Tips for Making a Train Commute Better

I get the train into london everyday, in 3 years i've probably got a seat 10 times.

Its always packed. I just download a series on my phone and watch an episode on the way there and the way back.

If not, listen to a podcast or some music. TV usually keeps me entertained more and passes the time quicker.
 
I take a nice slow walk to my train as all around me people run, red faced, angry, pushy and desperate to ensure they get a seat. They get more angry (certainly at Euston) when they realise that their rush is fruitless as the 'name not down not coming in' brigade do a ticket check, usually resulting in 10% of them turning around because this train is not for 'them'. They flap, they shout, they push and I simply chill, hand my ticket over, get onto my lovely uncrowded coach, recline my seat, connect to the wifi and await the nice man from Manchester, Liverpool or Birmingham coming around to serve me food and drink until my hearts content, with a smile. I look at the flustered sorts running like mad to get one of the ever diminishing seats down 'the other end' content in my warm, spacious first class carriage....


.....until you realise that train ***** and crips lickers frequent all carriages, at all times of the day, at which point on go the noise cancelling headphones, up comes the laptop screen and off goes my brain. Public transport, never perfect. In another place I have a thread called train *****, it is MANY pages long and littered with stories of world class mongism on trains. I might write a book about it :D
 
While I do love reading, on a train is too distracting for me (noise, people, movement) - audio-books are perfectly suited as you can just look out the window blankly & listen.
 
Given that my commute is early enough in the morning that there was ~3 people on the entire tram this morning (including the driver) and 4 passengers in carriage on my train I don't really need to doing anything special to get a seat.
 
Freefaller said:
I generally either people watch or read a book. I don't find it that painful as a result.
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being sat behind an old obese Chinese lady as she very loudly and graphically described her sex life with her partner on her phone made me always take headphone slol
 
I listen to music. I end up getting off central line early so that I can get a seat on the overland train instead of trying to squeeze on later on. I have heard of people catch a train a stop backwards before, so that they get a seat.
 
tom_e said:
Get a personal vehicle, it's the only way to improve public transport by removing the public part.
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I resent that, as I won't ever be able to drive due to poor eyesight at birth. Not everyone gets that choice in life.

markweatherill said:
Loudest portable speaker you can find, obnoxious hip-hop, and have a big gangster taking care of business phone call over the top of it. After a few stops you are likely to have the carriage to yo bad self. If not, your fellow passengers are all yo bitches.
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Yeah it's either:

1. Yo blud. Dig yo choons bro.
2. Choonage disturbin' me innards so reduce yo max innit.

:p
 
Housey said:
I have a thread called train *****, it is MANY pages long and littered with stories of world class mongism on trains. I might write a book about it :D
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You mean like the Bill Hicks conspiracy guy (it was the CIA wot dun it), or the lovely, polite, discrete woman about 3 rows back who by the time you've spent 15 minutes on the train with her know that she's got a fungal infection, she suspects her friend is cheating on her firends BF with another guy, and that she can't talk because her phone is running low on charge/credit (at which point I think half the carriage issued a sigh of relief/thanks to the gods, whilst the other half were disappointed they weren't going to get more from the 9:15 to Clapham soap).
 
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