy speakers on their phone. WTF is all that about and how do they think that is normal behaviour is beyond me.

kneemos · 17-02-2015 09:42AM

Think of it as the Serengeti...survival of the fittest.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 17-02-2015 09:43AM

Oh god, where to start.
- food on public transport. Nobody wants to see you milling into fried chicken like a wild animal. Crunching your way through a bag of crisps. Slurping your drink. Licking your fingers.
- aul ones who sit on the outside seat and have their bags on the inside. They usually try avoid eye contact too, and the train absolutely heaving with people.
- aul ones on the platform who waddle past you with their elbows out, determined to get on the train before you.
- people having really long private conversations quite loudly.
- people listening to music too loud.
- people who are surprised to find out they have to pay for their bus fare and stand for ages picking out coins holding up everyone else behind them.
- those tiny spaces for your legs on some of the Seats on the bus, wtf? I wear 26inch leg jeans, I have little legs, and I'm really uncomfortable. Can you imagine how taller people feel? Wedged into a seat like that.
- when people try talk to you
- when I have to sit near a kid
- getting groped and spat at on the luas
- junkies on the luas
- smellies on the luas
- aggressive people pushing into me when the luas is clearly full
- fat aul ones who take up two seats
- kids whining for seats
- people with buggies during rush hour
- people asking for change on the luas. Change starts within yourself!!! Junkie bastardjaws.

I would elaborate but I've to go wash my hair

Captain Chaos · 17-02-2015 09:45AM

I always go to the people that have their bag on the seat beside them and sit down even if there are other free seats. It's just a f u right back at the person.

AudreyHepburn · 17-02-2015 09:48AM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

I always go to the people that have their bag on the seat beside them and sit down even if there are other free seats. It's just a f u right back at the person.

This!

I also make a point of going to the men who insist on doing the splits in their seats. I get that there is a reason men sit like they do but no man can be so well endowed that he can't tidy himself up when some-one needs a seat!

Other peeves include people who dump their bits and pieces in the aisle and those who sit sideways on their seats blocking both the seats and the aisle. Also those who allow themselves to swing and wobble into or fall on top of you with every move the train makes....it's not that hard to hold yourself still!

Also, and I know I'm small and you need to hold onto something, but I think I may hit the next person whose armpit I end up standing under. Can you not stand just behind or in front of me ?!

Desolation Of Smug · 17-02-2015 10:02AM

kneemos wrote: »

Think of it as the Serengeti...survival of the fittest.

Public Transport section is the Wildebeest crossing the river..The Crocodiles are rolling past in their cars.The Lions are looking down from their Helicopters. All the Hyenas are in their vans..:D

CruelCoin · 17-02-2015 10:03AM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

wear 26inch leg jeans, I have little legs, and I'm really uncomfortable. Can you imagine how taller people feel? Wedged into a seat like that.

33 inch leg here.

Pretty much everything other than my car is a disaster.

Sinister Kid · 17-02-2015 10:03AM

Eating cheese & onion crisps & breathing heavily in your face...

Grayson · 17-02-2015 10:05AM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

This!

I also make a point of going to the men who insist on doing the splits in their seats. I get that there is a reason men sit like they do but no man can be so well endowed that he can't tidy himself up when some-one needs a seat!

So you look around and search for the person who's sitting comfortably and then decide to make them uncomfortable.

Klassy.

sabat · 17-02-2015 10:07AM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

I also make a point of going to the men who insist on doing the splits in their seats. I get that there is a reason men sit like they do but no man can be so well endowed that he can't tidy himself up when some-one needs a seat!

So you'd have no problem with men sticking their hand down their pants and doing a reverse 'Silence of the Lambs' with their junk so you can have an extra few inches of space?

Ihatecuddles · 17-02-2015 10:09AM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

I always go to the people that have their bag on the seat beside them and sit down even if there are other free seats. It's just a f u right back at the person.

I think that makes you more of a tool. How do you know they won't move it when it gets busier? Its hardly in the way if there's other seats.

Sinister Kid · 17-02-2015 10:12AM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I think that makes you more of a tool. How do you know they won't move it when it gets busier? Its hardly in the way if there's other seats.

Exactly, I would always move my bags if it gets busy & the seat is needed. I actually find it very creepy if there is loads of available seats & somebody comes & sits directly beside me.

conorhal · 17-02-2015 10:13AM

Dear teenagers,

If sombody says, 'excuse me', that roughly translates into human as; 'please can you move so that I can get by to get off the bus'.
NOT:
'Could you stare at me blankly and unmoving until I'm forced to press my way through a crush of gormless idiots, cluttering up isle because they don't want to sit with the plebs, and feeling for all the world like some kind of paedo, frottage fetishist from the Tokyo underground'...

