I can't remember having a really mind-bogglingly awful experience on public transport,
but a memorably unpleasant incident occurred when I was going up to visit a friend in Wilberfoss (a small village in East Yorkshire.)
I'd just got off the train at York, studied the timetable and worked out where I needed to catch the bus - miraculously catching it just before it was due to pull off and baggsying a window seat with a decent view. Then, a rather podgy middle-aged lady, having nowhere else to sit, plonked herself down beside me.

Now I don't like it at all when people sit too close to me. And this lady apparently dozed off about three seconds after the bus got going, and every time the bus turned left she'd slump onto me like a big bag of jelly, causing me to cringe involuntarily.

This carried on throughout the whole 10 miles to Wilberfoss - it was one of the most uncomfortable 25 minutes I've ever experienced. And the very scond I got up to leave, she was shuffling onto the newly-vacated seat and glaring at me as if I'd oppressed her God-given right to sit in that particular seat. To this day, I'm convinced she 'fell asleep' deliberately to try and make me bugger off.

I tell thee, they're a right weird lot over there in the East Riding.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 4 Jun 2008, 21:03, 2 replies)

weird lot?
Are you referring to me?
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:02, closed)

You're not a native.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 1:17, closed)