Re: Is it time for more rude LIRR stories?

Posted by Blu-ize

Posted by Otherme

Ok, i'll share my story from last night

i was on the 9:05 train home - I had a long day and was sitting in a 2 seater on the outside seat, reading my book.
The train was about 3/4 full, definitely empty seats around.

At Jamaica, a guy asks to sit next to me so i get up and let him in. Go back to reading my book..
after a minute he turns to me and says 'long day huh?' and i give him a polite nod and go back to reading. Then he says 'oh, you're reading a book, what are you reading?' i tell him its a book on the Vietnam War, then he says 'oh, i thought you might want to chat during our ride and i didn't want to be rude by not talking to you'
so i said - 'actually, i just want to read my book'
he says - 'oh, yeah don't you hate it when someone comes along and talks to you and you can't read'?
me - YES!
him - oh ok, i guess you don't want to talk to me so i'll be rude and listen to my ipod

W. T. F. ??

No way!!! He was a lonely man!

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I don't miss my commute from Ronk to Penn at all.

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Posted by BriBri2u

I agree there are some numbers on the express bus. I take the bus in from Queens & I have had to change my bus because of some of them.

There is this trio of woman - a mother, her daughter & friend who gets on after them. They talk THE ENTIRE way in - LOUDLY about anything & everything.

The mother has this obnoxious laugh that makes you want to bang your head against the window several times. The daughter is prissy girl who loves to talk above the other two & their friend is just an annoying with her own habits.

The best part is - they are friendly with the bus driver - who brings them each an espresso every morning. Ummm mister - they DON'T need it...it makes them talk more.

Other passengers have moved their seats to the back because they are THAT annoying. The best is when they notice it and start making comments like "whatever, its not their bus if I want to talk I'm going to talk"

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I have a story like that too!!! A little old lady sat next to me one day and started off asking if this was the train going to cold springs, i said yes, she had the right train, that somehow gave her the opening to spend the next 50min telling me her whole life story. I coudln't be rude, and walk away ! It was actually cute how she braged about her grandkids But still train time is my sleep time!!!! Now i run in, get a seat and shut my eyes!

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I'm thankful to be in a country where it is, for the most part, quiet on the trains. However, people can be rude at times in other ways- lack of personal space, knocking into you without saying excuse me, etc. This happens about 90% of the time. You can't win!

Message edited 7/1/2010 5:05:38 PM.

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one of the things that gets me is that when this chick asked me to let her in the middle seat, she wouldn't let me sit back down. She wouldn't move over. So I was standing. She motions for her friend to come over and as her friend gets up from her middle seat a few rows away and comes to where we are, she asks me if I was sitting there. I said yes, and she asked me to switch with her. I flatly said not thanks to the middle seat. The woman went back to her seat in the middle. Then she asks the other guy on the window. What the heck could be so freakin important that two adults would have to sit with each other and leave their 10 year old child with downs by himself in another part of the car. They went on jabbering forever and I had to shush them.

As soon as I got up they motioned to the kid that he should sit in my seat. Mybutt wasn't even out of the seat when this kid threw himself in it.

PEOPLE!!!

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Posted by SusiBee

Posted by BriBri2u

I agree there are some numbers on the express bus. I take the bus in from Queens & I have had to change my bus because of some of them.

There is this trio of woman - a mother, her daughter & friend who gets on after them. They talk THE ENTIRE way in - LOUDLY about anything & everything.

The mother has this obnoxious laugh that makes you want to bang your head against the window several times. The daughter is prissy girl who loves to talk above the other two & their friend is just an annoying with her own habits.

The best part is - they are friendly with the bus driver - who brings them each an espresso every morning. Ummm mister - they DON'T need it...it makes them talk more.

Other passengers have moved their seats to the back because they are THAT annoying. The best is when they notice it and start making comments like "whatever, its not their bus if I want to talk I'm going to talk"

OMG I know who you are talking about and I KNOW THE DRIVER TOO !

He's out on sick leave, the daughter moved so she's not on the bus anymore, the mom is now on the earlier bus which I ride, and the friend is all over the place.

Re: Is it time for more rude LIRR stories?

Posted by BriBri2u

Posted by SusiBee

Posted by BriBri2u

I agree there are some numbers on the express bus. I take the bus in from Queens & I have had to change my bus because of some of them.

There is this trio of woman - a mother, her daughter & friend who gets on after them. They talk THE ENTIRE way in - LOUDLY about anything & everything.

The mother has this obnoxious laugh that makes you want to bang your head against the window several times. The daughter is prissy girl who loves to talk above the other two & their friend is just an annoying with her own habits.

The best part is - they are friendly with the bus driver - who brings them each an espresso every morning. Ummm mister - they DON'T need it...it makes them talk more.

Other passengers have moved their seats to the back because they are THAT annoying. The best is when they notice it and start making comments like "whatever, its not their bus if I want to talk I'm going to talk"

OMG I know who you are talking about and I KNOW THE DRIVER TOO !

