
As a student and as a somewhat ecologically aware person, it is inevitable that I must frequently use the train to commute to daily places of work. Along the way, I have developed a set of rules that should apply to everyone who shares the same fate as me:
1. FEET
Your dirty, ingrown, hairy cankles look unsightly and have just put me well off my lunch. Get some real shoes, for Peets sake!
2. FOOD
See that sticker up there? (Because obviously, common sense is not common at all.) It doesn’t just refer to a hamburger and a milkshake (although to be fair that’s what it looks like.) It also means NO KFC, NO stinking sausage roll, VB cans, Wild Turkey& Cola, or any other food and beverage item. No one wants to sit there and smell your deep fried pickled ox tongue.
3. KIDS
Undesirable. The Kid is annoying. tell him to SIT DOWN and shut the fiddle up!!!
4. ELDERLY
See that old lady over there bent over a frame? She’s not making a porno. She’s just had a hip replacement.
See your chair?
The one your sitting in?
GET. OUT.
5. BUMS
I don’t know what to do about this one, but seriously, you need a chair for each butt cheek and your greasy arm is rubbing up against me and I feel like I might be about to get a little bit of sick in my mouth.
6. PEAK HOUR
Hey! You! People in the Aisles that got on in Midland! YOU ARE NOT VIP. You are not more important than the people getting on at East Perth. Sorry to break the news to you. Its peak hour on here- everyone needs to get to work for that career-defining presentation. That includes you Mr Briefcase. MOVE DOWN!!!!!!!! The people in the doorway can’t breathe and I think someone just had his nose shaved off by the doors.
7. PHONES & iPODS
Do I really need to point this out? Really? Are you actually assuming we are cool with hearing all about your best friends’s divorce? Do you really think everyone on here likes listening to Slipknot at 7am?