I wasn't suggesting they were poor etiquette. If you look at the post in context, it was a light-hearted reply to an equally light-hearted remark about guaranteeing yourself space on a crowded train. If I had suggested they were poor etiquette, I would be guilty on multiple charges of each count: it was a tangent, though, and I do apologise.
Oh yes. Also, one or all of the following:
1) Wearing a thick winter coat on a very warm day in the middle of summer
2) Continuing to wear a rather large face mask despite COVID restrictions/high numbers being long past
3) Having an enormous rucksack yet resolutely refusing to stick it in the luggage rack
4) Clutching a rather tattered notebook with lots of colour-coded train numbers scrawled on it in appalling handwriting
5) Talking to total strangers (if in the south)/not talking to total strangers (in the north)
6) Reading a rather intellectual-looking book
7) Standing by the door waiting to get off several minutes before your train is even approaching the station you wish to get off at
generally marks you out as the sort of oddball that no one wants to sit (or stand) next to, definitely from personal experience anyway!
Similarly - Don't throw your rucksack around with carefree abandon when taking it off or putting it on, and mind it's corners as you walk down the aisle to avoid clipping shoulders (or heads). Particularly on 2+3 layouts. If your rucksack is too heavy to handle slowly it's probably too much weight to be putting on your back.
Students will sit anywhere!
How can one think it is suitable to make a homophobic comment to two women who were travelling to one of the most LGBT friendly cities? How
I would hope that wasn't "unwritten".
Discrimination act 2010
The person in question immediately realised the offence they had caused and became apologetic.
Yes indeed. I should've reworded my post but any discrimination of any kind should never be tolerated and such offences should be reported to nearest railway staff or the police if possible,
That's one helluva unlucky guy.
Genius. Made my evening.
I can't see how it hurts anyone else for someone to be applying makeup!
For one,there's the smell of some makeup, which may trigger allergies for other passengers. How would some of those (mainly women) feel about men fitting in a shave whilst sitting on a crowded train?
I leave the newspaper on the table or seat to be fair. So the next person can read it?
Yeah, I haven’t been doing this for a while (pandemic etc) but always did this and appreciate when it happens to me if I’ve been unable to grab a copy of I’m in a hurry or running late etc.
If it's any consolation one thing I do when changing ends and tidying my trains as a conductor is survey abandoned newspapers - decent ones get folded and placed neatly on tables, wrecked ones get binned. Little things no one probably notices
I think many of the suggestions in this thread are serious, being either reasonable or rather obsessed with others on 'their' train.
Unfortunately many people do use the car instead of the train for these very reasons - and the result is congested roads and pollution. Undoubtedly the biggest drawbacks to using the trains are service reliability and (for non-advanced tickets) cost. But anti-social behaviours also put people off travelling by train. Whilst not everything in this thread constitutes that, there really should be much more effort made to clamp down and punish the worst of such conduct.
