people playing music on buses

[MrMoves]

How about taking an air horn on the bus?  Direct towards those who annoy you.  Might get you thrown off, of course!

Alternatively, don't let it bother you.  Accept some people will always do things that annoy others.

For example: A group of around 15 mobile homes and caravans were recently parked on the verge of a busy side road around a mile from my home.  That's ok with me, I'll slow down from the 60 mph limit to avoid killing their children and animals which were running wild.  I'll ignore the rubbish, tyres, plastic bags and other crap blowing around that they left because I know the already stretched local council will clear it up.

Am I bothered?

[tantrum]

Sometimes I wish I had a gun.....

[roverthtaeh]

Cliff Richard started it

[Claw75]

I really hate when someone puts there bag down on the empty seat next to them on a busy train or bus and then give you that filthy look when you ask them to move it. Like there damn bag paid for a ticket. GRRRRRRRR!!!!

oh god yeah - don't even get me started on this one......too late!

I was travelling on the tube, about 7 months pregnant, and really needed to sit down with my back straight as it had been giving me gip.  There was one free seat, but a woman had put all her shopping backs on the ledge along the back of it, jutting over. So I could have perched on the seat, but I asked instead if she would mind moving them so I could sit properly.  She gave me a filthy look and said "where do you expect me to put them?"  "on the floor in front of your feet?", I suggest.  Another filthy look and a tut, and she mumbles something about not putting her shopping on a dirty floor.  I am flabbergasted to be honest, and don't know what to say.  Another woman sitting opposite offers me her seat, i accept and apologise explaining that I need to sit comfortably,  and the other woman perches on the seat in front of the shopping. 

Bag lady then starts going on about "who does she [me] think she is?  Suppose she things she should have a bloody rocking chair installed for her comfort"

 

[Acidmouse]

God dont talk about the London tubes, only place I have ever seen in the world where people were walking over an injured granny who fell down the steps.

[roverthtaeh]

God dont talk about the London tubes, only place I have ever seen in the world where people were walking over an injured granny who fell down the steps.

You've never been to Bradford then?

[Claw75]

God dont talk about the London tubes, only place I have ever seen in the world where people were walking over an injured granny who fell down the steps.

doesn't surprise me.  A few weeks ago I got sent literally flying off the tube onto the platform as I was getting off the tube, by people pushing to get on rather than waiting.  A couple of people helped me up and asked me if I was OK, but the offending people getting on the train didn't even glance backwards.

I don't know what it is, but there is something about going down into that underground in rush hour that turns 85% of otherwise perfectly good mannered people into complete animals.

[Acidmouse]

God dont talk about the London tubes, only place I have ever seen in the world where people were walking over an injured granny who fell down the steps.

You've never been to Bradford then?

Not unless I can really really help doing so, I have been 3 times in 30 years and I live in Leeds, thats more then enough.

[RED-DOG]

I tried to play music on a bus, but I burned my lips on the exhaust pipe!

[bolt pp]

yes - it is extremely annoying.  Perhaps even worse than the people who have their ipods so loud that you can hear every word.

   that really is me!!  never on a bus though, just going around in my day to day life, maybe on a train.

But i cant get on buses, too crowded, dirty, and bumpy, ive avoided getting on a bus for the past 5-6 years even electing to walk miles on several occassions when ive felt too sick to get on any kind of transport but i'm a bit odd like that about getting on public transport or in cars, the only type of transportation in which i feel truely comfortable is a black cab, i mustve spent thousands on those things in the last 5 or so years.

[MrsLime]

Once I was on a bus and listening to a Frank Sinatra CD on my MP3 player.  I never realised how loud it was until I was about to get off at the next stop and a guy said to me " I like his other CD, do you have the Greatest Hits?".  He was sitting about 8 seats away from me 

I hope you have 'Songs For Swingin Lovers', which is a perfect album.

'Sinatra and Basie' is good too.

[mikkyT]

I've noticed this a hell of a lot lately. Maybe its because I'm banned so I have to use public transport. The last time I used buses would be 2000, and it seems the advent of cheap pocket sized technology that plays songs through speakers has allowed the youth of today to offend elderley ladies the world around! When gheto blasters where popular in the 80s I didnt see kids sitting on the back of a bus blurting their sounds out on a daily basis!

Thankfully I listen to my mp3 player with my headphones in so I don't have to listen to the next internet DJs rendition of scratching and shouting over the top of "Cos Everytime We Touch I get this feeling".

[BrumBilly]

I hear you Claw. I've seen pregnant women and very elderly poeple made to stand on the tube/bus. Gets to me everytime I see it happen but I can only give up my seat once at a time!

I remember when I was on sticks learning to walk again travelling on public transport with my brother on a wkend visit away from hospital. Interesting journey, my brother holding me up helping me keep my balance while he was still in agony from a serious op. We must have looked a sight.

I can well believe that passers by stepped over an elderly lady in need. I made the mistake of stepping off from a packed mainline train to allow people off only to fall into the gap between the platform and the train. Very painful and left me with severe bruising. Nobody came to my aid, maybe due to the very pink shirt I was wearing for 'pink day' at work..lol...(the train guy held the doors for me to struggle back on tho...so that was something).

Not all doom and gloom tho. Walking home 3 days ago, I move to the left of the pavement making room for a couple to pass freely (can't abide folk that walk right between couples) and as we draw close to each other the next thing I know I hit the deck. They came to see I was ok which I was apart from cuts/bruises. There was a length of thick wire tied in a circle just left on the ground, just wide enough for my feet to step into and allow me to trip myself up. Would have looked funny from a distance methinks.

'They' reckon that science in our schools is being dumbed down and the kids haven't a clue about the laws of physics. I agree. Atleast if the evidence of queuing for transport is anything to go by. You need to allow people to get off in order to get on. Why don't they get it?

[mikkyT]

Maybe its a London thing all this ill-mannered-ness at rush hour. I've caught the train at various times into Glasgow central whch is the busiest underground I've been on outside of London, Liverpool and Paris and nobody seems to have this problem. Scottish people have their faults, but this isn't one of them. And most of them will say "Areet" to strangers in the street, most of them also getting an a similar greeting back.

The trains are remarkably clean too. And the single decker buses that serve my area. Maybe its 'cos they are new.

[BrumBilly]

Glad to hear it's not the same up there. Birmingham is certainly as bad as London and it's getting worse (and that's not just me getting old...it really is beyond a joke).