Oh God...
Ever tried taking a bass guitar in a hard case through the London Underground in rush hour?
( Cawl, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:17, 15 replies)

Not in a hard case
But taking my bass on the tube, in rush hour, in its soft case, is a nightmare.

I blame everyone else, and not my own clumsiness.
( Moey, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:26, closed)

Yeah, it's not much fun.
I blame the sheep-like masses.
( Cawl, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:27, closed)

Oh my
I bet you're popular when you do that!
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:30, closed)

In all seriousness
You would imagine that anywhere else in the world people would recognise that you're carrying something cumbersome and give you some room. Somehow people on the tube see you as an inconvenience and do their best to make life more awkward.

I once offered help to a young woman struggling with a cello and she gave me the funniest look, as though I was going to steal it...
( Moey, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:32, closed)

I hate it
but then, I'm also guilty of wanting to kill anyone with a suitcase on teh tube. Or anyone eating. Eugh.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:39, closed)

@Gunter
yeah, but were you going to steal it?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:39, closed)

I'll see your bass guitar...
...and raise you a bass guitar, albeit in a soft case, but with a bass amp strapped to a converted granny trolley.

It's when I've got those in tow that I'm all too painfully aware of people's ignorance of the "Please Let Passengers Off The Train First."

You stupid, useless twats. If a large gentlemen has a large slab of wood strapped to his back and a 12" speaker on a trolley, letting him off the train before you tried to board creates more space for your illogically selfish selves. Why can you not see the sense in this? Or are you just afraid that if you don't get on absolutely right now, this fucking minute then the driver's going to hit the gas and go speeding away down the tunnel, making rude faces out the window at you?
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 29 May 2008, 16:09, closed)

al
I may have been thinking about it, but how could she know that...

Unless I was thinking out loud at the time.

I do that.

"Offer to help her with her cello, then steal it and run away laughing".

Thinking back on it now, perhaps that's what I was doing.

Need to stop that.
( Moey, Thu 29 May 2008, 16:29, closed)

I'll raise
A guitar in a hard case, AND a bass in a soft case on the Glasgow underground at rush hour.

It was just a bad, bad idea.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 29 May 2008, 16:56, closed)

How about...
Uxbridge on the underground/DLR, soft case but still...huge fucker!
( Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Thu 29 May 2008, 20:06, closed)

why?
if you go on the tube at rush hour with a guitar you deserve any dirty look you get.

we have business to do, you are a dosser musician
($wift, Thu 29 May 2008, 22:29, closed)

@$wift
We're on the tube at rush hour with our guitars because we have to spend the day at work before we can go and be dosser musicians in the evening.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 30 May 2008, 9:51, closed)

No sympathy
Ever tried taking a CELLO in a hard case through the London Underground in rush hour?

Actually, it makes a pretty good battering ram.
(grandmasterfluffles Come to my Armageddon party on, Fri 30 May 2008, 14:21, closed)

I'll see your Cello
and raise you a full sized Synthesiser in a hard case with a collapsible stand attached with bungee cord to the outside and a 1960's 160W Marshall valve amp on castors from Neasden on the Jubilee Line to Bromley by Bow twice a week for 3 years.

Popular? me?
(MadBouncyDog Barking at the moon since, Fri 30 May 2008, 19:52, closed)

how about
a french horn (sorry i'm not as cool as you). It is designed to be the most malshaped instrument ever.
(alpha doesn't have a witty phrase to write here, Fri 30 May 2008, 20:24, closed)