I had the misfortune of having to get the train & tube (London) into work this morning as I had a training course in the city (I would usually drive to work)
On the train, I was one of the first stops so thankfully I got a seat, tucking myself neatly in by the window on a bank of 3 seats. The 2 seats opposite me filled up as did the 1 on the end of my bank leaving a spare seat in the middle of me and a man.
3 stops in, a lady got on, roughly threw her bag on to the overhead shelf & instead of asking the man to move she threw herself down in the middle of us.
She was tucking her coat down her sides and span around & said to me in a very agressive tone, "can you move over please?" I was so shocked I laughed and said "where to? I am at the edge of the seat" (I was pressed up against the window by now)
As I could not move, she decided to open her metro paper full stretch and read it with her fist in my face for the rest of the journey!
Why are some people so bloody rude?
2007-10-23 04:15:14 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
(I had been tempted to say, of course madam, I'll go and sit outside, I hear riding the train al fresco is all the rage these days!)
2007-10-23 04:16:03 · update #1
wow! i would of said something to her like excuse me we all have to share this place and i'm sure none of us want to be here but thinking the world owes you one and you thinking you own this tube is BS and will not be tolarated I will not move there is no place to move and if you invade my personal space with that newpaper iw ill take owner ship of itr and rip it to streads!
now that's rude!
but i could care less! the way she acted what a BBBBeeeiiitch
2007-10-23 05:41:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because some people are the kind of people that you wouldn't want in the Gene Pool with the rest of us. Pray they don't breed.
It's the tube. Everyone's in a bad mood. It's living in London that does it. And just being on a little train with thousands of absolute strangers gives them the 'right' to be obnoxious and get away with it.
I daily thank the stars that I don't have the misfortune to live in London and only have to pass through if I'm off the train from Scotland at Kings Cross and heading for the south coast, and that's once in the proverbial blue moon.
All I can say, love, is don't live in London. It might have great night life, but it's also got a higher proportion of self obsessed tossers than any other city in the UK, and the best night life I've seen in the world is in Newcastle. And I've been about the world quite a lot.
2007-10-23 11:39:59 · answer #2 · answered by Beastie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've been commuting into London for eighteen months. It's normal etiquette in the situation you describe for the lady to take the middle seat rather than asking someone to move. Personally I don't have a problem with that, though I do avoid sitting where you sat because those banks of three seats are never really big enough. The rest of her behaviour is definitely out of order.
I would really like to ban free newspapers on the trains and tube. If you don't get a fist in your face, like you describe, then you get an elbow in the ribs every time someone tries to turn the page, or if you're standing on the tube it's not uncommon to be whacked in the face with it. At least if they weren't free there wouldn't be so many of them.
2007-10-23 11:29:29 · answer #3 · answered by booklady 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in Newport and thankfully,I don't need to use bus or train anymore.When I did,it used to be awful.And people go on about youngsters but,I've seen some really cheeky older ones with attitude.It is very rude.Manners cost nothing.I think some people think public transport was made just for them.
I also got an issue with people loudly using their mobile phones on public transport.Gosh,some of the conversations I have heard still turn my stomach.
2007-10-23 11:38:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What an awful start to your day. Thankfully I don't need to use the tube often, but when I do its always an 'experience'. Last time I was in London, the guy sat next to me was spitting. When a fellow passenger pointed out politely that it was illegal and asked him to stop, he was spat at in his face.
Some people (and I use the term advisedly) have all the charm of a louse.
2007-10-23 12:12:03 · answer #5 · answered by Catherine1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Several years ago, I was riding a bus that had bench seats, and I was the only one on the bench. A lady got on and sat practically on my thigh. Then she said, "Can you scootch over a little bit?" I said, "Me? You were the one aiming for my lap!" She looked at me like I was the Devil incarnate. But she got off my lap. So sometimes you gotta give people back what they send out.
2007-10-23 19:07:22 · answer #6 · answered by julz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is appaling, I havent been to London, I live in Cardiff, but the public tansport there is just as bad, the new thing now for young people is spitting on buses, spitting on the driver, other passengers, on the floor, seats windows, I think behavour on public transport is disgusting.
2007-10-23 11:26:17 · answer #7 · answered by Luke 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry to hear that you experienced this, as a Londoner...its something that we all experience nearly everyday commuting to central London and back...some people just now have the attitude that its a God given right in behaving that way...just society these days :( :(
2007-10-23 11:22:45 · answer #8 · answered by London_Girl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People do bad things if they think they can get away with it.
If you cave in for anything, even the smallest favor, it gets them to think they can make you give in more to suit them, and if you don't draw the line, they'll just keep pushing.
What's worse is when they're too sweet on you because they're trying to hit on you and won't take no for an answer... >_<
2007-10-23 11:32:41 · answer #9 · answered by Nemesis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to work for public transit in NJ the USA. And same thing the people are out of control. Rude and surley
2007-10-23 11:23:10 · answer #10 · answered by Michael M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