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Etiquette on public transport

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  • #62
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    valoren wrote: »
    Idiots who don't understand the physics of bags with shoulder straps.

    Oh this times 1,000,000! You are wearing a bag on your bag be aware of your new size - don't swing around and hit me in the face!


  • #63
    Tiddlypeeps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭Tiddlypeeps


    Dog of Tears wrote: »
    This thread has served some function.

    What function is that? Making me aware there are some very strange petty people out there or something else?


  • #64
    Baron Kurtz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Baron Kurtz


    Grown adults with backpacks on busy transport. Just f@#k off. How old are you? 4? They always seem to squash you right in the face with the damn thing and they usually are completely oblivious to this. Take it off and rest it at your feet!


  • #65
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Baron Kurtz wrote: »
    Grown adults with backpacks on busy transport. Just f@#k off. How old are you? 4? They always seem to squash you right in the face with the damn thing and they usually are completely oblivious to this. Take it off and rest it at your feet!

    As someone who resents having to carry a laptop with me, in a car the size of a canal-barge, I often wonder what the hell do they have in those things?? :pac:


  • #66
    The_Captain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    Hi guys, someone help me out here, I seem to have wandered into the Joe Duffy show accidentally


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  • #67
    FBWT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭FBWT


    People who sit in pre-booked seats! Got the dogs abuse on one of the Cork-Dublin trains last week. I had surgery 2 weeks ago on my wrist, I'm still in a sling. I knew it would be standing room only and I didn't fancy standing for nearly 3 hours with only one functional arm, so I booked a seat. Got on in Mallow only to find some wan sitting in my seat, asked her to move (politely) and she told me in very colourful language where to go. Had to get one of the inspectors to get her to move! She even had a cut off him and she only shut up and moved after he threatened to throw her off for being abusive.


  • #68
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    FBWT wrote: »
    People who sit in pre-booked seats! Got the dogs abuse on one of the Cork-Dublin trains last week. I had surgery 2 weeks ago on my wrist, I'm still in a sling. I knew it would be standing room only and I didn't fancy standing for nearly 3 hours with only one functional arm, so I booked a seat. Got on in Mallow only to find some wan sitting in my seat, asked her to move (politely) and she told me in very colourful language where to go. Had to get one of the inspectors to get her to move! She even had a cut off him and she only shut up and moved after he threatened to throw her off for being abusive.

    Was your name above the seat? Apparently there's a constitutional right that allows oiks sit in seats they haven't pre-booked if there's no name above the seat......even if the punter who booked it shows up with a ticket showing they have the seat reserved :D

    You're lucky she didn't call the Guards ;)


  • #69
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Ok I just want to apologize because I didn't intend to cause anyone offense and make it seem like I was being petty or whinging for nothing.

    To make it clear, I don't care if you put your bags on a seat or spread your legs if the bus/train/Luas is quiet. It's when you do it and the bus/train/Luas is busy that I have a problem with it and I really don't see what's wrong with that.
    It doesn't offend me but it is annoying.

    Sorry again for any offense caused.


  • #70
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    This thread is quite illustrative of the apparent "bipolar" nature of modern society, and the way it swings wildly between psychopathic fury over minor alleged slights, and profuse grovelling apology for fcuk-all! :pac::pac::pac:

    Play nicely kids, or Dad'll put the train-set away!! :D


  • #71
    FBWT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭FBWT


    Jawgap wrote: »
    Was your name above the seat? Apparently there's a constitutional right that allows oiks sit in seats they haven't pre-booked if there's no name above the seat......even if the punter who booked it shows up with a ticket showing they have the seat reserved :D
    ....

    Yep, name was on the display above the window and I showed her my ticket with the seat number but she wasn't having it :/ ...people are strange.


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  • #72
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    I was on a very quiet Luas one Saturday morning, loads of empty seats. (My bag was NOT on the seat beside me).
    Someone chose to sit beside me. I thought that was strange.


  • #73
    Steodonn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Steodonn


    jimgoose wrote: »
    As someone who resents having to carry a laptop with me, in a car the size of a canal-barge, I often wonder what the hell do they have in those things?? :pac:

    Until recently I did that. Two bottles of water 2 lunches maybe something more if I wasn't going straight home after, a book, change of clothes sometimes.

