This being more of a generalised post about the shitcocks lovely people who use the Underground everyday. The people who seem to be in their own little world of acceptability who think that they are the sole being on the planet and that they could do no harm… those are the people who I choose to write about now.

So yes, the tubes all went to hell this morning (a tad worse than usual, with a fire causing the closure of the Paddington Underground entrances for the District & Circle and Bakerloo lines). Which means that the only Underground station running of out Paddington would be the Hammersmith and City line, which it appears the world is trying to get onto at the same time. Due to this massive number of people coming and going there were extreme numbers of people moving off and onto the platform. So the Underground staff decided to give priority to people trying to get off the platform, which is usually a sensible idea, since otherwise its just going to end up with someone under a train. But due to the slowness of these people who appear to be oblivious that there’s about 200 people waiting to get down onto the train that’s waiting, by the time they were off the platform, the next incoming tube had arrived. So just as we were about to move down, we would get stopped and have to wait again. Repeat this for roughly 30minutes and you have some pissed off Londoners trying to get to work. But as if the annoyance of waiting for 30minutes wasn’t enough, people were pushing their way up the queues to also get down onto the Hammersmith line, queue shouting and screaming here for at least 5minutes. Luckily at this point the TLU staff had realised that the crowd was getting.. unamused to say the least, and stopped people getting off the incoming train until we had a chance to actually get out of Paddington.

Also following onto the list of annoying people, are the people who have backpacks (ok, I have one too but…) decide that when at rush hour on the Tube, they should keep their bag on their back and take up double the space! Rather than taking it off and putting it between their feet. It seems people have forgotten that bags can in fact go on the ground and the floor!

And finally, there’s the people who try to get on the trains before letting other people off, however this one is easily combated with a “oh I am sorry did I stomp on your foot” or “I am sorry, did I just fall off the train elbowing you in the chest.. I am SO sorry”.

The Underground is fun