Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Public transport courtesy cards

You know how it is – you're on any form of public transport and someone, somewhere, on your train or bus, is annoying you by – say – blocking the doors, eating smelly food, speaking or listening to music too loudly, not moving along the aisle, tapping on their phone, spreading their legs out too wide on a seat or having their bag on an unoccupied seat.

Of course, being British, we've learnt to ignore such annoyances; though we may want to scream at them, civilised society suggests otherwise. Even asking someone to turn their music down would at best disturb the otherwise silence of the carriage and result in possible embarrassment; at worst it could (it actually has!) result in a stabbing.

The solution is these passive-aggressive cards – simply print and cut them out, then surreptitiously hand one out to the offending passenger as you're leaving the carriage, then leg it down the platform.

3 comments :

Caspar said...

Brilliant idea! The passengers who get me are the sniffers. Sniff sniff snurk… It's disgusting and it proper does my head in. Of course, they're not aware of what they're doing and the effect it has - especially when they're listening to their shit music on headphones and are completely oblivious to what's going on around them. So I'd suggest an addition to your range of passive/aggressive novelties aimed at this particularly irritating sub-species of lout.

Barnaby said...

Thanks Caspar. I bet the sniff/cough combo really gets your goat. I realise probably no annoying person knows they're annoying – hence the gentle hint of a friendly card. I'm gathering quite a list together – I may actually print them properly.

Caspar said...

Do that! Flog them on Ebay or Etsy. They could catch on!

Oh, the old sniff/cough combo, ah yes. And territorially assertive throat-clearing…