    I travel into the city center every day and it would 8-14 hours before I got home sometimes


  • #74
    Steodonn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Steodonn


    FBWT wrote: »
    Yep, name was on the display above the window and I showed her my ticket with the seat number but she wasn't having it :/ ...people are strange.

    Did she call the garda ?


  • #75
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    marnie d wrote: »
    I thought this thread would be about people picking their nose beside you, snorting loudly, teenagers cackling loudly or someone shouting down their phone, not a whinge about someone with their bag on the seat beside them when there are other seats available. I do this all the time, if I have bags of shopping I'm not going to crowd them all on to my knee unless someone needs the seat beside me. And I have had someone make a point of insisting sitting beside me when there are loads of seats free, all that does is make me get up and move away from the weirdo at the next stop. From reading this thread I bet it was a boardsie.

    I always throw my bag on the seat next to me. I take it down when the bus/train starts filling up. My definition of filling up is when there's no two seats next to each other. I figure no-one would want to sit next to me whilst there's two seats next to each other.
    Jawgap wrote: »
    Was your name above the seat? Apparently there's a constitutional right that allows oiks sit in seats they haven't pre-booked if there's no name above the seat......even if the punter who booked it shows up with a ticket showing they have the seat reserved :D

    You're lucky she didn't call the Guards ;)

    I've only ever booked a few times. The first time I got on the train and there were no names displaying. I found my seat and there was a guy in it. I'd booked one next to the wall so I could use the powersource for my laptop and get some work done. I explained this to him and he wouldn't budge. Someone a few seats up actually stood up and said "Here you can take the inside one, I don't mind sitting on the outside one"
    Didn't matter in the end because the WiFi was down too.


  • #76
    Mr.Buzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭Mr.Buzz


    LynnGrace wrote: »
    I was on a very quiet Luas one Saturday morning, loads of empty seats. (My bag was NOT on the seat beside me).
    Someone chose to sit beside me. I thought that was strange.

    I just usually think it's creepy, when it happens. Or that the xy person who decided to sit next to me wants to chat and that, my friend, is a big no-no.


  • #77
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Well I think it goes without saying if there's enough seats so as you don't have to sit next to someone, happy days. But, when I get on the train it's the second last stop and it's always packed. If I see two seats - one free, or one with some scrote with their bags on it, trying not to make eye contact, I'll ask the one with the bags to move her ****.

    I get the train from maynooth<->castleknock for work. Going there it's the first stop so I usually get a seat. Going back it's normally full at castleknock but clears after a few more stations.

    There's two things that annoy me. The first is actually a bit of a double standard.
    Someone getting on who stinks of smoke. I say this is a double standard because I'm an occasional on/off smoker. When I'm not smoking I hate the smell of smoke.
    The second is someone putting on makeup next to me. It gets everywhere and then I end up being elbowed a lot.


  • #78
    ballsymchugh
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    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Fat people who stand blocking the single doors at the ends of a tube carriage.

    People with huge quantities of luggage on rush hour trains

    People with large numbers of children on rush hour trains

    People who eat smelly food on rush hour trains

    People who read broadsheet newspapers on rush hour trains, bonus points if it's something pretentious

    People who move hell and high water to try and get a seat, then only go one or two stops

    People who won't get up from the outside seat on a bus when you're trying to get off with multiple large shopping bags

    People who need to rummage through their bag/pockets for their Oyster/debit card/ticket at the ticket gates when there's a huge queue behind them



    Getting off the train like you're Paul O'Connell breaking tackles helps too :pac:

    you should probably start avoiding rush hour trains!


  • #79
    Deranged96
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Deranged96


    Imagine if all these people with big lists of social etiquette landed up in the same carriage of a train.
    I'd say the median age would be 62 and they'd all be throwing filthies at each other while breathing very quietly so no one can accuse them of being rumbustious.


  • #80
    poisonated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭poisonated


    Jawgap wrote: »
    How about getting the next bus?


    No because the bus I take comes every 30 minutes. It doesn't normally happen but I'm not gonna have reheated McDonald's because the smell might annoy people nor am I going to wait in the rain for an extra 30 minutes or even more sometimes.


  • #81
    MrMorooka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭MrMorooka


    Eh, I spread my legs out. It actually hurts to keep them in a closed state for the 45 minutes or whatever- it is actively tensing a muscle in my outside thigh. It's because I'm unfit and my legs are flabby wide yokes, but still. It does actually cause me a lot of discomfort to have someone sit next to me.


