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Fig · August 2nd 10, 06:17 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:14:42 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, d wrote:

I had to use the tube today and had the pleasure of some eejit wearing
a rucksack in front of me constantly swivelling it about and bumping
me. Happily I managed to get my own back when I got off the train by
just shoving past their rucksack and almost knocking them over but
shouldn't there be some sort of bylaw for not wearing huge rucksacks to
deal with these sorts of idiots who seem to think they're still
trecking in nepal even when squashed on the victoria line?

Yes, there should. Also people who roll their little rolly cases in the
tube passageways, and people who think that just having stepped off a
train is the right time to put their bag down and fiddle with it.

And also people who only start retrieving their ticket when they get to
a gate.

And people who think right in front of an entrance or the foot of an
escalator is the right place to stand in groups of a dozen and discuss
where to go.

And people who walk down the middle of a passageway, occupying the whole
thing, at a speed slower than intended by anyone else. Admittedly this
only applies to wide people and narrow passages, but this is London, and
that is a frequent combination.

Do we in fact need a taxonomy of intolerable underground behaviour?

People who walk the wrong way down the one-way passages of deep level
stations, and look offended when they barge into me simply because I hold
my line.

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Fig