#76

I used to get the same bus as Lindsey Hilsum (to the same place)

#77

Who’s got time to listen to old people’s stories while cycling to work. The man shouldn’t be let out of the care home on his own.

#78

Reminds me of a bloke on the street market who has a cheese stall. He has a sign saying, “No photographs. Just buy the cheese.”

A mate took a photograph. He was standing on the public highway so perfectly legal for him to do so.

The stallholder shouted: “Oi. I said no photographs.”

My mate replied: “Yeah, but you didn’t say please.”

Which I think is fair enough.

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#80

Can’t tell if serious or not…

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#82

B’Twin 4 life

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#83

Guy who sits on my bus most day on the way from from work is a right one. Mid fifties and always sporting a fine dusting of dandruff on his shoulders chooses this time to have a small feast. Nowt wrong with that until be opens his yoghurt. Always the same method - no spoon required. Takes the lid off and then starts using his tongue to eat the contents, turning the yoghurt pot round making sure he isn’t missing any. Then uses his finger when his tongue can’t reach the yoghurt at the bottom. Utterly repulsive.

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#85

I had a Trek (second hand) hybrid bike for about six weeks til someone nicked it from our back yard. Fun fact: you need a five sided Allen key to adjust their saddles. Pain in the arse (though hopefully the person who stole it was significantly shorter than me)

#88

Part of me has always wanted to follow them when they move. Just to see what they do.

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#89

There’s this mother and daughter duo I see a lot, and they’re the absolute epitome of bourgeoisie hyper neurotic parenting and everything they talk about fills me with horror, and I wish I could be there to see their mugs when they both realise life just won’t work out.

#90

It could be that. I didn’t see there were two empty seats at the end of the row until I had already sat down. The one she moved to though was the priority seat for people that need it and she had to give it up at the next stop.

#91

Other than that it’s just groups of contractor ladsladsladslads playing crap on their phones,

#92

Maybe he isn’t a decorator, and the constantly being needlessly covered in paint is the reason for the anger.

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#93

Commute’s changed recently so no new regulars yet. On my old commute there were two women who I mentally named “mutton” and “legs”, both for highly dubious reasons. Other less regular, but regularish included Josie Long, Stephen Twigg MP and “the ginger bloke who played the dad in Humans”.

#95

People I’ve seen on my commute (not regular)

  • HRH The Duchess Of Cambridge (accompanied by four men who I presume were minders);
  • Bill Oddie (I didn’t ask him to rub his beard all over my body)
#96

Everyone’s pretty normal on my commute so I feel a bit left out here. I don’t think I’ve ever shared my commute with anyone strange.

Wait… Maybe I’m the strange one on the commute!

#97

I don’t think it’s that my fellow commuters are particularly strange… To paraphrase @atrophie it’s more the effect of seeing the same tiny idiosyncrasies repeated day after day!

#98

Good point! I suppose I’ve ony been doing this one since the last week of October and once I’m in the new job I’ll be walking to work. I’ll keep an eye out then, will surely start noticing something!

#99

A new colleague of mine has started standing on the same part of the platform for the same train.

Think I’m gonna have to start getting an earlier train, because I just want to read my book. Cannot remotely be arsed chatting about work before work.

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#100

Yeah, can’t stand chatting to work colleagues on the way in. I just want to listen to Ghostface Killah in peace!

#101

Keep seeing a bloke on the walk to work who looks like a grungier Mick Hucknall. He always wears a big coat, Doc Martens and sometimes has two dogs with him.

Also see a slightly hippyish woman riding a bike to work with one of those massive 80s cycle helmets on. Saw her getting into an argument with a man in a car the other week.