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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:01 
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If someone is literally blocking the way I'd have zero qualms about physically pushing past them while 'muttering' "fuck sake" loud enough for them to hear. I can thoroughly recommend doing that instead of being quietly raging.


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:09 
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I'd be doing that a hundred times a day in London. It's just easier to quietly tut and seethe inside.


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 13:11 
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I have a new commute nemesis, but the most annoying thing is that he doesn't know he is.

Fat guy, gets on the train at the same stop as me, sits in the same carriage, spends all his time on his phone. All ok so far.
Gets off at my stop, walks through the train station, still glued to his phone the whole time, with no spatial awareness. The usual randomly speeding up, slowing down and meandering that all phone walkers do.
Waits for the same tube as me, in front of the carriage doors that I get on. Hasn't once looked up from his phone yet.
Tube arrives, he is standing in front of the doors... and he decides to wait for the next tube if it is slightly busy... but doesn't get out of the way, blocking the people behind him from getting on, ands the platform is pretty crowded and he is a big guy, so you can't exactly walk around him.

He has done it to me twice now, so I know to avoid standing behind him, but I hate him. I hate how oblivious he is to everything and everybody around him.


This would make me seethe. Nothing makes me quite so angry as the ones who just have the eyes glued to their book/kindle/phone/iPad Fucking Pro while they're walking along. They're effectively saying "Fuck all of you, I'm walking this way, it's up to you to ensure I don't crash into you."

I've failed to acquire a true bete noire on my commute, nobody has been truly egregious on a regular basis (apart from the train companies, natch. But that's too predictable and tedious to go into, though it has been truly, spectacularly awful since the timetable change. All the strikes were a walk in the park compared to this.)


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 14:14 
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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 18:29 
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Generally, I'm easy going. Aside from the guy who used to take the same bus as me on the way to school. But not a bath. Or a shower. Or a trip to the laundry shop. Ever.
Words cannot describe how vomit-inducingly awful it was when he got on the bus (And the time he sat infront of me he nearly got it all over his back. He robably still wouldn't have washed). Although you could tell he had before he came up to the top deck from smell alone and prepare accordingly. Once you knew.

Although on the commute back from Epsom there was a crazy old guy would would mutter under his breath how much he wanted to kill me. For the sin of being next to the door that dropped you closest to the station exit.


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 18:31 
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In other commuting news, my train home has 12 carriages, the first stop is half an hour into the journey.

People are always crowded into the vestibules, standing up in the last half of the train, with the rest of the seats all taken.

I'm currently sitting in a six seat section, all on my lonesome, because I walked down to the front of the train and got on the second carriage. Same thing happens every day.
I'm not complaining about my oodles of space, I just find it weird.


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 18:42 
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It's the fear of the doors closing without them getting on that makes that happen, I think.

People who try and avoid that by walking down the inside of the train though *shudder*

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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 18:57 
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I get to the train about 18:05 and the closest carriages are already full to bursting. The train leaves at 18:13...


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 19:00 
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People are idiots, I guess?

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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 19:03 
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I assumed it was idleness, not wanting to walk all the way down the platform, but surely if you are that idle you want to be sitting down for the journey?

Maybe they have never been this far down and think it is packed in every carriage, that would make sense!


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:40 
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On my train in the parts where there are three-seater bits people will tend to sit with a gap between them. Which is fine and understandable when the train isn't full, but after that point it's wasted seat. The weird thing is though that other people will then almost never dare to sit in these spare seats. It's incredibly rare that I need to stand during my commute because even at a point when the doorway and aisles are full of fucking idiots standing up there's usually loads of these spare seats; and I've got no qualms about pushing in between two fannies and sitting in one of them. I find it deeply odd: there's a spare seat, why stand instead of sitting in it? People are fucking weird.


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:03 
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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:06 
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If no-one else does it... maybe you're the weird one


Statistically it seems I am. Behaviourally though I'd argue they are.


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:09 
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If all the two-person seats in a carriage have one spare seat each, I will pick the one with a bag on it.


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:38 
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Kern wrote:
If all the two-person seats in a carriage have one spare seat each, I will pick the one with a bag on it.


100% :this:

Or if they're sitting in the aisle with a spare window seat.

Though I was thinking about Trooper's unaware nemesis on this morning's commute. What if I am unwittingly someone's hated nemesis? What have I been doing wrong? I found myself getting weirdly wound up about this hypothetical antagonist.


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:33 
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Trooper wrote:
In other commuting news, my train home has 12 carriages, the first stop is half an hour into the journey.

People are always crowded into the vestibules, standing up in the last half of the train, with the rest of the seats all taken.

I'm currently sitting in a six seat section, all on my lonesome, because I walked down to the front of the train and got on the second carriage. Same thing happens every day.
I'm not complaining about my oodles of space, I just find it weird.


Or people want to stand next to the door that lets them off by their relevant station exit.

I generally go and stand in the carriage that will drop me off exactly at the right point to swiftly swan off out of the station.

That said, I don’t think any of the carriages on my train are at all empty.

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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:42 
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Trooper wrote:
In other commuting news, my train home has 12 carriages, the first stop is half an hour into the journey.

People are always crowded into the vestibules, standing up in the last half of the train, with the rest of the seats all taken.

