Posted by: simbsi | March 27, 2007

A million reasons why I hate the London Underground

There are plenty of reasons why I hate travelling on the London Underground.

  •  The Northern Line has to be the worst train service on the underground.
  • The announcements on the  Northern Line tend to be a bit too loud. Infact it seems like the train driver wants to pierce our eardrums with all that noise.
  • The fact that I always have to change my train at Kennington coz the train terminates there most of the time.
  • People who don’t give up their seats to the elderly or pregnant women.
  • People who beg on the underground  by going around carriage to carriage.  I have noticed this woman who comes around nearly every day with her baby to beg for money. Now if it were a one off it would be fine but then I see her like practically every day. I am sure she spends most of her day underground soliciting funds.
  • I can’t stand weird people who stare at me while travelling. It tends to get a bit annoying. I had to face three people yesterday who kept staring at me yesterday.It did not comfort me one bit because they looked like major creeps.
  • A notable mention to people with obssessive compulsive disorders who tend to get a bit annoying after some time. I would like to point out that guy who kept slapping his hand and then rolling his eyes around and staring at everyone every 2 mins. Then there was this guy who kept biting his fingernails and digging for gold and trying to achieve every goal in the “a million ways to irritate people on the underground” book. To top it all the old foggie sitting on my left kept licking his lips. The worst bit was that I could hear him through all that loud music i was listening to. At least it was better than that guy who kept tapping his feet while listening to music.

Hmm so that’s a few reasons why I hate travelling on the London Underground.


Responses

  1. Hi!
    If I may I would like to add a few things to your comment.
    What I hate in the London Underground, is the poor service delivered on a daily basis. Signal failure, faulty trains, trains ahead of us and all those crapy excuses.
    I hate the fact that some of the staffs are not able to speak clearly and properly English (I’m French by the way) and when they do both, they are not even friendly. There are a massive lack of skills regarding the communication to us. Sometimes we are treated as a bunch of poultries or even Jews during WW2 but never as a paying customer. It is regrettable when it’s the most expensive in the world. The organisation is appalling; the customer information is about the same level.
    And to finish I hate all those commuters who never say anything, because they give LU all the reasons to keep on providing with the worst public transport service in the world.
    Take care guys and mind the gap.

  2. thanks for mentioning the bits i forgot to write about. :) the LU sux.


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