Public Transport TraumaCompletely Underwhelmed writes, "I was on a bus the other day when a man got on wearing shorts, over what looked like greeny grey leggings. Then the stench hit me. The 'leggings' were a mass of open wounds, crusted with greenish solidified pus that flaked off in bits as he moved."
What's the worst public transport experience you've ever had?
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chthonic, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:13)
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Teh TubeI spent the first 18 years of my life in a village that doesn't even have a single set of traffic lights; the kind of one-horse town where the horse is a donkey, and the donkey is lame, and has only got two legs, and arthritis, and is dead.
And so, on moving to London, I spent countless hours gazing in wonder at the London Underground Tube System: a train! Underground! They come along all the time! They're trains! Underground!
The first time I was stuck on the Jubilee line due to "a person under a train" I was horrified at the absolute callousness of the announcement. Someone ends their tragic and hopeless life by throwing themselves in front of a rush-hour carriage, and it is glibly and wearily announced as "a person under a train".
Two months later as I barged my way through the ticket barriers, Oyster card in wallet and snarling at the free newspaper hander-outers, I cursed the inconsiderate suiciding bastards who felt the need to inconvenience a city of people trying to get home in time for Hollyoaks.
Still, there but for the grace of god go I.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:27,
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I feel your painI've been using the Tube since I was ten.
I now have no soul.
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mmmOn my first day after having moved to London, there was somebody underneath a train (how innocent this sounds - "underneath" - as if they'd merely decided to inspect the undercarriage).
When I turned to the guy next to me and said "My god! That's terrible!". He just said "Yeah. I'm 10 minutes late for work".
Rather than get so cynical, I now cycle everywhere.
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rofl harris, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:43,
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i live in the same sort of villiage...one road basically
the only way into town is on the bus which comes around every three hours or something
i can drive but dont have a car...
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@mrgibblesyour comment made me suppress a loud laugh in my open plan office forcing me to give chcb a click.
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djtrialprice, Thu 29 May 2008, 17:02,
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