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Your worst train/tube/bus journey
The title is pretty self explanatory.
I read something today, that reminded me of a mishap I got into last year.
I was on the train home after visiting some friends in London, when a man, with a bag full of alcohol, came and sat in front of me. Ten minutes after the train had left the station, the bottles of alcohol just suddenly burst and went all over me and the windows around me! The man's sitting there (dry, may I add) laughing his head off, and I'm fuming, covered in alcohol, that ******* stank.
I got up to move to a different seat, and everyone around me covered their nose and moved away, as if I was a teenage binge drinker, that just went crazy.
As if that wasn't enough, my dad was picking me up from the station, and as soon as he saw me, he burst out laughing as well.
He then proceeded to tell everyone what happened, including the man at the dry cleaners who wanted to know what happened to my jacket.
So, what's been your worst train/tube/bus journey?
I read something today, that reminded me of a mishap I got into last year.
I was on the train home after visiting some friends in London, when a man, with a bag full of alcohol, came and sat in front of me. Ten minutes after the train had left the station, the bottles of alcohol just suddenly burst and went all over me and the windows around me! The man's sitting there (dry, may I add) laughing his head off, and I'm fuming, covered in alcohol, that ******* stank.
I got up to move to a different seat, and everyone around me covered their nose and moved away, as if I was a teenage binge drinker, that just went crazy.
As if that wasn't enough, my dad was picking me up from the station, and as soon as he saw me, he burst out laughing as well.
He then proceeded to tell everyone what happened, including the man at the dry cleaners who wanted to know what happened to my jacket.
So, what's been your worst train/tube/bus journey?
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I was getting on a train, and the conductor woman told me to wait until the train split for me to get on. She said it had split, so i could get on. And then with one foot on the step, the train shook so violently that i was soooo close to falling over. 
It freaked me out so so much, that i could have got a leg through the crack or whatever, and (despite this being 7 years ago now) i'm still kinda scard of trains now. 
It freaked me out so so much, that i could have got a leg through the crack or whatever, and (despite this being 7 years ago now) i'm still kinda scard of trains now. becky.fm
I was getting on a train, and the conductor woman told me to wait until the train split for me to get on. She said it had split, so i could get on. And then with one foot on the step, the train shook so violently that i was soooo close to falling over. It freaked me out so so much, that i could have got a leg through the crack or whatever, and (despite this being 7 years ago now) i'm still kinda scard of trains now.
It freaked me out so so much, that i could have got a leg through the crack or whatever, and (despite this being 7 years ago now) i'm still kinda scard of trains now. Lol, I get scared at some stations, where there's a big gap between the platform and the train itself. I have to actually jump sometimes.
wosrt bus journey, was a busy double decker bus, i was about 13 ish with my family. it was going to be about 45 min journey. so i was sat next to my sister and then the bus stops and this tramp with a kebab gets on (he was pissed too cos he reeked) he sat behind me and my sister and started trying to chat up my mum, he was also trying to talk to me too. then my sister got up and sat with my mum leaving an empty seat next to me which this weirdo sat in, while the kebab smell was making me puke. he started talking to me and being really rude, my mum was telling him to go away but he didnt. eventually he got off and went in a pub. then the people who were also on the bus go to us "are you ok?" etc. yeah that was bizzare. i can still smell the kebab 
I was on a train by myself for the first time... and what do you know, the train got stuck at a station for about 45 mins cos of technical faults I was scared lol, kept asking an old lady what was going on!
I was scared lol, kept asking an old lady what was going on!Thats easy, i was in london with a friend going to see MCR (this WAS 2005) and it was a few weeks after the london bombings and i was on a train to london and this guy sat opposite us with a balaclava on with just eyeholes..i spent the whole journey praying and looking for escape route!!!
on the last train home, weird drunk guy came and stroked my hair and asked "is it real"
very odd...
very odd...
Yesterday. I was in Central London and was on my way home. I was completely oblivious that there was an England match on at Wembley (my stop comes a few stations after it) and on the way home at around 3/4pm the tubes were packed full of England shirts. literally, every line which was heading northbound towards Wembley Park station or near that station was full of red and white tshirts full of people chanting, swearing and the carriages just stank of sweat and alcohol!
In the end i got fed up so I took a fast train, which skipped past Wembley (as well as my station), and then took a bus home. The extra 30 mins of the journey was so worth it though - I was able to sit down in the carriage and actually hear myself think!
In the end i got fed up so I took a fast train, which skipped past Wembley (as well as my station), and then took a bus home. The extra 30 mins of the journey was so worth it though - I was able to sit down in the carriage and actually hear myself think!
Last year. It was stationary for about 90 minutes because of some signalling problems ahead of it. Which is bad. But it was summer, and the air conditioning was broken on this completely overcrowded train. I had no drinks at all (though they did start giving away free tiny bottles of water) and was sitting on this train with everyone else sweating like hell for nearly 3 hours.
