Etiquette on public transport

Mister Vain · 17-02-2015 10:06PM

I'm so glad I have a car.

neil_ · 17-02-2015 10:15PM

Rezident wrote: »

In Germany they have signs up to stop people listening to loud music, Irish people are very ignorant about this - and so many people have those AWFUl sh1tty apple earphones that blare the music outwards, get a proper set of earphone or turn it down you inconsiderate idiots.

Eating on public transport is disgusting too, the smell, the sound, there will be some inconsiderate prick munching a packet of crisps on the train every single day. Without fail. No respect.

In fairness some guy eating a packet of crisps is really not intruding on your life so heavily that it needs to be legislated against

thomil · 17-02-2015 10:26PM

Rezident wrote: »

In Germany they have signs up to stop people listening to loud music, Irish people are very ignorant about this - and so many people have those AWFUl sh1tty apple earphones that blare the music outwards, get a proper set of earphone or turn it down you inconsiderate idiots.

Token German guy speaking up, here. You'll get that problem on every single commuter train, subway, tram or S-Bahn in Germany on a regular basis. I had a 90 minute commute by train and tram in Frankfurt for 5 years, and you were bound to get a few of these "individuals" on just about every train.
It was better on the long distance InterCity trains, or on the high-speed ICE services, probably because the offending demographic couldn't afford the tickets as easily.

Zebra3 · 17-02-2015 10:54PM

Was on Dublin Bus about two weeks ago, and some Polish bird thought it was grand ranting in to her phone for about half an hour to somebody.

Ffs.

A short phone call, text somebody, or wait til you get off the bus.

Nobody wants to listen to people endlessly on the phone regardless of what language they are speaking.

Sheepy99 · 17-02-2015 11:39PM

You're all a bunch of whingers(look at me, whinging)

Cop the **** on. People eating food on a bus/train, that one has to be the worst thing to complain about.

As long as they're not slinging it around the floor and on windows like a chimpanzee then i can't find the fault with it.

Loud music, and roaring down the phone, those I can see why people would take issue with, but the other, just nahhh ye cretins

Pinch Flat · 17-02-2015 11:41PM

I had to sit through an episode of East Enders two scobes were watching on what appeared to be full volume on a tablet in the seat next to me.

Yeah Irish people have on average no respect for others personal space - visually or aurally.

NachoBusiness · 17-02-2015 11:46PM

The fcukers that annoy me are the ones on the Luas that will start sighing and elbowing people that are in their way when they want to get off. They expect people to have eyes in their arses and somehow know that they wish to get off. How about saying 'excuse me' or 'sorry there'. In jy experience people are only to happy to oblige others and have often seen people jump off the Luas and back on just to let others out.

Far too many precious people about thinking they're too good to ask others to let them through, or to sit beside someone as they eat a sandwich. You see these fcukers all the time. Someone sits beside them and they squirm in their seat as if they are above having to sit beside them. No doubt start whinging to their other halves when they get home that some person with filthy jeans touched off them.

The fcukers who act like you are looking at them also need a good kick in the arse. Harrumphing from twenty fcuking feet away cause you dared to look in the same direction as them. The world doesn't revolve around you and your high notions of yourself ya know. I just love it when some scobe gets on at Fatima and sits besides one of these uppity fcuking snobs. Really brings out the Hyacinth Bucket in them. No doubt they go home and try in vain to scrub the Dublin 8 off them.

beks101 · 17-02-2015 11:48PM

People YELLING their private phone conversations on the bus. Seriously, a bit of discretion like?

Buggies. Buggies everywhere. Buggy arrogance, buggy self entitlement. "I have a buggy therefore you must clear the way immediately and vacate your position or I will ram it up your hole."

Smelly people. Especially during rush hour on the tube when I have to stand under their sweaty pits or feel their shocking halitosis on my face. Christ. Why can't people just not be smelly?

And yeah, the 'my bag deserves a seat of its own' brigade. And the folks who sit on the outside seat and don't move in and intentionally avoid eye contact and stare out the window when it gets busy to allow for someone to sit down. And then sigh and act all pissed when someone tries to sit down. Fcuk you and the horse you rode in on.

