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Got the idea for this thread from the reserved seat thread but....

Say you are sat in a carriage, around a table, and end up "eyeballing" a complete stranger.

Do people find this uncomfortable (as I do) and what tips ar there for avoiding same?
 
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I usually just say something - small talk - especially if it is a regular traveler you see all the time. A few words quickly dispels any discomfort.
 
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Again a book.

But I'm afraid if its a pretty girl then no amount of books will help me :lol:
 
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Again a book.

But I'm afraid if its a pretty girl then no amount of books will help me :lol:
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I find that sunglasses help in that situation. Not only does the girl not notice you ogling her it has the added advantage of the MRS not noticing either.
 
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Well just to qualify matters, the last time I was travelling (first class back from London), I was sitting opposite a JSP lookalike (having partaken of a substantial number of "complimentary bevies" in company of same, NB: women seem to have an ability to extract the maximum benefit from these situations) noting that this was a most satisfactory experience.

Whereas, in the same situation, sat opposite some leering geezer would have been a far less desirabable experience.
 
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sox said:
well just to qualify matters, the last time i was travelling (first class back from london), i was sitting opposite a jsp lookalike (having partaken of a substantial number of "complimentary bevies" in company of same, nb: Women seem to have an ability to extract the maximum benefit from these situations) noting that this was a most satisfactory experience.
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jsp wtf?
 
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OKT. Think I'd prefer the leering geezer if the alternative was a JSP look- sound- and pontificate-alike sat opposite.
 
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A broadsheet newspaper (preferably the Yorkshire Post or Press and Journal, but the Daily Telegraph is also good) makes a very effective barrier. I usually spend most of my time looking out of the window, but it can be decidedly uncomfortable. If I don't have a newspaper, I tend to stare at a point down the far end of the coach and stop blinking. This 'thousand-yard stare' produces a vaguely-similar effect, but is not directed at anyone.
 
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Travelling down on the Far North Line from Thurso, there was this absolute beauty who boarded at Beauly and sat on the other side of the carriage from me. I spent the ride to Inverness looking at her reflection in the window. Every time I come across the Far North Line I recall the beauty from Beauly and can still see her in my minds eye.
 
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Travelling down on the Far North Line from Thurso, there was this absolute beauty who boarded at Beauly and sat on the other side of the carriage from me. I spent the ride to Inverness looking at her reflection in the window. Every time I come across the Far North Line I recall the beauty from Beauly and can still see her in my minds eye.
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*sighs*

Sounds like when I was talking about door gapping in Acton and the other engineer seemed to be rather distracted by a female...
I'll honestly never know why, I don't go round gorping at passengers all the time, or any of the time really, so I just don't get it.
 
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Travelling down on the Far North Line from Thurso, there was this absolute beauty who boarded at Beauly and sat on the other side of the carriage from me. I spent the ride to Inverness looking at her reflection in the window. Every time I come across the Far North Line I recall the beauty from Beauly and can still see her in my minds eye.
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:sigh:

Reminds me of a girl called Aimée from Marseille. Also truly stunning, Mediterranean French, with long dark hair and almost black eyes (so much so that I've 'borrowed' her description for a character in a book, and some people refused to believe she existed). She was travelling to London with two friends on a day I happened to be flying home for Christmas, so we all arrived at the Gatwick ticket office together, and managed to make up a 'four' for a ticket offer. We travelled up together, I recommended a few places to see in London and so on. Never saw her again, and I've always wondered what became of her.
 
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LE Greys said:
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Reminds me of a girl called Aimée from Marseille. Also truly stunning, Mediterranean French, with long dark hair and almost black eyes (so much so that I've 'borrowed' her description for a character in a book, and some people refused to believe she existed). She was travelling to London with two friends on a day I happened to be flying home for Christmas, so we all arrived at the Gatwick ticket office together, and managed to make up a 'four' for a ticket offer. We travelled up together, I recommended a few places to see in London and so on. Never saw her again, and I've always wondered what became of her.
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You have reminded me a song from France from the early 1970's by Joe Dassin called "Elle était "oh" (She was "OH"!) I first heard it late at night listening at home in Cornwall to Radio Bretagne.

The story of the song is of a guy who sees a blonde girl who he seems to have known years before running for a train. Each time he travels to some place on the train he pictures her. Then the song gets very French and there are things about pigeons and Venice gondolas and so on. But the girl is so Ohhhhhhhh or ummmmmmm.

It's not a bad song, the beat is train-like! Pre SNCF TVG!

It can be found on U-Tube here. I only looked up the U-Tube thing as it's years since I heard the song and it's just as I remember it - and yes Joe Dassin does have a nose like a parrot.

Greetings from my bath chair!:p
 
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Most people are busy looking at phones or have their head in a book or newspaper
 
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as a female,reading this thread is hilarious
I would actually love it if I got asked out on a train. Sadly no one on my regular commute has caught my eye (although who knows if I've caught anyone's). Although I do change what train I get (it's between 3, depending on when I get up) so maybe I'm not regular enough
 
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Was once on a train between Carlisle and Newcastle and was sat a few seats from but facing one of the fittest girls I have ever seen in my life. Just had to be careful with the eyballing as her boyfriend was sat next to her. I still looked :D
 
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Wasn't on a train, but I was happy to see the cute guy in Jessops who sold me my camera is working at Jessops Mk.II. Means I have something else nice to look at other than the 5D MkIII and the L Series Lenses...

Couldn't look for too long though since my fella was stood next to me at the time ;) hehe...
 
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