Jerk behaviour on public transport

Elysium1 · 21-01-2020 8:16am #1

I’m watching someone who sat near me, other side stick their leg out in the isle of the train, not just foot, much leg too.

People are literally climbing over to pass through on the train and no one has said anything. At the previous stop, someone actually tripped over, I guess they had shorter legs .

Small gripes and first world problems I know.... What is wrong with people? It’s a public space, not your place! I’ve seen other things but...one per day! Ha

See crap like this on your commute?

JustAThought · 21-01-2020 8:23am

mothers letting their children sit on the reserved & handicapped seats on packed luas and not tell them go give the seat up for frail or elderly people jammed into the aisles.

on sundy I watched a self entitled shew faced waggon with a grotesque size 3 wheeler buggy push it up an entire train carriage banging it off everyones arms and legs and snapping md narking at them to get to the other end of the carriage when there were two sets of 4 empty double seats free beside the door she came in.

dirty people who eat or drink and then just f**k the empty wrapper/can on the floor - or worse leave it on the seat to spill and soak into the upholstery

skobies who smoke and now vape on the bus - give yerself cancer but leave me out of it and no I dont want my hair to smell
of strawberry vanilla frappuchino all day

people

mfceiling · 21-01-2020 9:55am

Elysium1 wrote: »

I’m watching someone who sat near me, other side stick their leg out in the isle of the train, not just foot, much leg too.

People are literally climbing over to pass through on the train and no one has said anything. At the previous stop, someone actually tripped over, I guess they had shorter legs .

Small gripes and first world problems I know.... What is wrong with people? It’s a public space, not your place! I’ve seen other things but...one per day! Ha

See crap like this on your commute?

Just stand on their ankle. Continue without apologising.

ewc78 · 21-01-2020 9:58am

Elysium1 wrote: »

I’m watching someone who sat near me, other side stick their leg out in the isle of the train, not just foot, much leg too.

People are literally climbing over to pass through on the train and no one has said anything. At the previous stop, someone actually tripped over, I guess they had shorter legs .

Small gripes and first world problems I know.... What is wrong with people? It’s a public space, not your place! I’ve seen other things but...one per day! Ha

See crap like this on your commute?

A swift kick to the shin as I walk past is what I would be doing.

Manach · 21-01-2020 10:02am

Whilst a fellow passenger might have a fine singing voice in their own head, the rest of the carriage would not rather hear their vocal experiementations.

CrankyHaus · 21-01-2020 10:07am

People blocking the entrance to the carriage when you're getting off is the obvious one.
Enjoy dispensing liberal amounts of elbowing, shouldering and toe stamping as you squeeze through them, best accompanied by cheerful shouts of "so sorry there, excuse me" with a big smile so they know that you're doing it on purpose but can't say anything without coming off bad.

is_that_so · 21-01-2020 10:09am

CrankyHaus wrote: »

People blocking the entrance to the carriage when you're getting off is the obvious one.
Enjoy dispensing liberal amounts of elbowing, shouldering and toe stamping as you squeeze through them, best accompanied by cheerful shouts of "so sorry there, excuse me" with a big smile so they know that you're doing it on purpose but can't say anything without coming off bad.

Gotta do it in a slightly stressed voice, with your head down and driving through the crowd like a rugby player!

razorblunt · 21-01-2020 10:10am

Ranting & Raving has a whole thread on this and it's great reading.

There's a punch in the face coming for the people that can't/don't wait to leave people off at stops before trying to board themselves.

whisky_galore · 21-01-2020 10:13am

Irish people using the word "jerk".

car_radio19834 · 21-01-2020 10:13am

Jerk?

Am I on reddit?

21-01-2020 10:14am

music/videos without earphones

speaking on a phone in anything other than the quietest tone you can manage, preferably to inform the caller that youre on the bus and cant really talk

Brock Turnpike · 21-01-2020 10:16am

Hey, jerkface. You have the face of a jerk.

Assetbacked · 21-01-2020 10:20am

People not moving when you try to get off a busy bus or train. There is only one "sorry, excuse me" given out and then it's pushing with the potential to drag them off the train with me.

Sheep who get onto a bus and assume there are no seats upstairs because people are standing. Then the downstairs gets cramped because people are too simple to think for themselves and go to have a look for seats upstairs. I would say that 9/10 times there is a seat upstairs when you get onto a bus and people are standing.

