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How to spot ****s on the underground....
I have total sympathy for you. If its getting a real pain for you, when you
get to the tube station you are departing from, ask the Station Assistant if they can radio through for a member of staff to meet you at your destination. I doubt it would be a problem. Always gives me great satisfaction taking the visually impaired to the platform and getting them on their train. Do other customers vacate a seat for them, of course not. Then I just ask the fit healthy person desperately attempting to avoid eye contact if they could give up 'the' (not their) seat. That reminds me of the story a blind person told me about....He was walking down the platform when a guy trips over his white stick and then goes ballistic threatening to sue him for tripping him! it takes all sorts :-))) Steve "Laura-Ann" wrote in message news:I0akc.769$7S2.280@newsfe1-win... "PhilD" wrote in message om... Niklas Karlsson wrote in message ... Indeed. Another thing most people get right is letting people off the train before trying to get on. Most of those who don't get this right (seems to be more common on NR than on the Underground) seem to be teenagers, and some even have the gall to be offended when I insist on getting off first. Niklas From my experience, when they get older (I won't say "grow up") they all go and live in Maidenhead! I never understand why, particularly if it's a crowded train, anyone even thinks there's room to get on until others have got off. It was much easier fo me a couple of years ago: it is hard for anyone to get on whilst a pushchair is coming off. PhilD -- Just chipping in...this is one of the things that annoys me most. I have to trek around, at the moment with a knee brace. I did it for the first time in London yesterday. Now, it was very much on show because I was wearing a skirt. Everytime I went to get off a train, it was exceptionally difficult to bend my knee, and I ended up jumping, or hopping down. People were tutting, and pushing me back into the train. Is it so difficult to wait a few seconds while someone gets off? And, even before the doors have opened, they are crowding around it waiting to get on, not leaving any space for those who wish to get off. Many times yesterday I shoved myself through groups of people waiting at the doors, and got "you piece of scum" looks. And for the first time yesterday, I actually swore at people who couldn't be patient. It's difficult enough for me at the moment to get on trains, I don't need it made more difficult to get off. Now, the idiots who ignore the "Keep Left" signs in tunnels and on stairs...that's another story. Laura-Ann ----------------- |
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