Common courtesy (RIP)

You go (girl!) - sounds horrendous - glad I'm not a train commuter!

Re. number 2.

That is DISGUSTING!!

Urgh poor you. You are braver then me though by saying something to them, i would have sat there muttering under my breath?

I feel your pain.

And I'll raise you this one.

I'm a Lehman employee. Getting the train home on Monday there was a young city worker - not long out of uni, got the impression he's on a graduate scheme somewhere.

He's on the phone to a mate saying "did you hear about lehman" (pronouncing it lay-man, which really annoyed me). "It's gone tits up, all my mates there have lost their jobs, it's f***ing hilarious". Then went on to say "I don't know how they're going to pay their rent, they've just taken on flats". "Still, they'll get a good redundancy payoff".

He went on and on for nearly 30 mins, ringing lots of different friends to tell them the "good" news.

I so very nearly got up and slapped him round the head shouting no, there's no redundancy pay and we don't know if we're getting paid this month (although we've been told since that we will). And we're real people here who are all out of work, it's not hilarious.

To be fair, some of the other people in the carriage were sending just as dirty looks as I was. Idiot.

Ahh, commuting on public transport is grim. I sympathise.

But the thought of a smartly dressed city type belming at you did make me laugh, no matter how disgusting she was being.

wow, a dirty look, how brave ?. i d have told him he was being a thoughtless cnut and if he didnt pack it in i d shove his phone up his arse so far he d be hearing the nokia ring until christmas.

courtesy does seem to have taken a nose dive, i can think of many occasions where people havent said thanks for my holding the door open for them and similar.

Ah well, take some comfort that the insufferable little prick will find himself in a worse situation soon enough.

P&AP - it's things like that which make me drive from the West Midlands into Docklands, rather than face the grimness of other commuters.

I know I wimped out. But I didn't know if I'd be able to restrain myself from saying everything in my head and actually slapping him. I had wonderful speeches going round my head of what I was going to say and then totally bottled it from saying anything.

For Grim Commuter picking her nose, I'm afraid I'd have gone for the childish approach

(loud voice)"Urrrrrrrr. Yuck!!!! She's picking her nose and wiping her bogies on the seat. Urrrrrrr!!!" - whilst pointing at her.

Waaaaah! brilliant ?

As for the twat on mobile with the "good" news - I would have shoved him out of the doors of the carriage at the next stop. Insenstive little prick ?

All grim and I feel your pain but bogeys on seats? ? People really do that? I going to start taking plastic sheeting onto public transport with me. ? I know the seats arent the Orient Express but sitting on someone's discarded nose muscus? Bleugh.

Apparently so. There were some grateful glances from my fellow commuters that she had finally stopped doing it. I can't believe she hadn't noticed 6 pairs of eyes watching her every rootle with horrified fascination.

I thought chewing gum on the seats was bad enough, but I even saw one lad cough up a huge mass of phlegm before depositing it loudly on the train floor.

Dirty, dirty beatch. Everyone of those people would have got a row from me.

I did once see a man pick his nose and eat it on a tube. He was engrossed in his paper so I imagine wasn't really thinking about what he was doing. I obviously told him and the rest of the carriage.

Grim.

I'll raise you a teenager picking nose and eating contents at the next table to us at breakfast on Sunday. Right in my line of sight. And a table full of men on the other side where every other word was a swearword. OK so it was a travel inn not Petrus, but what's to stop people behaving with a little bit of consideration?

One that sticks in my mind was a smartly dressed bloke on the jubilee line heading for canary wharf - so most likely a banker or lawyer.

He was pulling eyelashes out, studying them, then picking his nose with them and sucking the contents off the eyelash, eating the eyelash and then starting the process all over again.

It was disgusting to watch yet grossly riveting.

ewwww ewwww ewwww that is one of the grimmest things I have ever read on Hitched. Ewww.

I think he trained me for my current job. If not, the man that did also picks and eats his own eye snot.

My recent belter.

Coming home from shopping the other day on the train, I am sitting in the carriage with the toilet at the end because its easy to get the pram on.

Lady in her 50's got on - very smartly dressed came to use the toilet. We were still at the station at this point and 10 minutes away from departure.

Asks me if the toilet is working - I say "erm no, the Out of Order sign is lit". She starts effing and blinding about how disgusting it is and how desperate she is for a wee. I tentatively suggest that she easily has time to get off and use the toilets at the station, to which she replies "I shouldn't effing have to". Well no, it would be good if the train toilet was working but as it isn't and there is a viable and easily usable option available no problems.

She spends so long effing and blinding that she is jigging about and stomps off back to her seat.

She gets off at my station 20 minutes later with her friend, no longer jigging and saying "that'll serve them right for not having working toilets"

My mind is now boggling as to what she did ?

So grim.

Uh, so many grim tales <shudder>

It's not even common courtesey, it's basic hygiene in half the cases. What kind of parents did these people have?

These stories are vile. I feel grateful that I just had a spotty youth next to me who kept sniffing loudly and wetly and farting, also loudly and wetly. I had move and said to the person accross from me "Sorry I have to move, I'm in danger of being asphyxiated"

These are so grim, I’m glad I commute in my own little car on my own

[jaw on floor] I can't believe some of these! That eyelash thing is revolting ?

So, so glad I don't need public transport to get to work.

Ewwwwww... that eyelash / nose thing just caused me to wretch. That is beyond grim the dirty barsteward ?

that actually just made my stomach lurch?

Dear God! I can't believe some of these!

I use public transport and I'm pleased to say I've never come across anything like any of these, though it is just the bus from our village to town so most people would be deterred by the thought of everyone talking about what they did.

I actually feel sick after reading some of those ?