People on subways and trains

thecolourbox

No, not with dark party bars and shiny Cadillac cars

The people actually on trains. I'm currently on a Virgin train from Birmingham to London for a gig, and i treated myself to first class as it was cheap. I reserved a seat.

So on i get, somebody sat in the seat marked reserved, opposite his business bum chum or whatever, both looking at me like "don't you dare sit by us you smelly heathen". So i decide to be a bit huffy, make a fuss about getting stuff out of my bag etc, expecting they might get the point, apparently not. I'm too nice to say anything so i know its my own fault

Ive also learnt one of them is a BMW driver (which figures) as he has made three phone calls trying to get a fiver off a replacement tyre at three different Kwik Fits

Why do people people Muppets as soon as they board a train?

Phil_aka_Pip

Those kind are a slander on the name of Muppet regardless of whether they're in First Class or behind the wheel of a BMW. There is a theory that driving a BMW for long enough turns you into one, but some have suggested it's being one that makes you drive a BMW ...

Sambostar

So you made him move presumably?  I only take shit off evil little old ladies.  Suits are no excuse.

I would have gone to the toilet, come back with my face drenched in water and pretended to be a gap year student who had just come back from Liberia.

Cirrus

I once had someone try to get me to move by showing me a ticket on which they'd scrawled in biro the seat number I was in. I told them to go and get a guard if they thought I was in the wrong place.

Fucking trains. Avoid at all cost!

PolarityMan

Helpless people on a subway train scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them.

jellyroll

So you didn't like these guys coz they looked at you funny and one of them used a phone?

VimFuego

seems reasonable to me.

Sambostar

Cirrus said:

I once had someone try to get me to move by showing me a ticket on which they'd scrawled in biro the seat number I was in. I told them to go and get a guard if they thought I was in the wrong place.

Fucking trains. Avoid at all cost!

Seriously?  I would be furious.  I know this is the day and age where no one will get up from their seat to allow a 9 month gone pregnant women to sit down, in fairness, probably because they take the view that their wages are supporting her and her baby, fair enough, but for people to actively get someone else to move for their own selfish gain is beyond belief.  What sort of society do we live in where the only guy/girl on a 6 man life raft stamps on everyone else's heads, causing them to drown, because they are encroaching on his/her space?  Events such as these should be solved with extreme acts of random violence to settle the cosmic equilibrium and people need to see it to think about the realities of what they are doing.

holnrew

Why didn't you make him move?

dchwhite

Could be worse - my train has just hit a horse

Reckon we might be home by midnight.

jellyroll

dchwhite said:

Could be worse - my train has just hit a horse

What a mare.....

VimFuego

oi, this is neigh laughing matter.

jellyroll

That's wot horses do innit? Go training?

Sambostar

I have never gone first class anyway so the answer is mostly hypothetical.

thecolourbox

jellyroll;418061" said:

So you didn't like these guys coz they looked at you funny and one of them used a phone?

Lol no no, the phone was ancillary info as it informed me they were bmw drivers, and illustrated the stereotype a little more

What I resent is the snobby attitude, especially when they were in my window/power socket seat. I'm not an unreasonable person so if they'd acknowledged this i would have let them stay there so they were opposite each other and they could play footsie etc but just struck me as a stinky attitude. They also said "ergh" at my sandwich, so i made a point of making subtle yum yum food noises throughout eating it. Passive aggressive much

Sambostar

I'm getting confused at who I should feel sympathy for now. you or the poor old BMW commuter whose car was off the road and was forced to take the train and share his seat with an orienteering, greasy haired musician who got a deal on a first class seat whilst eating a egg sandwich. If it came down to a Braveheart moment dare I say it, I might actually side with the Beamer driver.  I think the egg sandwich was the decider.

jellyroll

thecolourbox said:

jellyroll;418061" said:

So you didn't like these guys coz they looked at you funny and one of them used a phone?

Lol no no, the phone was ancillary info as it informed me they were bmw drivers, and illustrated the stereotype a little more

What I resent is the snobby attitude, especially when they were in my window/power socket seat. I'm not an unreasonable person so if they'd acknowledged this i would have let them stay there so they were opposite each other and they could play footsie etc but just struck me as a stinky attitude. They also said "ergh" at my sandwich, so i made a point of making subtle yum yum food noises throughout eating it. Passive aggressive much

Ah, I didn't get the bit about them being in your seat. Fair enough. They're tw*ts. 

randomhandclaps

dchwhite said:

Could be worse - my train has just hit a horse

Reckon we might be home by midnight.

WTF was your train doing in a field in the first place?

jellyroll

randomhandclaps said:

dchwhite said:

Could be worse - my train has just hit a horse

Reckon we might be home by midnight.

WTF was your train doing in a field in the first place?

It was the Pony Express, obviously. Duh! 

Sambostar

Egg sandwich eater vs seat stealing cocky BMW driver.  I call that a draw.

stickyfiddle

I once bought a ticket from Oxford to Devon, in advance, to travel on the 23rd of December. When I got to the train on the day (with the beginnings of proper flu in progress) it turned out the only "seat 14 in carriage D", or whatever it was, was in First, so I sat in it anyway. Of course that train was the one that day with an inspector and he was a jobsworth dick who told me to move, and that any clerical oversight was not his fault or his problem and I'd be arrested if I was still there when he got back. Being 23rd December this of course entailed there were no other seats free on the entire train so I sat on the floor in the buffet car. 

I honestly don't think I've ben on a train since. Fuck em.