Single ticket please... No, I'm not coming back...
Using 3 different London Underground lines every day, I know a fair bit about travel trauma.

However, one question has always bothered me:

Why, when people choose to end their lives by jumping in front of a train, do they choose to do it during the fucking rush hour?

That's just selfish. I sympathise that they may not be happy, but couldn't they wait 'til half past seven?

/hull
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 29 May 2008, 16:03, 4 replies)

No way
If and when I choose to off myself, I'm going to fuck up as many people as I can.
This might be a clocktower, or a massive explosive device, or in front of a train at Wembley for the cup final.
( Cawl, Thu 29 May 2008, 16:04, closed)

DIT
Having been stuck in an underground tunnel for 2 hours at hyde park corner in 90 degree heat at rush hour due to a suicide I can relate to this. We had to break the doors down to get off the train. Scary.

I always feel dreadful for the driver, or the people on the platform too, no one needs to see that. I guess it's "my life has been miserable, and as one last fuck you, I'm going to screw up your day."

I'd hate to think I could ever be in a place where I could even contemplate that.

*shudders*
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Thu 29 May 2008, 16:20, closed)

on many's an occasion
it has nearly been me.

I spent six months deliberately and carefully maintaining three points of contact with the platform wall as the train pulled in. My shrink described this as "a useful coping mechanism".
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 29 May 2008, 18:43, closed)

Attention, give it to me
They do it at rush hour so the maximum amount of people notice, I guess...
Someone did it to my train when I was on the way to a job interview. *How* rude?!
(SpongyMonkey is an honorary East Anglian on, Thu 29 May 2008, 23:35, closed)