I'm currently sitting in a six seat section, all on my lonesome, because I walked down to the front of the train and got on the second carriage. Same thing happens every day.
I'm not complaining about my oodles of space, I just find it weird.


Or people want to stand next to the door that lets them off by their relevant station exit.

I generally go and stand in the carriage that will drop me off exactly at the right point to swiftly swan off out of the station.

That said, I don’t think any of the carriages on my train are at all empty.


Good point, but it's a 30 minute journey, would you stand for half an hour, just to get out the station 30 seconds faster?


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 13:37 
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Last time I came back to the UK after a long break, I sat in one of those middle seats on the One/Anglia service out to Hertfordshire. Bloke next to me wasn't happy, he spent the next 15 minutes with his elbow in my side. He wasn't especially big, but perhaps felt the middle was his. I was too culture-shocked to say or do anything - nothing remotely comparable had happened to me anywhere else. After Heathrow tube station and blank-faced people in everyone's way as we tried to get in, it was quite the come-down welcome back.

I had a minor win, mind. At one point I glanced at him and he immediately piped up with a leer, and "alright?" I smiled at him and said "yeah, just fine, thanks".

But still, those 3-seats are just on the thin side of big enough to actually seat 3.


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 14:21 
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Findus Fop wrote:
Kern wrote:
If all the two-person seats in a carriage have one spare seat each, I will pick the one with a bag on it.


100% :this:

Or if they're sitting in the aisle with a spare window seat.

Though I was thinking about Trooper's unaware nemesis on this morning's commute. What if I am unwittingly someone's hated nemesis? What have I been doing wrong? I found myself getting weirdly wound up about this hypothetical antagonist.


I nearly always sit in the aisle seat with the space by the window, I put my bag on that seat (cleaner than the floor) so if I fall asleep, it's harder for someone to try and steal it or get anything from it. It's also easier to get something out of the bag if I need to.

If the bus/train is busy I'll move the bag to between my feet, and if someone needs to sit next to me, they can have the window seat and I'll keep the aisle seat.

Much rather that, than be hemmed in by them. I also try and sit on the right side, so I can stretch my left leg into the aisle if I need to, as that knee often gets twitchy.

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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
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Malc wrote:
Findus Fop wrote:
Kern wrote:
If all the two-person seats in a carriage have one spare seat each, I will pick the one with a bag on it.


100% :this:

Or if they're sitting in the aisle with a spare window seat.

Though I was thinking about Trooper's unaware nemesis on this morning's commute. What if I am unwittingly someone's hated nemesis? What have I been doing wrong? I found myself getting weirdly wound up about this hypothetical antagonist.


I nearly always sit in the aisle seat with the space by the window, I put my bag on that seat (cleaner than the floor) so if I fall asleep, it's harder for someone to try and steal it or get anything from it. It's also easier to get something out of the bag if I need to.

If the bus/train is busy I'll move the bag to between my feet, and if someone needs to sit next to me, they can have the window seat and I'll keep the aisle seat.

Much rather that, than be hemmed in by them. I also try and sit on the right side, so I can stretch my left leg into the aisle if I need to, as that knee often gets twitchy.

I bet you leave the house without makeup on because you can do it on the train and let everyone else suffer their commute in the misery of flailing arms and dust storms too.


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 14:31 
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Malc wrote:
Findus Fop wrote:
Kern wrote:
If all the two-person seats in a carriage have one spare seat each, I will pick the one with a bag on it.


100% :this:

Or if they're sitting in the aisle with a spare window seat.

Though I was thinking about Trooper's unaware nemesis on this morning's commute. What if I am unwittingly someone's hated nemesis? What have I been doing wrong? I found myself getting weirdly wound up about this hypothetical antagonist.


I nearly always sit in the aisle seat with the space by the window, I put my bag on that seat (cleaner than the floor) so if I fall asleep, it's harder for someone to try and steal it or get anything from it. It's also easier to get something out of the bag if I need to.

If the bus/train is busy I'll move the bag to between my feet, and if someone needs to sit next to me, they can have the window seat and I'll keep the aisle seat.

Much rather that, than be hemmed in by them. I also try and sit on the right side, so I can stretch my left leg into the aisle if I need to, as that knee often gets twitchy.


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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
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 Post subject: Re: Dante's Commute
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Managed to grab a forward facing window seat in my car this morning.

Had my bag next to me on another window seat.

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Zardoz wrote:
Managed to grab a forward facing window seat in my car this morning.

Had my bag next to me on another window seat.

Same here! AND I was playing music without my headphones in!


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All of these things might be fine and dandy in the provinces, but on a rush hour Tube train they'll get you lynched. And you couldn't assemble a jury inside the M25 that would convict the killers.


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Yeah, you can.


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I bet you don't put down the handrest between the seats either.

I'm too big for those things. I need the space to spread a bit. Especially as the leg room is often lacking...
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Stood next to nemesis on the tube today and caught a glimpse at his phone.
Fucking Angry fucking Birds! That's what he is doing as he meanders around all over the shop.


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Fucking Angry fucking Birds!


Is that a more extreme version of Tinder?

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Stood next to nemesis on the tube today and caught a glimpse at his phone.
Fucking Angry fucking Birds! That's what he is doing as he meanders around all over the shop.

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Jesus Malc, is that your tip poking out?

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