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It's already scientifically proven that December Makes Pubs Rubbish but it seems to have the opposite effect on public transport. Seats on my train are gettin easier and easier to come by.

yeah i wasn't sure how she'd react really. was it on ilx that someone witnessed a young guy give up his seat to a woman in her late thirties, who retorted "I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I AM IN MY SEXUAL PRIME, FUCKBAG!" at him.

Did I reply "I know, I'm standing up because I want to have sex with you"?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I have found bus lanes have sped up some of my bus journeys considerably

― Fred (hb262), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

You'd have to be nearly dead to get my Subway seat, because Glasgow's toy trains have roofs too low for normal-height people to stand up under.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

This is true. Not to mention the Argyle Street and Glasgow Central subway stations, with their attractive brash yellow design and smell of misplaced micturition which as far as I can tell are unchanged from 1978.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Argyle Street and Glasgow Central subway stations? Have you gone off your rocker, M?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I think he means the low-level always-flooded smells-bad line.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeh, people treat each other like pigs on the trains.

For the most part, I agree, but I got a very timid, brely-audible "bless-you" from a stranger on the subway the other day. After I sneezed, I mean. Never happened before.

As I say... ;-)

― wogan lenin (doglatin), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, I missed out the always-flooded part.

Then the enigmatic rumble under Bridgeton, then the dramatic emergence into the picturesque daylight of Dalmarnock!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

At least it's cool down there (or, if you prefer, dank). I've fainted twice on the London Underground and once on the Paris Metro and nobody has every helped me out. I had my knee stroked by a weird lady on the Paris Metro and somebody (I couldn't see who) felt me up once too, but at least that's never happened in London. Oh, I got felt up on a bus in Rome too, but I wasn't commuting then, I was touristing.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

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