People on trains

[Radiomanic]

i fucking hate people on trains!

I'm talking about those people in suits with the flashy mobile phones.

I mean why the fuck do they always want to get on the train at the last minute? Every time i catch a train in the rush hour they always turn up five seconds before the train is about to leave thus delaying the train, for fucks sake people! You are the ones always moaning about your trains being delayed when you are the ones holding the train up in the first place! I don't care if you have a flash mobile and a nice suit that doesn't give you the right to fucking get on the train when you demand it. And if there is no train at the platform you give it all this "This is a terrible service, i want a refund" shit. Shut the fuck up! Nobody wants to hear your whinging about having to wait an hour for a train, the reason you have to wait is because you didn't fucking turn up at the right time! And you all fucking stink of shit so who would want you on the train eh? And i'm sure you could all make less than 100 phone calls during your journey. Surely if you get payed that much you could afford to buy your own train and stop getting up our fucking noses you twats!

[Amanda Graceywire]

Having been on many a commuter train between London and Birmingham/Lichfield... *nods in sympathy* What got me was the train between Manchester and Birmingham from Move, though - a bunch of tarts got on at Crewe, and laughed like wounded hyenas until I got off the train at Brum (the train was going to Bournemouth, not London). Call me old-fashioned, but I think on a train journey you should be at least a little bit courteous to other people? By, perhaps, toning down your sonic boom of a laugh by a few hundred decibels? There's having fun and then there's giving people complications of the eardrums... Virgin trains ingenoiusly have "quiet zones" on their trains, which is all well and good if you're booked to sit in that particular carriage :rolleyes:

The train from Birmingham to London that day was overheated (well, the standard class carriages were announced as being, anyway; I imagine first class had their own personal lackeys to fan them) and we all got a free dinky bottle of water and a complaints form. And then we were delayed. I can remember at least one chatter of "No mate, I'm on a train... No, ON A TRAIN... we're stuck" so we have come full-circle. At least you can't use mobiles on the Tube. :twisted:

[Thomas]

well, seriously I hope all your anger is just to... impress girls. If you genuinely get so pissed off by stuff like this, I wonder how you want to survive in this world.

[Amanda Graceywire]

Alright luv, everyone's entitled to a rant every now and then... :) normally such things don't piss me off majorly, I was just coming out in sympathy. Jesus, why is it every time I post in this section I get a bollocking for it?! *leaves*

[Kelly]

Frankly, as long as my train actually gets me to where I want to go, I don't give a shit. I've found myself stranded so often in recent months.

But, y'know Radiomanic - do you think they arrive just as the doors are closing on purpose? They only want to get on the train. I have more vitriol for the loud, obnoxious people, like Amanda says. Like the shrieking schoolgirls when I was on the way to HMV on Monday *grinds teeth*

[Thomas]

no, I didn't mean you, Amanda! Mainly all my negative energy was directed to Radiomanic.. :)

but then again, yes.. I may have bla.. you know.. blalala

[Pimpf]

I don't mind people just being loud, they aren't doing any harm...I was on my way to a club on the day of the Golden jubilee last year and some drunken geezers were smashing up the carriage and tearing out all the seats while I was sitting there shitting myself :eek: Give me shrieking schoolgirls and annoying mobile phones anyday...

[MrsCarbohydrate]

i hate trains. they're too expensive, always late, dirty and full of loud obnoxious, irritating people. I liked the Gruff's comment at MOVE: "we came here today by Virgin trains. Took us fifteen hours" that's how i feel most of the time. and i use the train everyday to get to uni.

and the other day my train was twenty minutes late because the driver was stuck on another train which was late.. and i had to sit and boil in the carriage for twenty minutes. *sulks*

[pretty in pink]

I love traveling by trains. I love the feeling of breaking away with the world I get on a long train joyrney. I always enjoy a ten hour train journey when I can watch the world go by - especially in winter when the landscape is all frosty - listen to music, read and eat some snacks.

[billy]

actually, i was one of those people last night, as i got to central station at 2014 and my train was 2015. i ran like hell.

[Perdita]

I'm always jumping on the train like Indiana Jones just as the foors are closing... don't really see how it makes the train late, unless you make the doors have to re-open or something... but yeah, I empathise with every complaint on here anyway.

And to add mine: I nicely ask (and actually quite nicely and fun-ly, not all self righteous or anything) this guy not to smoke on my train home (no smoking carriage), and get a 'Fuck off' and a 'you don't fucking know anything' in a really aggressive way, right in my face. Really nasty. I mean, there was only them and me, and another bloke in the carriage, all they had to do was say 'mind if I light up?'.

