Pet Hates

Since I've started University again, I've sadly resorted to using the tube to get there again since it's quite far from my house. This has increased my propensity for grumpiness somewhat and increased my awareness of the sheer stupidity of certain members of the human race.

Although they number many, my new pet hate is people hanging on to the overhead rail in the tube when the train has stopped and is completely stationary. I must add that these are able bodied people who for one reason or another seem incapable of standing upright on a stationary carriage without holding onto something. These very same people seem to get on fine at street level without anything to hold onto, yet this fact escapes them upon entering a train. In this way, they manage to keep their elbows in the way of most people trying to make their way past, completely inconveniencing everybody.

The sheer idiocy of these people never ceases to amaze me. Why the hell are they still hanging on!?!? The train is at a complete standstill!! People bump into them and give them dirty looks that could tame a wild beast, but even that doesn't seem to get through to these people.

Today I decided to pipe up and confront one of these imbeciles. I did this by telling one of them on my way out that there wasn't any need to keep hanging on and blocking everyone's way out whilst the train was stationary, politely pointing out that there would appear to be no danger of them falling over. That was met with complete silence and a blank look bereft of any signs of a cognitive process taking place. Looking into that man's eyes was like staring into an empty abyss devoid of any intelligence (no offence meant towards abysses, which I actually quite like).

Rant over.