People Who Annoy Me on the Tube (with audio) PDF Print E-mail
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People who annoy me on the tube are:

People who stare

People who swear

People who dodge their fare

People who have obviously soiled their underwear

People who MUST STAND THERE!

People with rucksacks

On their backs

People eating smelly snacks

Jumpers splattered on the tracks

People who delay trains by having heart attacks

 

People who are rude, crude or dressed semi-nude

People with bad attitude

People who insist on saying “London Underground” instead of “the tube”

People who don’t apologise for treading on your toe

People who walk along the platform – SLOW!

And those who suddenly stop

The never-there-when-you-need-‘em Transport Cops

People crunching bags of crisps

Terrorists

People into mugging and robbing

Couples (or more) into groping or snogging

Or even dogging

 

People who use chairs for their feet

People who take up more than one seat

People who look like serial rapers

People who won’t pass on free newspapers

People who have had too much to drink

People with a B.O. stink

People who look like the missing link

People who don’t think

To give up their place to a pregnant woman although she’s on the brink

People who carry all their belongings including the kitchen sink

 

People who don’t know their Hampstead from their Harlesden

People who board the Docklands Light Railway and say

“Where’s the driver then?”

People who think the Emirates Stadium stop is Arsenal

People whose forgotten shopping becomes a suspicious parcel

Children who nag, nag, nag

People smoking fags

People with `I Love NY’ hats, t-shirts and bags

People reading misogynistic lad mags

People who refuse to smile

People who should clearly be on trial

 

People farting

People who get their head stuck in closing doors before departing

People snoring and slobbering ‘cause they’re asleep

People laying in their own puke on the floor in a crumpled heap

People coughing, spluttering, wheezing and sneezing – but NOT in their hand

People who just have to stand

Even though there’s a free seat

People wearing open sandals with corns and calluses on their feet

People who sweat profusely in the heat

 

People who shove

Who fight

Who scream

Who kick

Who fuss

People who vow next time to walk or take the bus

People playing loud music on their headphones

Religious fundamentalists who won’t leave you alone

Sloanes!

People with ridiculous attention-seeking ring tones

People who cuss their mum

People sticking chewing gum

People who surreptitiously scratch their bum

People who hum and hum and hum and hum and hum

And bloody buskers who can’t even sing or strum

 

BUT

Do you know which people annoy me the most and are the least cool?

It’s the people who can’t tolerate anyone else on the tube

At all

 
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