He's out on sick leave, the daughter moved so she's not on the bus anymore, the mom is now on the earlier bus which I ride, and the friend is all over the place.

lolol NO way!!!

Hope you aren't friends with them

They are quite annoying though...esp that early in the am - the entire ride in. The best part is - they shut their traps once we get out of the tunnel...just when I get off...

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this thread just made me so thankful that i dont commute on the LIRR anymore!!! lol

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a few years back there was a lady loudly discussing with someone how she thought she had a miscarriage the night before. I mean FULL details and all...I will spare them for you here.

I was horrified for 45 minutes as I heard her go on and on. Then she started into all her pregnancy systems....

When I got up to get off and she was still yapping I looked at her dead on and said "I learned way too much about you today" and she started beeyotching to whoever she was on the phone with about how rude I was. The lady who had been next to her said, "Thank you, you are so right" as did a guy standing in the vestibule. It was crazy.

The kicker is that in my teeny tiny world the train chick didn't have a miscarriage, popped the kid out and he wound up in Bella's daycare and eventually IN her class...I had to look at her for like 4 and a half years. We dutifully pretended not to know each other previously....

That's why I always try to be on my best behavior on the train...you just never know!

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I think I experienced the one that takes the cake....

DH and I had dinner in the city Friday night after work. Figured the train home would be empty because of the holiday. It wasn't and by the time we got to the train we had to search for 2 seats together. We finally found them and sat behind a woman and her 1-1.5 year old.
Within second of sitting down it was obvious the child had a dirty diaper. Finally, as we're passing Rockville center (we left from Penn, and I employed several tactics along the way to mask the smell) I hear the mother say "let's change your stinky diaper." I start doing a little to myself
Instead of getting up and going into the bathroom at the other end of the car, she lays the child on the seat and unleashes the fury for the whole train car to smell. I had to do everything in my power not to vomit into my book. As if that wasn't enough, when she is finished changing the diaper she throws it on the floor!!!

Once the train made it's first stop DH searched for other empty seats and we moved. But I am sure when she got off, she did not take the stinky diaper with her.

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Posted by DrMeg

I think I experienced the one that takes the cake....

DH and I had dinner in the city Friday night after work. Figured the train home would be empty because of the holiday. It wasn't and by the time we got to the train we had to search for 2 seats together. We finally found them and sat behind a woman and her 1-1.5 year old.
Within second of sitting down it was obvious the child had a dirty diaper. Finally, as we're passing Rockville center (we left from Penn, and I employed several tactics along the way to mask the smell) I hear the mother say "let's change your stinky diaper." I start doing a little to myself
Instead of getting up and going into the bathroom at the other end of the car, she lays the child on the seat and unleashes the fury for the whole train car to smell. I had to do everything in my power not to vomit into my book. As if that wasn't enough, when she is finished changing the diaper she throws it on the floor!!!

Once the train made it's first stop DH searched for other empty seats and we moved. But I am sure when she got off, she did not take the stinky diaper with her.

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Posted by headoverheels

Posted by DrMeg

I think I experienced the one that takes the cake....

DH and I had dinner in the city Friday night after work. Figured the train home would be empty because of the holiday. It wasn't and by the time we got to the train we had to search for 2 seats together. We finally found them and sat behind a woman and her 1-1.5 year old.
Within second of sitting down it was obvious the child had a dirty diaper. Finally, as we're passing Rockville center (we left from Penn, and I employed several tactics along the way to mask the smell) I hear the mother say "let's change your stinky diaper." I start doing a little to myself
Instead of getting up and going into the bathroom at the other end of the car, she lays the child on the seat and unleashes the fury for the whole train car to smell. I had to do everything in my power not to vomit into my book. As if that wasn't enough, when she is finished changing the diaper she throws it on the floor!!!

Once the train made it's first stop DH searched for other empty seats and we moved. But I am sure when she got off, she did not take the stinky diaper with her.

If you have ever been in the bathroom of an LIRR train you'd understand why she didn't want to change her child in there But I would have wrapped that diaper up as quickly as possible and thrown it away in the bathroom of the car, not left it on the floor, that's horrible!

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OMG, that is one of the best. Can I use it for when I eventually write my LIRR stories book?

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After reading this I DO NOT miss my train ride from KP to Penn . . .at all! Although sometimes I miss napping in the morning and reading on the way home!

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Before I got married, the girls and I would go into the city every once in awhile to some bar then rush to get the "drunk train"... the last train of the night on the Babylon line I think it was at like 2:20am or something. It was always packed with drunk people, mostly 18 yr olds. Anyway, this one night we were on it and just tired and ready to go home. We were stuck on a car with a bunch of snobby rich kids and all the girls were plastered and kept trying to talk over each other, sounded like valley girls, kept running up and down the car, the guys were throwing stuff at each other. It was a nightmare, I couldn't wait until we got home, BUT the train got stuck between Baldwin and Rockville Center for over and hour... so we were stuck on this car with these jerks for a 2 hour train ride.