Frannnnn
after my first gig at 15, we were going into the tube station and there was a bad smell. and of course, as the breeze got stronger as we got nearer to the platform the smell got worse.
a tramp had crapped himself on the platform.
a tramp had crapped himself on the platform.
Oh god! One stands out for me! - I was on the way from Sixth-form to my boyfriends by train and at the shop I had decided to get some hula-hoops as I was starving. Anyway I happily sat down on the train, began to eat my hula-hoops and I casually looked down on the floor and there were huge thick toe nail clippings everywhere!! I scrunched up my hula-hoops and haven't touched any since. ERrr it was horrible!
A Second one.. Me and my boyfriend were on holiday in Portsmouth and we were getting the bus to brighton.. anyway we were happily sitting on the bus when this tramp sticks his hand out for us to shake. My boyfriend declines and so did I..so this tramp stuck his finger up at us and got his camera out (why is it tramps can afford things like this when their homeless??) and started to try and take pictures of me!! I was so scared! My boyfriend kept trying to hide me and in the end we moved. It was horrible!
Oh god I think of so many more! I get the bus to Sixth-form and it's always full of smelly men and women who clearly do not own a shower in their house.
A Second one.. Me and my boyfriend were on holiday in Portsmouth and we were getting the bus to brighton.. anyway we were happily sitting on the bus when this tramp sticks his hand out for us to shake. My boyfriend declines and so did I..so this tramp stuck his finger up at us and got his camera out (why is it tramps can afford things like this when their homeless??) and started to try and take pictures of me!! I was so scared! My boyfriend kept trying to hide me and in the end we moved. It was horrible!
Oh god I think of so many more! I get the bus to Sixth-form and it's always full of smelly men and women who clearly do not own a shower in their house.
My old school journey route, it was the 'school bus' version of the normal bus it had all the 'rudey' kids on it (who went to a different school than me) and then one day the people from my first secondary school had a fight with someone on the bus and threatened to stab everyone or something stupid like this, anyway the whole of my first secondary school chased the bus and tried to get it to stop.
I'd sensed the fear already and so got off the bus two stops early and walked instead, good move considering it was too dangerous for the bus to stop at my stop so I wouldn't have got home :/
Oh and the 5 hour coach journey with some 'rudey' young parents and their baby, it was GREAT when they decided to change it, oo the smell :/
I'd sensed the fear already and so got off the bus two stops early and walked instead, good move considering it was too dangerous for the bus to stop at my stop so I wouldn't have got home :/
Oh and the 5 hour coach journey with some 'rudey' young parents and their baby, it was GREAT when they decided to change it, oo the smell :/
I went for my interview at Cambridge alone, from Sunderland. Had a horrendously bad interview, knew for a fact I hadn't gotten in, and then headed for the train station.
Got to my platform early and waited for them to announce my train. One train moved off from the platform, and I was thinking 'oh, mine must be coming in now then', and when it didn't happen, I asked someone and they were like 'oh yeah, it went ten minutes ago'. 'Can I catch the next one with this ticket?' 'No.'
It gets better. Went to the desk to buy a ticket, and they didn't take my electron, which I had in hand. So I went to the cash machine to get the £75 for the new ticket, and then realised I'd lost my electron. Where? I'll never know. I went to phone my dad, distraught, and my battery was dead. So they had to call him from the booking office and he had to pay the money over the phone.
Still worse. My train is delayed because someone had thrown themselves on the line, so I might miss my 2 connecting trains. Get to the first one with about 10 seconds to spare, and then that's running late, so I might miss the next one.
The only nice thing about the journey was that a family on the train from Ely saw I was upset and when I told them what happened said I could come and stay with them for the night- don't things like that restore your faith in humanity?
Got home in the end, and collapsed in tears when I saw my dad. one of the worst days of my life!
Got to my platform early and waited for them to announce my train. One train moved off from the platform, and I was thinking 'oh, mine must be coming in now then', and when it didn't happen, I asked someone and they were like 'oh yeah, it went ten minutes ago'. 'Can I catch the next one with this ticket?' 'No.'
It gets better. Went to the desk to buy a ticket, and they didn't take my electron, which I had in hand. So I went to the cash machine to get the £75 for the new ticket, and then realised I'd lost my electron. Where? I'll never know. I went to phone my dad, distraught, and my battery was dead. So they had to call him from the booking office and he had to pay the money over the phone.
Still worse. My train is delayed because someone had thrown themselves on the line, so I might miss my 2 connecting trains. Get to the first one with about 10 seconds to spare, and then that's running late, so I might miss the next one.
The only nice thing about the journey was that a family on the train from Ely saw I was upset and when I told them what happened said I could come and stay with them for the night- don't things like that restore your faith in humanity?
Got home in the end, and collapsed in tears when I saw my dad. one of the worst days of my life!
