Men who, when about to sit in a seat on the opposite side of the aisle to me, make a big production of taking their jacket off, while sticking their bum in my face and waving their elbows around with no regard to their proximity to other people. Then, when preparing to leave the train, bending over to collect their bags off the window seat, again shoving their bum within an inch of my head. Not briefly either, sometimes I have to skew my shoulder out of the way to avoid the offending bottom while the owner has a good rummage around!
People wearing backpacks who barge down the aisle swinging their rucksack into the heads of all and sundry. Both of these happened to me yesterday!
People wearing rucksacks on full and standing trains, and not taking them off, again bumping them into the faces of any seated passengers, while occupying more standing space than necessary.
People who board first, then spend ages stowing their cases in the luggage racks, while preventing those behind them from getting past. Meanwhile those who boarded at the other end of the coach are piling on and taking all the best seats in the whole length of the coach!
Why do I always seem to pick the door where there's a woman with a buggy and a small child getting off, along with a couple of very elderly folk who can hardly walk even with their sticks, and for good measure followed up by someone with two of the largest suitcases ever produced, that they can barely heave off the train? :roll:
Mobile phone bores. But these are so commonplace now that I resort to (hopefully not leaky) earphones to try to ignore them and their banality.
One that I am curious about - people who board at a major station (in yesterday's case Manchester Piccadilly) and when the guard comes round after Stockport inspecting tickets, the young lass asks for a single to Wilmslow with a railcard. He sells her one. No reprimand for not purchasing at the station where she had ample opportunity. Makes me wonder whether she hoped to avoid paying... no, I can't imagine that would be the case :roll: .
Also it's rare that anyone is ever threatened with punishment for feet on Merseyrail seats. Seems the line of least resistance is a brief request to remove them. Makes a bit of a mockery of the so-called bylaws.