Train Ettiquette

Posted by: LT17

22nd Feb 2011 12:10pm

I commute to and from work every day on the train. It's only a 25 minute journey when it stops at all stations, so it's quick and should be a painless exercise.

However, I'm wondering if anyone else is frustrated with the following types of behaviours on the train, or whether it is just understood and unnoticed, that these simple gestures of kindness no longer exist

- People pushing in front of you to be first on the train, just as the train arrives, when you have been waiting patiently at that spot for some time
- Men sitting next to you with their legs spread far apart, so they take up half of your seat.
- High School students who pay a portion fare and still sit down
- People talking loudly on their mobiles
- People who have sat the entire trip, not waiting until those who have stood the entire trip get off the train.

Am I the only one?

CindyMay

17th Jul 2014 05:47pm

I know exactly how you feel, as I used to experience the very same issues. I'm retired now so don't have to put up with it anymore. I once was carrying two large brown paper bags full of food which were leaking out the bottom and had high heels on, yet no-one offered me a seat. By the time we got to Burwood Railway Station, I was the only one left standing who had got on the train in the City, Someone who was sitting stood up to get off at Burwood, the seat was taken by male who got off the train the next station at Strathfield! I still didn't get the seat!

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