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Today was the conclusion of a big festival in one of the local towns, ending in a fireworks display over the river. Rather than fight with the often difficult parking in that town, hubby and I decided to catch the train instead.
What we didn't know was that the train was FREE for the event. Or maybe the weekend. I don't know. The point is that the train was FREE and this brought out hordes of suck.
The Loud
We were on a double-decker train, and underneath us was an extremely loud group banging on everything and chanting. They were pounding on the ceiling hard enough to rattle the chairs under us, too. Some of it was simple "USA! USA!", but at one point they were chanting "Ass-hole! Ass-hole!" for no discernable reason. We tried to get on a different car than them when we switched trains (changing service lines), only to have them stop RIGHT NEXT TO US on the new train and continue to be so loud that I couldn't hear myself ask them, shouting at the top of my voice, to go away. We moved instead.
We could actually identify them for the rest of the evening, they were that loud. We lost them when we got to the event, only to wind up near them again coming back to the train after. Thankfully there were so many of them that they had to wait for the second train back south, while hubby and I slipped onto the first train.
The Crude
I almost punched a guy from that group, actually. As we were switching trains, he was coming up the stairs as we were coming down...yelling at every girl he could see what he'd like to do them and what they should do to him. In extremely sweaty, explicit detail. My temper just flashed, and I caught my fist about an inch from his head. Thankfully neither he nor any of his friends noticed me, as I was above them, but it was another reason I wanted far, far away from them.
The Speshul
There was an overly-tanned girl with a (thankfully unlit) cigarette in her hand, talking to her friend, saying "Is this train non-smoking? I don't see a no smoking sign! Show me where there's a no smoking sign on this train!"
The Inappropriate
Hubby and I watched with great interest as a conductor, without laying a finger on a girl, seperated her and a companion from a group of friends and marched them an entire car length away by lecturing them loud enough for everyone to hear about how they were behaving like children and he couldn't believe people their age were acting like that. The boy was trying to apologize for her and cowering, whereas the girl was openly defiant and saying she hadn't done anything wrong...but backing down anyways because it was obvious she HAD and didn't want to get into real trouble (or worse, kicked off the train) over it. From what we could gather from the pair's stammering, the girl had either flashed someone or groped someone (or something similarly inappropriate she claimed was "just flirting") and the conductor had caught her. We were very impressed with how he handled it.
What we didn't know was that the train was FREE for the event. Or maybe the weekend. I don't know. The point is that the train was FREE and this brought out hordes of suck.
The Loud
We were on a double-decker train, and underneath us was an extremely loud group banging on everything and chanting. They were pounding on the ceiling hard enough to rattle the chairs under us, too. Some of it was simple "USA! USA!", but at one point they were chanting "Ass-hole! Ass-hole!" for no discernable reason. We tried to get on a different car than them when we switched trains (changing service lines), only to have them stop RIGHT NEXT TO US on the new train and continue to be so loud that I couldn't hear myself ask them, shouting at the top of my voice, to go away. We moved instead.
We could actually identify them for the rest of the evening, they were that loud. We lost them when we got to the event, only to wind up near them again coming back to the train after. Thankfully there were so many of them that they had to wait for the second train back south, while hubby and I slipped onto the first train.
The Crude
I almost punched a guy from that group, actually. As we were switching trains, he was coming up the stairs as we were coming down...yelling at every girl he could see what he'd like to do them and what they should do to him. In extremely sweaty, explicit detail. My temper just flashed, and I caught my fist about an inch from his head. Thankfully neither he nor any of his friends noticed me, as I was above them, but it was another reason I wanted far, far away from them.
The Speshul
There was an overly-tanned girl with a (thankfully unlit) cigarette in her hand, talking to her friend, saying "Is this train non-smoking? I don't see a no smoking sign! Show me where there's a no smoking sign on this train!"
The Inappropriate
Hubby and I watched with great interest as a conductor, without laying a finger on a girl, seperated her and a companion from a group of friends and marched them an entire car length away by lecturing them loud enough for everyone to hear about how they were behaving like children and he couldn't believe people their age were acting like that. The boy was trying to apologize for her and cowering, whereas the girl was openly defiant and saying she hadn't done anything wrong...but backing down anyways because it was obvious she HAD and didn't want to get into real trouble (or worse, kicked off the train) over it. From what we could gather from the pair's stammering, the girl had either flashed someone or groped someone (or something similarly inappropriate she claimed was "just flirting") and the conductor had caught her. We were very impressed with how he handled it.
This conductor rocks. May I borrow him next time I'm on the train to the local city, please? It can get pretty bad if I make the mistake of trying to get there/home at the same time a footie match is due to start/end.
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