Doctor Nick · 21-01-2020 10:21am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

music/videos without earphones

speaking on a phone in anything other than the quietest tone you can manage, preferably to inform the caller that youre on the bus and cant really talk

This. Nothing irritates me more. Every evening I have to put up with a video calling Eastern European shouting down the phone. Other times it's Irish shouting and roaring about their entire day with all the f'in and blinding.

If my phone rings I either reject call and text or answer quietly and say I'll ring them back as on bus

WrenBoy · 21-01-2020 10:25am

Elysium1 wrote: »

not just foot, much leg too.

Much leg, so jerk.

Tommybojangles · 21-01-2020 10:27am

How in the fcuk do Spanish women have so much to talk.about?

ONY · 21-01-2020 10:32am

Elysium1 wrote: »

I’m watching someone who sat near me, other side stick their leg out in the isle of the train, not just foot, much leg too.

People are literally climbing over to pass through on the train and no one has said anything. At the previous stop, someone actually tripped over, I guess they had shorter legs .

It’s very possible they had an injury that didn’t allow them to bend their leg!! I know someone who regularly has idiots bashing into their leg assuming they are just being rude by not moving it. They can’t!

B.A._Baracus · 21-01-2020 10:35am

ONY wrote: »

It’s very possible they had an injury that didn’t allow them to bend their leg!! I know someone who regularly has idiots bashing into their leg assuming they are just being rude by not moving it. They can’t!

While the person you know may be have that condition and be genuine. Around 99.9% of people who do the same don't and don't care about others.

Thelonious Monk · 21-01-2020 10:48am

People on the Dart not opening windows when it's like a f*cking sauna as it's so packed and the heat is cranked up.

ShyMets · 21-01-2020 11:06am

People have full blown personal conversations at the top of their voices.

DelBoy Trotter · 21-01-2020 11:15am

People not taking off backpacks and hitting people with them is a big pet peeve of mine :mad:

JupiterKid · 21-01-2020 11:25am

Peope blocking exits when you are trying to get off the bus, tram or train - a curt, clipped but polite"excuse me please" shifts some of them, but not all. That's where the rugby moves come into play...

People who take up disabled seats or priority seats for elderly/expectant mothers and then do not give them up when an elderly or pregnant person needs them. Height of bad manners and ignorance.

People having full blown conversations on their phones in as loud a tone of voice as posible.

And.....people who stand crowded around the stairs to the upper deck of the bus when there are seats upstairs and you want to get past them.

I'm such a grumpy misanthrope!

Bombaby1974 · 21-01-2020 11:30am

Assetbacked wrote: »

People not moving when you try to get off a busy bus or train. There is only one "sorry, excuse me" given out and then it's pushing with the potential to drag them off the train with me.

Sheep who get onto a bus and assume there are no seats upstairs because people are standing. Then the downstairs gets cramped because people are too simple to think for themselves and go to have a look for seats upstairs. I would say that 9/10 times there is a seat upstairs when you get onto a bus and people are standing.

Hear you loud and clear. Get on the bus. If it's jammers, ask the driver "anything upstairs"? Driver glances at his screen thing and says " yeah loads".

Common sense is a lost art!!!

Patrick2010 · 21-01-2020 11:37am

Bombaby1974 wrote: »

Hear you loud and clear. Get on the bus. If it's jammers, ask the driver "anything upstairs"? Driver glances at his screen thing and says " yeah loads".

Common sense is a lost art!!!

Was upstairs right at the back of the bus last week during morning rush hour. It filled but then a few got off leaving 5 empty seats in front of me. Saw someone come up the stairs and take a cursory glance and announce to who ever was behind them, "full up".
Couldn't have missed seeing them but probably couldn't be bothered making their way down.

lozenges · 21-01-2020 11:43am

Rude idiots trying to cram their way in to the tram/train/bus without letting people off first is my all time favourite.

I also detest when people refuse to move down the Luas carriages and insist on standing near the doors resulting in others being unable to board the tram even though there's space. If this occurred on the Tube there'd be blood.

DarTipp · 21-01-2020 11:43am

good thread ! its no wonder people are reluctant to use public transport on a regular basis

21-01-2020 11:47am

Doctor Nick wrote: »

This. Nothing irritates me more. Every evening I have to put up with a video calling Eastern European shouting down the phone. Other times it's Irish shouting and roaring about their entire day with all the f'in and blinding.

