Commuting
Riding on the train to work day in day out would be fine if it weren't for the other passengers. I could fill the entire QOTW with the things that they have done that have annoyed me.

Examples:
* women sitting there doing their make-up for the entire half-hour journey. I don't sit there having a shave, do I? One woman took this to extremes by plucking her eyebrows AND THEN HER CHIN
* people not using the luggage rack and having huge piles of bags on their laps - why?
* people talking loudly on the phone. One woman does that on my train home sometimes for the entire journey and laughs like Barney Rubble. I can hear her over my iPod.
* people who get to the ticket barrier AND THEN decide to look for their tickets as if the whole thing is a big surprise.
* tourists who get off the escalator on the tube and then just stand still - hey, don't worry about that big pile of people behind you, you just have a good look round!
* chavs who think their choice of music sounds so much better when played on their phone on the bus.
* parents who have to take their screaming brats to work.
* holidaymakers who insist on taking all their luggage on the tube at rush hour - get a bloody taxi!
* women who smother themselves in so much perfume that no-one else can breath when they are near them.
* people who text yet do not know how to use their phone and don't know how to stop the keypad beeping.

Rant over, for now. I'm sure there's more.

I wish I could say I feel better for that but now I feel quite angry!
(BearWithLittleBrain, Fri 2 May 2008, 13:39, 2 replies)

oap's
u forgot about the OAP's that arent really going anywhere but take great delight in delaying everyone and generally smelling of pish
(Gorbotronic 01100111 01101111 01110010 01100010 01101111 00001, Fri 2 May 2008, 13:42, closed)

I can add to this...
... the particular group of chavs on my bus home from work (unemployed, "no point getting a job when they're getting the dole" from their loud drunk conversations) who've taken to using external speakers with their phones to make the "music" even louder, more tinny and more distorted.

* Bus drivers who stop at lights, then rapidly alternate between accellerator and brake so luggage falls, drinks are spilled, dogs whine and babies cry.

* Parents on busses/trains who seem to have an aversion to paying any attention to their kids when they're on the bus and sit looking at nothing while their kids run wild/cry for reasons that are obvious to everyone but the parent, etc.
Especially those who don't seem to realise that if your kid is strapped into a pushchair tight and pointed directly at a skyborne nuclear fireball, it might be a bit painful and they might cry. Oh, no it's "Shaddafakap, Chantelle!".

*The complete lack of a GPS or 3G signal at inopportune moments on the way home...

*What must be a 100% utilisation of the GSM network on certain bus routes by 14-year old girls all texting each other and their friends and not sticking their phones on silent. Or anything less than "F22 at take off" volume.

*groups of teenagers fnaarring at orgasm ringtones that sound more like they've had their toes run over than an actual orgasm... especially when suffixed with "aw, man. Now ah've got tae gan an' change ma troos." *apologises for inability to type Aberdonian*
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 2 May 2008, 13:51, closed)