Oh, and don't you dare shoot me a filthy if I 'accidentally' step on your bags that have formed an assault course for me to traverse as I fight my way to the front, just because I might as well be invisible to you, doesn't mean I can pass through you like a frigging ghost or something.

sunshine and showers · 17-02-2015 10:13AM

The worst people are the ones who won't get up and move for the old person/pregnant lady/person on crutches.

Get up ta fúck!

AudreyHepburn · 17-02-2015 10:16AM

Grayson wrote: »

So you look around and search for the person who's sitting comfortably and then decide to make them uncomfortable.

Klassy.

I don't go out of my way to do it obviously....but if I am looking for a seat when the train is busy and see a man taking over the seat beside him by doing the splits then yes I'll go for that seat....in the same way as I would go for a woman whose bag is taking up a seat.

TheBeardedLady · 17-02-2015 10:16AM

Ranting and Raving forum, please.

Captain Chaos · 17-02-2015 10:17AM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I think that makes you more of a tool. How do you know they won't move it when it gets busier? Its hardly in the way if there's other seats.

Whenever I have a bag with me I put it at the floor by my feet even if I was the only person on the train/bus. Propping your bag on a seat beside you just screams "I'm an inconsiderate pr1ck" regardless if you actually are on are not. Just common sense etiquette imo unless it's a suitcase with a million euro cash in it.

It's also a passive intimidation tactic so no one will sit beside you regardless of your later intentions.

BizzyC · 17-02-2015 10:17AM

^^ Worse is when someone else tries to jump in on those seats.

I've actually had to stop people when I stand up from a seat to point out the heavily pregnant lady behind them.
For some reason it's usually women who do it too.

Ihatecuddles · 17-02-2015 10:17AM

Sinister Kid wrote: »

Exactly, I would always move my bags if it gets busy & the seat is needed. I actually find it very creepy if there is loads of available seats & somebody comes & sits directly beside me.

The fact that some people get a sense of satisfaction from it is really pathetic. I don't even do it, but the day that I brag about sitting beside someone so they have to move their bag, is the day you can put me out of my misery and smother me in my sleep.

somesoldiers · 17-02-2015 10:19AM

People who sit on the outside when the window seat is free annoy me so much. I normally get on the train 20 mins early in the evening so get to see the train filling up.

People with laptops- sit on outside, plug the laptop in at the window across the other seat
Students- sit on aisle/window with bags on seats. No move is made no matter how full the train gets until asked and then there's a huff over the inconvenience
"I am keeping the seat for my friend" heads- eh feck off no reserving
One lad got on one evening as the tran was filling up, dropped his bag beside me and feckd off to the toilet before i could protest. The next 10 minutes were spent saying "sorry some lad just dropped that there, sit there if you want". He tried to do it again the following week and got short shrift.

Ireland is a nation of selfish hoors who don't give a crap about anyone other than themselves. It's time to get ignorant with the ones that do it, it makes me feel better, though I may get arrested by the train robocops one of these days

Fr_Dougal · 17-02-2015 10:22AM

Lots of passive aggressive behaviour on public transport judging by this thread.

I don't think some people know the proper definition of etiquette, it's supposed to convey good manners and breeding.

mad muffin · 17-02-2015 10:27AM

What is this publiqué transporté one specks ov?

eeeee · 17-02-2015 10:28AM

Being in a queue of a load of people getting on the bus. There is a change/leap queue and a card queue. Someone elbows on and stands, motionless in the card queue on the bus until they het a break in the change queue to pay, blocking everyone in the card queue getting on and holding everyone in the coin queue up. Trivial but the self-centered lack of consideration kills me. I don't know how they don't feel the burning shame of holding everyone up.

Music on bus/dart/luas/train. I don't want to hear your ****ty tinny crappy music. Again the sheer lack of consideration kills me. How can they think everyone wants to listen to their music? :mad:

Guys with legs spread out. You're not that big. Close them in and let people sit down beside you ffs.

People not getting up for elderly/pregnant/infirm/crutches etc. People. Again I don't know how they can sit there and watch them wobble about. Grrr.
I'm gonna stop now before I get angry!

Stheno · 17-02-2015 10:32AM

Have none of you access to the ranting and raving forum?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 17-02-2015 10:38AM

Considering there's plenty of overhead storage and compartments at the end of each carriage for luggage and bags, if someone wants the seat next to them for the bags they can also pay the 26.15 fare that I had to pay when boarding the train. I have no problem asking people to move their **** and they can look offended all they like, if they've one ticket, they have one seat.

Etiquette on public transport

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