If my phone rings I either reject call and text or answer quietly and say I'll ring them back as on bus

Yeah particularly when they’re just playing music/videos off their phone on full volume I’ve begun making a point of just politely asking them to either put earphones in or turn it off.

I’ve found they either stop immediately or get defensive and start arguing (Wha?! Dyew own da bus do ya??!) in which case you just continue calmly explaining your request - the longer this goes on you’ll find more and more people sitting around will begin piping up on your side, once the initial step has been taken.

21-01-2020 11:50am

Tommybojangles wrote: »

How in the fcuk do Spanish women have so much to talk.about?

FYP.

There was a girl beside me on the train, for whatever reason, we got sat beside each other regularly and at 7am in the morning she spent an hour talking to 'Mammy'. There'd be a moment or two of silence and then I'd hear. "I know that mammy, but what I said to him was blah blah blah"

The deep and powerful conversations I have with my Ma on the train is a text saying Ma, I'm on the train. I'll ring you later.

Gynoid · 21-01-2020 12:34pm

People who eat monster munch on confined public transport spaces are dead to me.
Ditto tuna or egg sandwiches. Salt and vinegar crisps are a whippable offence.
Cheap cans of lager cracked open on the train like we are all off to Torremolinos when we are only passing Mullingar. And then the honk of ya when you have just sucked the life out if a fag on the platform at a stop and then breathe it all back out to me when you get back in. Maybe combined with lager breath. Dead to me.

freshpopcorn · 21-01-2020 12:36pm

People who sit beside you on an almost empty bus, train, etc!

NeinNeinNein · 21-01-2020 12:50pm

Toerags who put their trotters on the seat opposite.

AudreyHepburn · 21-01-2020 12:55pm

People who block the entrance to the bus/train and/or refuse to move along the carriage so that no one can get on or off.

Stand back and be patient. You’re not going to miss your stop or not be able to board just because you’re not right up against the door.

Also people putting their bag on the seat next to them when the bus/train is full or filling up. I make a point of standing over them until they tidy up. Men doing the splits in their seats get the same treatment.

shesty · 21-01-2020 12:59pm

Batrachotox wrote: »

Yeah particularly when they’re just playing music/videos off their phone on full volume I’ve begun making a point of just politely asking them to either put earphones in or turn it off.

I’ve found they either stop immediately or get defensive and start arguing (Wha?! Dyew own da bus do ya??!) in which case you just continue calmly explaining your request - the longer this goes on you’ll find more and more people sitting around will begin piping up on your side, once the initial step has been taken.

Recent experience with 2 teens playing music loudly from a phone on a packed rush hour train.They were asked politely to trun it down.They resorted to looking at porn at the loudest possible volume.

Real classy....

NeinNeinNein · 21-01-2020 12:59pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Irish people using the word "jerk".

I guess it's the polite version of c**t.

mathie · 21-01-2020 1:11pm

Who had "Page 2" for AH Xenophobic Bingo?

El_Duderino 09 · 21-01-2020 1:29pm

Doctor Nick wrote: »

This. Nothing irritates me more. Every evening I have to put up with a video calling Eastern European shouting down the phone. Other times it's Irish shouting and roaring about their entire day with all the f'in and blinding.

If my phone rings I either reject call and text or answer quietly and say I'll ring them back as on bus

I often wonder why talking on the phone on public transport is so annoying. I sit in work with people making calls andy Mrs might make a call at home and it doesn't annoy me. But public transport calls are different for some reason. I just use my earphones so I dont hear other people on public transport.

Gannicus · 21-01-2020 1:39pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

People who sit beside you on an almost empty bus, train, etc!

There's an aul, fairly hefty & smelly (wannabe) Pint Man that gets on my bus (Dublin Bus) nearly every evening without fail on his way home from the boozer. He insists on sitting on the seat by the door regardless of who is sitting there or how busy the bus is. He told me to move one day when there were a heap of seats free and I looked up at him and looked back down at my book. I blanked him completely. He spent the rest of the bus route (approx 30min) staring me out of it and everytime I sit there he does the same.

i57dwun4yb1pt8 · 21-01-2020 1:41pm

the jerk store called, they've run out of You

Tuff Gong · 21-01-2020 1:41pm

NeinNeinNein wrote: »

I guess it's the polite version of c**t.