But there's nothing like the perfect long train journey, like PiP says; nice snacks, a table seat to yourself, lovely view, chance to catch up on some reading/dreaming/work.

[knives out]

well stupid fuckers never told me i had got on a train that was needing fixed or something which was completely empty and i only noticed at the very last minute and had to run off it onto another one and i just about mangaed to get in.

bah!

[littlebabynothing79]

I like trains...
But I dont like the people..well strangers in general..bad stereotype I know..one guy on a train (old middle age sort) made a move on me..I was sick..so sick..and I just wanted to get off at Bath call my bf to talk and then meet him and hug him and cry :rolleyes:

[Tim]

I don't really mind a train journey and you get to see how nice the countryside in the UK is, which is not entirely evident from the road. Coming back from Move on sunday was infuriating though, the train was delayed for over an hour outside Birmingham because of faulty signals which meant I missed my connecting train. Didn't get home until about 9:30pm, a total journey time of roughly 8 and a half hours. As for people, well, it's nice if you have someone to talk too, as I did when I came back from Yorkshire the last time. Haven't really had a bad experience though.

[Radiomanic]

Originally posted by pretty in pink
I love traveling by trains. I love the feeling of breaking away with the world I get on a long train joyrney. I always enjoy a ten hour train journey when I can watch the world go by - especially in winter when the landscape is all frosty - listen to music, read and eat some snacks.


That's exactly what i love. I go on the train everywhere i possibly can.

I just get so pissed off with businessmen and their mobile phones. "Just letting you know i'm on the train, i'll be with you in 5 minutes" I mean 5 minutes...why fucking phone?! If they want to have a phonecall just go to the end of the carriage where nobody can hear you!

I don't wanna hear all about how they got drunk last night or who they shagged over the weekend...i and nobody else on the train cares!

But yeah i love train travel :)

[Dave]

I like listening to other people talking on the phone on the train, it makes me think "I'm glad I'm not that poor bastard who has to phone people to talk to someone" then I ring my mum and ask her if there's anything she needs from Swindon so everyone else thinks I'm important and thoughtful and a provider and popular.

Now, let me play the Devil's Advocate. Do you think that these businessmen make these calls to explain where they are and how long they'll be because they have meetings and the like and it's rude to keep people waiting?
Have you ever really tried to make a phone call at the end of the carriage? It's very noisy there.

[Radiomanic]

Originally posted by Dave
I like listening to other people talking on the phone on the train, it makes me think "I'm glad I'm not that poor bastard who has to phone people to talk to someone" then I ring my mum and ask her if there's anything she needs from Swindon so everyone else thinks I'm important and thoughtful and a provider and popular.

Now, let me play the Devil's Advocate. Do you think that these businessmen make these calls to explain where they are and how long they'll be because they have meetings and the like and it's rude to keep people waiting?
Have you ever really tried to make a phone call at the end of the carriage? It's very noisy there.

Not if it's an intercity train...which is where i see most these bloody businessmen.

[al]

I met my husband on a train - I'd just managed to jump on it at the last minute. If I'd missed it ................. :eek:

[manic_black_flower]

people who work for vigin trains should get danger money..are they ever on time?
but i notice they always hide when things go wrong..probably in a bullet proof room with enough food and drink for a year..
i just always imagine the fat cats in charge on god knows how much money, who probably get around in limos, and its the lower paid staff who get all the shit.
i like trains as its my way of escaping. small towns can be very claustrophobic, and i need to get away sometimes (local radio catchphrase: nottingham:worlds best city:rolleyes: )

[littlebabynothing79]

Virgin and First Great Western..are probably the worst time keepers :mad: Also I totally hate it when people play their walkmans to loud you can't hear yourself think and you get the 'tink tink tink' the sound is hard so hard to distinguish as a band or anything..I'm sorry to stereotype but its usually ravers and their dance music :o :p

[Furbag]

I was in one of Virgins "Quiet Zones" yesterday on only my third train journey and it was as loud as the normal carriages! There was a rude bloke on a phone and someone with their headphones on playing house music or something! What a waste of time!

