#20

Ditto but in my case regarding the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

#21

I’ve had this but on the bus where they say standing upstairs isn’t allowed.

#22

This reminded me of being told off over the tannoy at a petrol station for talking hands-free on my phone while trying to fill up my car with petrol. Couldn’t see what all the fuss was about tbh

#24

Ditto, but in my case regarding the taking of photographs of the newly-opened Canary Wharf station.

#25

2 x incidents to relate here

  1. tannoy at Sainsburys called for the owner of a green Ford Focus estate (i.e. me). Turned out a white van guy had smashed into my car in the carpark and driven off. 2x people had noted down the reg for me. I was very grateful, but never followed through as my car is already pretty dented up and worthless and it didn’t seem worth the bother. Regretted it later when the car failed it’s MOT due to cracked suspension or something around the area of the smash

  2. back in the early 90s (so pre mobile days) my mate and i were driving to attend the Reading festival. We were going to pick up another mate at Reading station, then head to the site. Not long after we set off the car windscreen shattered - so we headed back to my friends house to get it sorted. Knowing we would be hours late now, I managed to call Reading station and get them to tannoy my mate so I could get him to call us at my mate’s house and tell him what was going on. You just don’t need to do stuff like this anymore

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#26

Both good and relevant anecdotes. Thank you.

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#27

appaz its in case you drop your phone and it causes a spark to ignite the petrol and kill us all. I know.

#28

ooo yes

more for me

  • there was a tannoy reminding customers that bikes were not allowed on trains during rush hour.I was that bikewanker

  • been told out over petrol station tanoys a couple of times. Once for having my phone out (have they not seen mythbusters?), once for a bit of low level larking with one of my kids (seemed a bit over the top)

  • also would have been tanoyed loads of times when I actually worked in a supermarket

#29

this seems a bit of a shame doesnt it

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#30

That’s an urban myth though isn’t it?

#31

Got bollocked over a tannoy in a museum in Leeds for throwing a baby doll up in the air and catching it a few times.

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#32

i dunno it’s what the person in the petrol station told me

#33

I love that doll museum tbf

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#34

A cursory Googling reveals it was the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford ¯_(ツ)_/¯

#35

‘Could the wally that’s just boarded the train with a bike please exit immediately, thank you’

Me on the Piccadilly line, 2009

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#36

I would have got confused and kept saying “This is a st’eam announcement” and got in trouble with the man and my bowling days would have been through

#37

Had to wait 6 days for my bag when the airline lost it on the way to new Zealand last time, such a pain. And got hardly any compo as just borrow pals clothes mostly.

Re: Tannoy, pretty sure I have but can’t remember why.

#38

Let kids put diesel in the car, got told off.

Almost got tannoyed when I went to look at something in the next aisle in Asda and R went and reported himself lost to a worker …excellent parenting right there

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#39

Because phones are far more dangerous around thousands of litres of fuel than petrol vehicles are…

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#40

I have not