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  • #82
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    MrMorooka wrote: »
    It's because I'm unfit and my legs are flabby wide yokes

    Then maybe you should do something about that, and it would benefit both yourself and others :pac:


  • #83
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Hollis Hurlbut wrote: »
    Thou shalt not sit opposite or beside me when the bus/train is practically empty.

    It's just weird.

    I will now sit beside you deliberately because I know it annoys you. Even if the train\bus is completely empty.


  • #84
    Tiddlypeeps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭Tiddlypeeps


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    Ok I just want to apologize because I didn't intend to cause anyone offense and make it seem like I was being petty or whinging for nothing.

    To make it clear, I don't care if you put your bags on a seat or spread your legs if the bus/train/Luas is quiet. It's when you do it and the bus/train/Luas is busy that I have a problem with it and I really don't see what's wrong with that.
    It doesn't offend me but it is annoying.

    Sorry again for any offense caused.

    That's a totally reasonable stance to hold and I don't think anyone in this thread was saying other wise. Anyone who expects their bag to take priority over another person is a dick plain and simple.

    Myself and others have posted in response to the people saying they go out of their way to make someone move their bag or close their legs or whatever even if their are plenty of seats... because how dare they be comfortable... or something.


  • #85
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Mr.Buzz wrote: »
    I just usually think it's creepy, when it happens. Or that the xy person who decided to sit next to me wants to chat and that, my friend, is a big no-no.

    Haven't you realised that the weirdo in this situation is you?


  • #86
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    another one. GAA supporters. On Saturdays & Sundays when i work if there's a match on the train is packed with GAA supporters. I realise they have every right to use the train too but it's annoying being crammed in with a load of random culchies who drove to maynooth and then got a train. Except for those days I'm generally assured a nice quiet journey.

    One day I was getting the train to work and the platform was full of GAA supporters. When the train pulled in everyone surged towards the door. Then a brief argument broke out between two guys because the doors weren't opening.
    "Push the button"
    "You don't need to. they're automatic"
    "Why would there be a button if it's automatic?"
    "For emergencies"
    "The button's lit up"
    "it'll open in a minute"
    "you sure?"
    "Yeah I've got this train before"
    "It's not opening. Maybe it's broken"
    Someone at the back shouts "Just push the fcuking button"


  • #87
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Three things...

    Teens who like to 'share' their crappy tinny music out of their phone with everyone.

    The shower who insist on putting their feet up on seats, not caring whether or not there's dog crap on their shoes.

    Chewing gum plastered to undersides of tables and seats.


  • #88
    Ranchu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭Ranchu


    Easily the most common one is people boarding trains and trams not letting passengers off. It drives me insane and happens nowhere else. Stand to one side for a few seconds and there won't be a scrum at the door.


  • #89
    bsloepro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭bsloepro


    People smoking the sh1te out of a fag just before getting on the luas and then breathing cigarette fumes all over the shop - the stink is something else.
    People pushing onto the luas as people trying to get on - lot of the time auld wans who (appear to) care about nothing else except their own ass.
    People jumping the queue (aulds again a lot) to tag off - like we're all queing up there and some auld wan just pushes her leap card in front of the machine regardless of whos at the top of the queue.


  • #90
    DJ WIPEOUT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭DJ WIPEOUT


    I have used public transport for approx. 10 years before making the decision to cycle instead. I have been cycling for the past 10 years and can honestly say that even with the LUAS in close proximity to where I live, I will opt for my bicycle over the LUAS hands down for all of the reasons mentioned above (and realising that gas guzzling modes of transport are in the majority of cases a lazy way of life unless the distance is outrageous or a person is disabled/immobile). It's a 10k distance I have to cycle each way to work, I have to shower and have my shirts ironed and dropped off in advance once a month by car etc. (lots of hassle I hear!) Except when there's snow, ice or strong winds, I wouldn't have it any other way! Go gazelles!


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  • #91
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    DJ WIPEOUT wrote: »
    It's a 10k distance I have to cycle each way to work, I have to shower and have my shirts ironed and dropped off in advance once a month by car etc.

    It's not that f*cking bad. Jesus, I'm sure the money saving aspect is a factor too.


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