Probably the time I tried to get from Leamington to Bury St Edmunds in the height of summer two years ago. I got the train to Birmingham new street only to find that that my next train was cancelled, and the choice was to go through London or go back to Coventry and get a coach. Ended up getting on a train up to Derby, and back down to Leicester where I waited a couple of hours on a boiling hot train with a blinding headache. Eventually got there 10 hours after I'd set out.
My worst was when I was on a french exchange. We were on the train coming back from Paris and were super tired because we'd got up at 4 that morning to get there. Anyway, this old man came and sat next to us and started listening to his mp3 which was fine except he was listening to that circus theme tune really loudly and singing along to it...for 3 hours 
he also got off at every stop for a cigar and came back stinking and was staring at me and my exchange and muttering things I couldn't understand. I was not impressed lol.
he also got off at every stop for a cigar and came back stinking and was staring at me and my exchange and muttering things I couldn't understand. I was not impressed lol.
I hate being on the Tube in a half-full carriage, yet some stupid idiot gets on and sits right next to me! OMG, surely everyone knows that basic public transport etiquette (especially on trains) is to stand up unless there is a complete block of seats of available; never sit opposite someone or next to someone.
OMG, surely everyone knows that basic public transport etiquette (especially on trains) is to stand up unless there is a complete block of seats of available; never sit opposite someone or next to someone.
[1] Sitting on my school bus, I was on top deck next to a window. Chav scum on the street thought it would be funny to throw rocks at the bus as it went past. One rock landed square on the window that I was sitting next to, puncturing a hole straight through the glass and sprinkling little bits of glass everywhere.
Since I was sitting right next to the window, my head was about 2 inches away from the hole.
Everyone started screaming and asking if I was OK. I was fine, a little shocked, so I just shrugged and said "Yeah, I'm OK" and moved to another seat.
The chav who did it looked about 12 (I was actually looking out the window and saw him standing there a few seconds prior to the smash).
[2] School bus again: some chav scum had an air rifle, and shot our bus. It completely smashed the big window on the row in front of me; the glass went all over the floor and the pellet was also seen on the floor. This happened at the bus stop I get off at, so when the bus stopped, I just sighed and walked off the bus LOL.
Since I was sitting right next to the window, my head was about 2 inches away from the hole.
Everyone started screaming and asking if I was OK. I was fine, a little shocked, so I just shrugged and said "Yeah, I'm OK" and moved to another seat.
The chav who did it looked about 12 (I was actually looking out the window and saw him standing there a few seconds prior to the smash).
[2] School bus again: some chav scum had an air rifle, and shot our bus. It completely smashed the big window on the row in front of me; the glass went all over the floor and the pellet was also seen on the floor. This happened at the bus stop I get off at, so when the bus stopped, I just sighed and walked off the bus LOL.
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I went for my interview at Cambridge alone, from Sunderland. Had a horrendously bad interview, knew for a fact I hadn't gotten in, and then headed for the train station.
Got to my platform early and waited for them to announce my train. One train moved off from the platform, and I was thinking 'oh, mine must be coming in now then', and when it didn't happen, I asked someone and they were like 'oh yeah, it went ten minutes ago'. 'Can I catch the next one with this ticket?' 'No.'
It gets better. Went to the desk to buy a ticket, and they didn't take my electron, which I had in hand. So I went to the cash machine to get the £75 for the new ticket, and then realised I'd lost my electron. Where? I'll never know. I went to phone my dad, distraught, and my battery was dead. So they had to call him from the booking office and he had to pay the money over the phone.
Still worse. My train is delayed because someone had thrown themselves on the line, so I might miss my 2 connecting trains. Get to the first one with about 10 seconds to spare, and then that's running late, so I might miss the next one.
The only nice thing about the journey was that a family on the train from Ely saw I was upset and when I told them what happened said I could come and stay with them for the night- don't things like that restore your faith in humanity?
Got home in the end, and collapsed in tears when I saw my dad. one of the worst days of my life!
Got to my platform early and waited for them to announce my train. One train moved off from the platform, and I was thinking 'oh, mine must be coming in now then', and when it didn't happen, I asked someone and they were like 'oh yeah, it went ten minutes ago'. 'Can I catch the next one with this ticket?' 'No.'
It gets better. Went to the desk to buy a ticket, and they didn't take my electron, which I had in hand. So I went to the cash machine to get the £75 for the new ticket, and then realised I'd lost my electron. Where? I'll never know. I went to phone my dad, distraught, and my battery was dead. So they had to call him from the booking office and he had to pay the money over the phone.
Still worse. My train is delayed because someone had thrown themselves on the line, so I might miss my 2 connecting trains. Get to the first one with about 10 seconds to spare, and then that's running late, so I might miss the next one.
The only nice thing about the journey was that a family on the train from Ely saw I was upset and when I told them what happened said I could come and stay with them for the night- don't things like that restore your faith in humanity?
Got home in the end, and collapsed in tears when I saw my dad. one of the worst days of my life!
That must have been a horrible experience!
That family was really nice to help you like that. Thankfully there are still people like that in the world!
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