No, that would be w**ker!

Anyhoo, I'm so happy I don't have to use public transport, and never give up your seat for an elderly person...
The last time I did that, I lost my job as a bus driver.

Bobblehats · 21-01-2020 1:57pm

Might get away with it if you put your jacket over your lap

Church on Tuesday · 21-01-2020 2:21pm

Elysium1 wrote: »

I’m watching someone who sat near me, other side stick their leg out in the isle of the train, not just foot, much leg too.

People are literally climbing over to pass through on the train and no one has said anything. At the previous stop, someone actually tripped over, I guess they had shorter legs .

Small gripes and first world problems I know.... What is wrong with people? It’s a public space, not your place! I’ve seen other things but...one per day! Ha

See crap like this on your commute?

Well that's the problem then.

Call people out on their bull****. Simple.

namloc1980 · 21-01-2020 2:27pm

People who put their bags on the seat next to them. Infuriating.

Rufeo · 21-01-2020 2:31pm

I was on a bus to hell once, sorry, to Blanchardstown, the 39 bus.

There was this French man om the bus, and a few Dublin girls heard him speaking french, so they started talking to him in basic French. But they obviously weren't even conversationally fluent, for they started making up words lol. The guy got annoyed with them, not aggressively or anything, but they started making fun of him then. This went on the whole way from the quays to Blanch. Eventually they got off the bus, but the guy followed them and smacked them!

Bizarrest thing I ever seen. Was really embarrassed to be Irish that day.

Plopsu · 21-01-2020 2:38pm

namloc1980 wrote: »

People who put their bags on the seat next to them. Infuriating.

I always find it amusing to watch people do this on my evening train home. Deluded to think that their bags are going to be staying there.

ShyMets · 21-01-2020 2:42pm

People who on the upstairs of a bus sit on the outside seat. Yes, i know somethings there can be a valid reason. But most of the time they're trying to keep the second seat for themselves

MarkY91 · 21-01-2020 2:43pm

Rufeo wrote: »

I was on a bus to hell once, sorry, to Blanchardstown, the 39 bus.

There was this French man om the bus, and a few Dublin girls heard him speaking french, so they started talking to him in basic French. But they obviously weren't even conversationally fluent, for they started making up words lol. The guy got annoyed with them, not aggressively or anything, but they started making fun of him then. This went on the whole way from the quays to Blanch. Eventually they got off the bus, but the guy followed them and smacked them!

Bizarrest thing I ever seen. Was really embarrassed to be Irish that day.

Wait...the man attacked a bunch of young girls and You're defending his actions?

wildlifeboy · 21-01-2020 2:46pm

top deck of the Bus entirely empty, i am sitting at the front front on the right upstairs. Dude gets on a sits beside me. i had to take a double take to believe it actually happened. to this day i have no idea why he did it and i stayed put the whole journey. was the 39 too

MrAbyss · 21-01-2020 2:49pm

This goes on everywhere in the western world with public transport. Nothing you can do about it.

El_Duderino 09 · 21-01-2020 3:44pm

Plopsu wrote: »

I always find it amusing to watch people do this on my evening train home. Deluded to think that their bags are going to be staying there.

My bag always stays there unless someone asks me to move it so they can sit down. For all the big talk, nobody has ever touched it, I’ve never even seen it happen. People just politely ask to move the bag and I politely do so and they sit dow. No drama.

Conall Cernach · 21-01-2020 4:12pm

I was on a Bus Eireann bus yesterday from Dublin. Somewhere on the M1 I thought I could smell tobacco smoke and I noticed the driver checking his mirror a lot. When we turned off the motorway a girl approached the driver to say there was someone smoking in the toilet. The driver stopped the bus and spoke to yer man who sounded drunk. A little further along the road the driver pulled in at a car park and put yer man off the bus via the back door. The other passengers applauded.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 21-01-2020 4:16pm

lozenges wrote: »

Rude idiots trying to cram their way in to the tram/train/bus without letting people off first is my all time favourite.

I also detest when people refuse to move down the Luas carriages and insist on standing near the doors resulting in others being unable to board the tram even though there's space. If this occurred on the Tube there'd be blood.

On the tube, people are not shy about telling people to move down the aisles for sure! :pac:

Jerk behaviour on public transport

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