My first train journey, a matter of weeks ago, was horrible!
First of all, the first train broke down....TWICE! and the boiler broke, so no hot drinks, therefore missed our connecting train. Got to Derby and asked for the platform our connecting train was going to be one, they said 4, waited 30 mins to see it going from 2, then went to 2, waited 40 mins, before being told it was on 4, just made it on to it! God, i laughed so much it was that sad :p

[Takk]

I like train journeys generally but somethings piss me off :

The train being over an hour late and the patronising automated announcement apologising for any inconvenience, FOR FUCK's sake, they don't give a toss about my inconvenience - and even if they do, what good does it do. Doesn't give me an hour of my life back, now does it? ARRRRRRGH. It's every time i go anywhere, how can a train that only takes 45 mins arrive an hour late, it's so stupid. Getting to brum for the signing at half 12 when i should have got there at 10 was annoying, partially my fault but i would still have been about an hour and a half late without my accidental scenic detour to kidderminister.

People with stupidly loud text sounds or mobile ring tones, just so EVERBODY has to hear that they've been called. If they really want that much attention then they should go out naked. You could still hear them if you turned them down, just the rest of the train wouldn't be able to.

[/rant]

But some people are funny, like the guy who picked up his burger, took a bite, rang somone and then said garbledly "can't talk, am eating burger" and hung up. wtf? :rolleyes:

And some little girl asked me to marry her on the way to move :cool:

[amaranth]

Originally posted by Methadone Pretty
I like train journeys generally but somethings piss me off :

The train being over an hour late and the patronising automated announcement apologising for any inconvenience, FOR FUCK's sake, they don't give a toss about my inconvenience - and even if they do, what good does it do. Doesn't give me an hour of my life back, now does it? ARRRRRRGH.

God yes!!! I love train journeys, but that is the most annoying thing ever - it's one of the few things that really winds me up!

[UEF]

I always sit in the quiet zone.

I always faredodge too :o To Move and Back cost me 75p in total.

[jodywire]

I don't mind trains as long as they are keeping reasonable time.:rolleyes: ............ but buses thats another matter, there are certain buses in Wolverhampton which for some unknown reason i am guaranteed to get someone sitting next to me that smells, need so much of the seat that they are virtually sitting on my lap and then they give me a withering look when I want to get off because they have to move so I can do so!

Then again it could just be these particular buses OR Wolverhampton he he!;) And just lately the drivers are mean too!!

Answer to problem : stick on your discman and daydream that you are travelling further than you really are. :)

[Dancing May Girl]

I went to Romania for three months and I often used their railways
You are sitting in a train with a lot of people, goats, ducks and sometimes an entire forrest because it is market day and the gypsies are going to sell trees and stuff. To get by train from Brasov to Sibiu which is around 160 kilometers as I recall, took almost 7 hours. The seats sucks and you're arse is completely numb when you have been sitting for so long. But everyone was friendly and helpful, People were smiling all the time and would gladly share what they got.

When I came home I was shocked when I found out how spoiled we were. We complain about how long it takes and yadda yadda yadda. You very rarely see a smile and people just sits there in their own little world.

I love reading, talking to people when I go by train and watching the landscape.

But one thing canmake me a bit mad and that is when parents let their children walk around in the train and take people's things and snacks. I've seen this a couple of times and that can make me a bit irritated.

[MrsCarbohydrate]

Originally posted by littlebabynothing79
Virgin and First Great Western..are probably the worst time keepers :mad:


you've never travelled on scotrail have you? :)

I got the rudest ticket inspector in the world today. i asked for a ticket to bellshill- reasonable you might thing.. but noooooooo..

"Where?"
"bellshill, single"
"[louder] WHERE?"
"BELLSHILL"
"*tuts, fiddles with the machine, sighs-* for goodness sake..."


*pulls hair out*

[nic]

going up tp london for hmv signing a old woman sat next to me on the train.for nearlly four hours she went on about being evacuated in the war .she only got from 1941 to 43 and said if i was on the same train the next day she would tell me the rest.
i was glad to get off the train in the end.im not being mean but the air conditioning was broke(monday was a hot day)and she was sat on the outside and she wouldnt get up to let me go for a wee.

[Dancing May Girl]

Originally posted by paula
going up tp london for hmv signing a old woman sat next to me on the train.for nearlly four hours she went on about being evacuated in the war .she only got from 1941 to 43 and said if i was on the same train the next day she would tell me the rest.
i was glad to get off the train in the end.im not being mean but the air conditioning was broke(monday was a hot day)and she was sat on the outside and she wouldnt get up to let me go for a wee.

Tried something familiar. A woman told me about when she gave birth to her kids and she was good at details. I like it when people talk but when she was half finished I wanted to throw up and at the same time get a appointment with my doctor to get sterialized. I sat there for 5 hours before I could get off.