Things I dislike about public transportation (regular, suspected, Pittsburgh, states)

[truthhurts]

This is a thread to voice your opinions on things you hate about public transportation. It could be planes, buses, trains, or taxis, but you have to keep it to things you hate about public transportation. I'll start.

I hate sitting next to crying babies on air planes.

I hate sitting in front of small children that kick the back of seats on air planes

I also hate sitting next to loud teeangers in any public transportation environment

I also hate when people talk really loud on their cell phones before a plane boards and then directly after it lands (its strikes me as a cry for attention)

I also hate and sorry if this offends anyone sitting next to people that are too large to ride air planes, that is the most annoying thing especially if you have to ride coach on an overseas flight.

I also hate people that sit on the inside seat of a plane, but constantly get up to use the bathroom. If you have a weak bladder buy an aisle seat!

Eh, i shouldn't say hate, but these are just a few things I strongly dislike..what are yours?

[Marodi]

Originally Posted by truthhurts

I also hate and sorry if this offends anyone sitting next to people that are too large to ride air planes, that is the most annoying thing especially if you have to ride coach on an overseas flight.

I had this on a Pittsburgh-Newark flight and thank god it was only an 2 hours (one hour sitting on runway due to newark delays from weather). 737 with a larger woman squeezing me into the window. She was super nice and we conversed a good portion of the time but was still physically awkward.

[ParkerP]

All the crazies want to talk to me. Crackheads, ex-cons, bums, militants, religious nuts, depressed folk, divorcees, etc all feel right at home with me. And they talk forever. Doesn't matter if I have on head phones, am reading a book, pretending to be sleep or look incredibly mean. It never fails. Here comes crazy! Thank God I have a car now.

[burnt]

What I dislike about public transportation: its relative scarcity in the United States.

[coffeehound]

used to ride the local city busses regularly. My list:

Sitting next to filthy drunks at 9 AM.

Sitting next to a filthy drunk at 9 AM soliciting me for a "lil 3-way" with his equally filthy and drunk "lady friend."

The overheated and poorly circulated air that only serves to enhance the filthy and drunken stench with which you are trapped for the next 45 minutes.

Meth-heads and psychos (is there a difference?) brawling with the driver over lack of adequate bus fare. It's not a haggler's market, people. Fare is 1.50. Not 1.15, not 97 cents, and certainly not 50 cents and a cigarette.

Elderly women who repeatedly, inexplicably, remove and lick their clip-on earrings while commenting to nobody in particular how "crazy" their adult offspring are.

Yes, and how could I forget the religious wackos? I loved the ones who didn't wear shoes and had signs proclaiming that the End Is Near. I laughed the first time I saw them. I stopped laughing after they mistook my amusement for spiritual hunger.

Now I am a selfish, heartless, carbon-emitting **** to the marvels of the automobile age.

Planes, OTOH, don't bother me. By comparison to the bus crowd, virtually everyone on an airplane is a genteel, well-heeled, scrupulously courteous member of the upper crust. The occasional crying baby or fat lady can't begin to compete.

[truthhurts]

Something else that totally grinds my gears on planes is people that are flatulent. This has to be the single most disgusting and rudest thing someone can ever do on a freaking plane! This has happend to me on two seperate occasions where teenagers and ederly people were heavily present on a plane. I honestly cannot remember a time i was more P.O.ed on a plane. There is no real ventilation whatsoever luckly the flight was only an hour and the suspected person or persons were sitting two seats up.

[yayoi]

I hate that if you miss a bus you have to wait 40 minutes for another one.

I hate the fact that it takes 2 hours to go across town on a bus when it takes 30 minutes in a car.

Accidently sitting in wet seats is no fun. You can switch seats but the damage has already been done. LOL!

I hate it when people eat smelly food and stink up the whole bus.

I really can't stand loud people in small spaces. If I can hear you through my headphones, you need to tone it down.

The drunks. I can't stand the drunks, especially when they are harrassing people. Then there's the smell. You can smell the alcohol permeating from them. It's absolutely nauseating.

I also hate it when people leave their trash on the bus. These are probably the same people who don't know how to utilize the trash cans at the bus stops. Lazy bastids!

Oh, and I just love it when the drivers decide to do a little shopping, then arrive 15 minutes late. There goes that connection bus I was supposed to catch. Thanks my friend.

[Eastern Roamer]

I hate finding out I'm in the wrong place, like "oh, my plane is now departing from where?" or "wait, where is this bus going?" or "nothing here looks familiar, I should have stayed awake."

[doc1]

After reading these responses I'll think I'll just stay cocooned in my gas hog.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by truthhurts

Something else that totally grinds my gears on planes is people that are flatulent. This has to be the single most disgusting and rudest thing someone can ever do on a freaking plane! This has happend to me on two seperate occasions where teenagers and ederly people were heavily present on a plane. I honestly cannot remember a time i was more P.O.ed on a plane. There is no real ventilation whatsoever luckly the flight was only an hour and the suspected person or persons were sitting two seats up.

This has happened to me before too, and I couldn't get the little air valve above the seat open fast enough. And I just love the look on everyones faces, "it wasn't me!". I always make sure I don't eat certain foods before a flight.