Pinch Flat · 17-02-2015 11:53PM

http://youtu.be/HCgYDsuR2xs

AudreyHepburn · 18-02-2015 10:01AM

Sheepy99 wrote: »

People eating food on a bus/train, that one has to be the worst thing to complain about.

As long as they're not slinging it around the floor and on windows like a chimpanzee then i can't find the fault with it.

Agreed, food on public transport doesn't bother me as long as people are civilized about eating it and they don't leave a mess behind them.

I've done it myself, particularly if heading down the country for a weekend and I haven't had a chance to eat before leaving or won't be able to eat till late.

beks101 wrote: »

Buggies. Buggies everywhere. Buggy arrogance, buggy self entitlement. "I have a buggy therefore you must clear the way immediately and vacate your position or I will ram it up your hole."

.

I was physically pushed off the Luas by a man with a pram not so long ago.

I was getting on as he was getting off and I, and all the other passengers waiting to board, only made to get on because it genuinely looked like all those who wanted get off had done so and nobody realized there was still some-one else making his way off.

This charming gentleman put his hand on me and physically pushed me backwards off the train saying loudly that 'there are still people trying to get off and could I not be more patient'.

Ignorant twat!

RainyDay · 18-02-2015 11:40AM

Has anyone considered the slightly mad idea of actually talking to the people who are causing such problems, with a simple, polite and assertive "Could you turn your music down" or "Could you put away your food please"?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 18-02-2015 11:50AM

The train this morning. I got a seat. At the end of my carriage there was 3 people standing. One seat available, taken up by a lady and her suitcase who actually pretended she was sleeping at both stops, only to wake up right after the train pulled away from the station

Keyzer · 18-02-2015 12:02PM

Things have changed a lot in regards consideration for the elderly and pregnant women on public transport. I really don't get the lack of consideration, manners and general empathy on public transport.

I recently moved jobs and am on the train to Docklands every morning. Seen a pregnant lady standing up and gave her my seat. She was so grateful. I didn't think twice about it, my mother instilled manners into me in regards giving up your seat when I was younger. I'd also like to think that perhaps if my wife was pregnant and on public transport someone would give her a seat.

Same pregnant lady on the train again the other morning, she was behind me and out of my eye line. However, people facing me could see her and not one person offered her a seat. When I spotted her I gave her my seat and she told me I'm the only person who ever offered up a seat for her. She looked like she was going to cry.

I'm honestly not looking for a blue peter badge or thanks for this, I couldn't care less. Its a 20 min journey and standing up for the duration is far from a hardship.

Added to that, people picking noses and eating their discoveries is a common occurence. Oh, and the people who refuse to budge when you sit beside them and take up half your seat along with their own seat, love it when that happens.

Tarzana2 · 18-02-2015 02:29PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

The train this morning. I got a seat. At the end of my carriage there was 3 people standing. One seat available, taken up by a lady and her suitcase who actually pretended she was sleeping at both stops, only to wake up right after the train pulled away from the station

So... one seat was available... and one person took it?

somesoldiers · 18-02-2015 02:32PM

The bag remained on the seat as the "lady" pretended to be asleep, is how I read it.

I'd have woken her up and asked her to move it, people need to speak up, she won't be as likely to do it again if she's made a show of

kylith · 18-02-2015 02:35PM

somesoldiers wrote: »

The bag remained on the seat as the "lady" pretended to be asleep, is how I read it.

I'd have woken her up and asked her to move it, people need to speak up, she won't be as likely to do it again if she's made a show of

I'd have moved in as soon as she 'woke up'.

Tarzana2 · 18-02-2015 02:37PM

somesoldiers wrote: »

The bag remained on the seat as the "lady" pretended to be asleep, is how I read it.

Oh OK, that wasn't very clear from the post.

NachoBusiness · 18-02-2015 02:44PM

Maybe there was a child in the suitcase.

somesoldiers · 18-02-2015 02:46PM

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Maybe there was a child in the suitcase.

the woman wasn't named Linda or Charlotte was she?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 18-02-2015 02:53PM

Tarzana2 wrote: »

So... one seat was available... and one person took it?

One seat available.
Three people stood the entire journey.
The available seat was taken up with a suitcase, which was perched next to a lady who pretended to sleep at each stop.

