How to survive April Fools on the trains

[GodAtum]

As tomorrow is April Fools' Day I'm dreading commuting. Most years some idiot always decides to prank people on the train. Maybe I'm being a killjoy but I dont think it's acceptable to spray people with a water gun when they are going to work!

 

[jon0844]

I am fairly sure it won't happen to most people. You just seem to be very unlucky.

 

[CardiffKid]

As tomorrow is April Fools' Day I'm dreading commuting.

The rest of your life and outlook must be pretty damn awesome if that's what you're worried about.

 

[cjohnson]

I'm sure some guards/drivers have pulled a few harmless April Fools pranks in their time...

"This train will divide en route at Horsham. Passengers for stations to Bognor Regis please make sure you are sitting on the left hand side of the train..."

 

[jon0844]

Or the classic one;

"Trains are running as normal today, with no delays"

I never fall for it though.

 

[overtonchris]

As tomorrow is April Fools' Day I'm dreading commuting. Most years some idiot always decides to prank people on the train. Maybe I'm being a killjoy but I dont think it's acceptable to spray people with a water gun when they are going to work!

Whilst I wouldn't want to arrive at work wet - or covered with anything more unsavoury - April Fool's Day is a custom that's gone back for hundred's of years and can, if carried through with a bit of thought , give a bit of a laugh and a lift to many to lighten what can be a dreary, boring, mundane day to day existence. Of course only my opinion...and I am a Fool!!

 

[AndyNLondon]

Or the classic one;

"Trains are running as normal today, with no delays"

I never fall for it though.

Isn't the standard response to that, "well, which one is it?"

 

[Smudger105e]

to spray people with a water gun when they are going to work!

I wouldn't consider that as an April Fool prank, just horseplay.

 

[Flamingo]

I'm sure some guards/drivers have pulled a few harmless April Fools pranks in their time...

"This train will divide en route at Horsham. Passengers for stations to Bognor Regis please make sure you are sitting on the left hand side of the train..."

I've never heard that

 

[455driver]

I've never heard that

Dont even think about it!

"Customers for Reading need to sit on the left hand side of the train, Customers for Paddington need to sit on the right hand side!"

 

[Flamingo]

I'm on days off, otherwise...

 

[Zoidberg]

As tomorrow is April Fools' Day I'm dreading commuting. Most years some idiot always decides to prank people on the train. Maybe I'm being a killjoy but I dont think it's acceptable to spray people with a water gun when they are going to work!

I don't know know effective it will be, but Southern and South West Trains have banned water pistols and their ilk from railway premises on 1st April.

 

[fowler9]

Blimey. When did spraying people with water become an April Fool joke? Probably about the same time Mischief Night was invented.

 

[jon0844]

I thought it was mostly about stupid joke stories, not pranks (besides the usual first of the month things you do when you're about 5).

 

[causton]

I thought it was mostly about stupid joke stories, not pranks (besides the usual first of the month things you do when you're about 5).

*passes Hornsey sidings* Yellow wagon, no return!

 

[deltic1989]

*passes Hornsey sidings* Yellow wagon, no return!

That game is always fun to play with cars in Derby. If you class taxi's as cars that is.

 

[Mojo]

I've never heard of someone being squirted with a water gun on a train as an April fool gag!

 

[ainsworth74]

I've never heard of someone being squirted with a water gun as an April fool full stop!

 

[Mojo]

I've never heard of someone being squirted with a water gun as an April fool full stop!

Not quite the same but I did see a video on YouTube of some Chavs (or Neds as they would probably be called) throwing water balloons at customers as they got off a train in suburban Glasgow.

 

[Zoidberg]

Not quite the same but I did see a video on YouTube of some Chavs (or Neds as they would probably be called) throwing water balloons at customers as they got off a train in suburban Glasgow.

Was on the S-Bahn in Munich many years ago. At one station there was a group of youths on the platform and when the train stopped, a couple nearest the train pushed open some of the hopper style windows while those further away threw water filled balloons at the open windows.

Some folk got wet - but not me since I was further up the carriage.