When did it become socially acceptable to eat smelly food on a crowded train? Something inoffensive like a Mars Bar is OK. But a good proportion of my weekend journeys are made just that little bit worse by people noisily chomping on burgers and chips.
Last week someone opening a packet of fish and chips on departure from Holyhead. Yesterday someone guzzling a bucket of KFC on the single carriage of a Heart of Wales train. Are people deliberately trying to rile me?
I take your point and raise you a group of 31 US Tourists boarding my (virtually empty-around 4 people onboard) 150 carriage at Fishguard and Goodwick all with Fish and Chips!
They were actively offering them round though to the few of us already onboard, so all was good!
Few thoughts for the thread:
-Loud drunks. Sit down, sup up and shut up. I manage it fine!
-Unduly harsh Penalty Fare schemes, I'm strongly against people being fined within a barrier line for simply approaching staff to buy a ticket, with no intention whatsoever to avoid paying as they know they'll need a ticket to leave regardless.
-West Midlands Trains' use of 350/2s on Euston-Crewe services. Or any other TOC using 3+2 seating on anything more than about an hour. (He says, on a 350/2 to London...)
-Virgin displaying "AVAILABLE IF UNOCCUPIED" above my now occupied reserved seat.
-Music/Videos being played without earphones, often loudly. I've even had-TWICE-a group of people plug a stereo in and crank up the volume! Needless to say, the guard wasn't best impressed.
-People with their feet on the seats.
-Trains with an excessive amount of seat reservations and too few unreserved seats.
-People shouting into a phone which is also on speaker. I spent a journey from Birmingham to Bristol Parkway recently wanting to get up, take someone's phone and stick it where the sun don't shine. Thankfully for him, the train broke down at Parkway...
From a staff perspective:
-This train has 8 carriages. USE ALL OF THEM. Some people would seemingly rather stand in crush loaded conditions that walk down the platform.
-TOC specific tickets and advances on short journeys that really shouldn't have them. Yes, Manchester Piccadilly-Manchester Airport I'm looking at you. There are others I'm sure.