*shudders*

[deird_lj]

Sometimes using public tranport is just... unpleasant.


I was on the train today, doing inspections like a dutiful little public servant.

So...

1) I got on, just in time to see a woman throw up all over the floor of the train.

I was worried that maybe she was really sick, but, no, it was just that her lunch was badly cooked (or something) and so she had a slight case of food poisoning which necessitated vomiting everywhere.

...that business concluded, she shrugged, and got back to eating her lunch.

YES. THE SAME LUNCH THAT HAD MADE HER SICK.

And so she threw up again.

And then she started eating her lunch again. And I changed seats.



2) Three stops later, Vomiting Lady got off.

A stop after that, Drunk Guy got on.

Drunk Guy was rather upset by the copious amount of vomit decorating the train's floor. So he lit a cigarette.

Sorry... he lit several cigarettes.

He was frantically smoking three cigarettes at once, and waving them round over the vomit - while declaring, loudly, to everyone on the train, that he'd "fix the smell" of the vomit by covering it up with the smell of burning nicotine.




...sometimes I wish I could just drive everywhere.

Comments

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

Eh, public transport is by its nature teh suxxors.

That's why in America we like to use our cars...

From Laney

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Oh, and yuck to smelly cigarette drunk guy.

[owenthurman.livejournal.com]

Wow. Public transit around here is like a pleasant alternative to the awful traffic. Works great, usually even smells fine. I've certainly never had any trouble like that. Have you been riding the 1am train or something?

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

...oh, migod, that is so gross.

Ew.

Do they actually let you smoke on trains in Australia? Cause that's not allowed in America...at least where I live? I'm ignorant.

But yeah, sketchy things happen when I take the bus. Usually not as sketchy as that, though. O.O

[taiba.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Gross. I've never had anything like that, thankfully. the one drunk guy I encountered was so inebriated that he coudln't even get himself up off the seat, let alone talk or light a cigarette, so he wasn't a problem.

[immer-am-lesen.livejournal.com]

So if you, as an inspector, don't enforce the no-smoking-on-public transport laws, who does....?

They should carry sawdust etc in the driver's cabin to deal with such things, otherwise no-one cleans it up for far too long...

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

OH, just so gross. Man, I feel your pain.

[snowpuppies]

Yeesh.


Like, really.


*shudders*

*pets*

[klme.livejournal.com]

also, I really want to see your safety vest...