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?

Freedomy

6th Oct 2014 04:02pm

I just read your Train etiquette and I am so with you about poor manners. Who cares what the person up in the next carriage is having for dinner, or what he or she did the night before. I don't care for a strangers life and I also wonder if they speak louder because they want people to know their business, or is it because it is a mobile phone and it is subconsciously a reason to talk louder. But this manners stems into customer service as well.

I find nothing more annoying than you are about to purchase an item that requires a cashier and they start talking to the cashier next to them. Or do something and not acknowledge you.

Next issue people in the streets using their mobiles whilst walking. They have know idea who is in front of them and they expect you to go around them.

So I keep going, manners are like a thing of the past in every aspect of the word. Every where I look I hear rude, see rude and feel rude thrust upon myself and the community at large. The me, me, me attitude is well and truly gone to far.

I know I strayed off your train etiquette, but I felt behaviour all round is not just singled out to the trains.

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