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Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> This isn't irrational rage but I'm going to put it

> here anyway rather than start another 'to the

> person who...' thread. Irrational upset perhaps.

>

> When I got to my station this morning there were

> problems with trains so I cycled to Denmark Hill

> to get the overground round to the City. It was

> standing room only as usual. At the next station

> loads more people got on and I was pushed quite

> hard and struggled to stay upright - I'm a bit

> unsteady at times as I have problems with tendons

> in one ankle that KCH hasn't been able to fix.

>

> As I tried to get myself stable the woman who had

> pushed me started making comments. I tried to

> brush them off but she got quite personal. I'm not

> going to repeat what she said but it hit a nerve

> and I ended up in tears, which I'm ashamed to say

> I'm still struggling to shake off completely. I

> could tell from her instant aggression and tone of

> voice that she was looking for someone to take

> her feelings out on, and in her anger perhaps she

> didn't realise how it might sound to the person on

> the receiving end.

>

> My point is, please think before you vent your bad

> feelings on a stranger who just happens to be in

> front of you.


Just another sign of a society that has lost sight of good manners, sorry to hear about your experience. Regrettably people take it out on each rather than the train service providers who charge some of the highest costs in Europe if not the world and provide possibly the poorest service.

Dopamine1979 Wrote:

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> That sounds very unpleasant RPC. Did she at least

> apologise?


No. No one showed they'd noticed either, though one kind woman later offered me a tissue as mine had clearly disintegrated.





You should have complained loudly about her bad behaviour and stressed your difficulty in standing, then told her not to ask for sympathy if and when she herself found it more difficult to stand. I find her kind of selfishness and rudeness absolutely appalling (gawd, I'm beginning to sound like Prince Charles, not exactly my favourite person!)


My grouse for today - the fat 20 something woman who crashed into me while staring at her bloody smartphone and then told me to look where I was going. Yes, that woman in Melbourne Grove at about 9am today, you know who you are.

Sue Wrote:

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> Levina Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Does anyone get seriously annoyed at the sound

> of

> > chewing, even if the person is chewing with

> their

> > mouth closed?

>

> xxxxxxxx

>

> Yes.

>

> Apples are the worst.


Bananas are the worst for me!!

Posters who can't even be bothered to read a thread properly but will still pipe up with a question answered in the first post in the thread. e.g 'I informed the police'.......a few posts later 'Did you report it to the police?'


And, comparing human stupidity to one animal or another. How do you know what it's like to be a sheep?

At an airport everyone crowding around the luggage carousel so that no one can get their luggage easily or see when if everyone just took one pace back it would be easy for everyone. What is irrational is quite how furious it makes me everytime, even though I know it will happen and doesnt really delay you much.

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