Tarzana2 · 18-02-2015 03:42PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

One seat available.
Three people stood the entire journey.
The available seat was taken up with a suitcase, which was perched next to a lady who pretended to sleep at each stop.

You said it was taken up by a woman and a suitcase, hence my confusion.

Zebra3 · 18-02-2015 03:49PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

One seat available.
Three people stood the entire journey.
The available seat was taken up with a suitcase, which was perched next to a lady who pretended to sleep at each stop.

Why didn't somebody tell her to move it?

Grayson · 18-02-2015 04:39PM

Donalh wrote: »

Took the 17A bus once from Ballymun to Coolock, some junkie had taken a hefty, green, physeptone induced crap in the aisle of the top deck. There was no seating or standing room left downstairs so rather than be late for work i had to step over it and sit about 6 feet away from it. Now tell me you have something to complain about!!

I once sat behind an old man who kept shouting random crap. He obviously had issues. It sounded like tourettes on full blast. About two stops from the end I notice that there's a puddle forming under his seat.
yep the poor old fecker peed himself. And he kept shouting and ranting all the way through.

Peig Sayers · 18-02-2015 05:02PM

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.

Happened to me when I was a schoolgirl! Bus was at the terminus and that was back in the day when the driver left the door open so people could get on while he went for a break.

In I get in my school uniform, empty bus, looking out the window. On gets a man and makes a bee-line for the empty seat beside me. WTF the bus was empty, what's he doing sitting next to me? He squashes me up against the window and makes me feel very uncomfortable. I was the quiet shy kind of kid who never spoke up for herself so I just sat and sweated. Next thing I feel a hand on my leg :eek:. I look down and he's sitting there with his hand over his other hand (or so I thought!). Turned out he had a split in his overcoat and his hand was coming out through that while his other hand was holding onto the empty sleeve on his lap! He keeps feeling my leg and I'm squirming away from him praying that somebody would get on the bloody bus! Eventually people started getting on and I mustered up the courage to say 'take your hand off me'. He did and got up and left the bus.

I've always been wary of people who sit beside me on an empty bus/train since

the_syco · 18-02-2015 05:05PM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

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!

I find this to be ironic! :pac:

Eutow · 18-02-2015 05:53PM

the_syco wrote: »

I find this to be ironic! :pac:

You can also include this:

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

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

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!

Complains about missing trains because people refuse to move then in the same comment says it doesn't matter anyway because another train will be along in the next ten minutes.

Zebra3 · 18-02-2015 06:29PM

One thing about not offering seats to pregnant women is its getting more difficult to tell who is pregnant and who is fat/obese.

Cupcake_Crisis · 18-02-2015 06:35PM

People who stand up the top of the bus talking to the bus driver, thus blocking people getting on and off. Why would you even?!?

suicide_circus · 18-02-2015 07:26PM

Keyzer wrote: »

Things have changed a lot in regards consideration for the elderly and pregnant women on public transport. I really don't get the lack of consideration, manners and general empathy on public transport.

I recently moved jobs and am on the train to Docklands every morning. Seen a pregnant lady standing up and gave her my seat. She was so grateful. I didn't think twice about it, my mother instilled manners into me in regards giving up your seat when I was younger. I'd also like to think that perhaps if my wife was pregnant and on public transport someone would give her a seat.

Same pregnant lady on the train again the other morning, she was behind me and out of my eye line. However, people facing me could see her and not one person offered her a seat. When I spotted her I gave her my seat and she told me I'm the only person who ever offered up a seat for her. She looked like she was going to cry.

I'm honestly not looking for a blue peter badge or thanks for this, I couldn't care less. Its a 20 min journey and standing up for the duration is far from a hardship.

Added to that, people picking noses and eating their discoveries is a common occurence. Oh, and the people who refuse to budge when you sit beside them and take up half your seat along with their own seat, love it when that happens.

An unfortunate consequence of the cult of the individual, modern equality and the age of the "-ism".

padd b1975 · 18-02-2015 07:53PM

I got whacked right in the ear hole by a KITCHEN SINK being carried by some muppet on the Dublin to Westport train on the Friday evening of the October bank holiday weekend.

Words actually failed me...

Etiquette on public transport

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