Tube Survival Tactics

[Jog On]

Let one go.

other than that you just have to get used to it and be pretty mercenary about it...

After a while you adapt to it - headphones in make a bee-line for your space and defend your territory!! mad

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

14 years of hr long tube journeys in and out for me,

1. Take no sh*t if people get in your way trip them up or shoulder barge.
2. Don't be affraid of a bit of confrontation add spice to the journey.
2. Don't give up your seat for women unless really fit, but oldies you must let sit down.
3. Don't sit next to or near dodgy looking people with rucksacks.
4. Read the Sun I find Page 3 helps.
5. Learn to zone out.

[FatLazyContractor]

14 years of hr long tube journeys in and out for me,

1. Take no sh*t if people get in your way trip them up or shoulder barge.
2. Don't be affraid of a bit of confrontation add spice to the journey.
2. Don't give up your seat for women unless really fit, but oldies you must let sit down.
3. Don't sit next to or near dodgy looking people with rucksacks.
4. Read the Sun I find Page 3 helps.
5. Learn to zone out.

Sounds like a true Londoner. No wonder, you lot are treated like scabs up North.

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

Sounds like a true Londoner. No wonder, you lot are treated like scabs up North.

I'm actually a Northerner born and bread your muppet, will move back up one day and buy a street up !

[FatLazyContractor]

I'm actually a Northerner born and bread, just in London to work.

That's a disgrace then lad!

[FatLazyContractor]

I'm actually a Northerner born and bread your muppet, will move back up one day and buy a street up !

[Elliegirl]

[QUOTE=Goatfell;2012785]Taxi - non-stop monologue from driver on football/politics/celebrity gossip


You should meet the taxi drivers in Leeds. I did a stint there recently and had to go out and buy some trainers and a rucksack to carry my bits and bobs because they just wouldn't shut up. I couldn't cope with the heavy political discussions at 7.30 am. And I tried not replying or being monosyllabic. They'd blather on until they got a reaction. It was horrible.

[NickFitz]

You should meet the taxi drivers in Leeds. I did a stint there recently and had to go out and buy some trainers and a rucksack to carry my bits and bobs because they just wouldn't shut up. I couldn't cope with the heavy political discussions at 7.30 am. And I tried not replying or being monosyllabic. They'd blather on until they got a reaction. It was horrible.

I'm not sure that's just a Leeds thing. The other year I was in Cambridge when my car fell ill, and I had to get cabs from the hotel to ClientCo for a couple of days until I bought an additional one while the poorly one was being taken home. I was relieved on the final cab-morning when he spent the entire journey telling me about every single person he'd ever taken from that hotel to ThenClientCo, which turned out to be a lot. At least it wasn't sport/politics/casual racism

[FatLazyContractor]

You should meet the taxi drivers in Leeds. I did a stint there recently and had to go out and buy some trainers and a rucksack to carry my bits and bobs because they just wouldn't shut up. I couldn't cope with the heavy political discussions at 7.30 am. And I tried not replying or being monosyllabic. They'd blather on until they got a reaction. It was horrible.

Unless you went out to buy stuff at a 24 hour-open ASDA / Tesco ...

[darmstadt]

So, who was this then: