The Nine Most Irritating People You’ll Come Across On Public Transport

Public transport, it can only be a love/hate relationship.

You're saving the notes and coppers, leaving enough for a social life at the weekend, but you're bunged onto a train/bus/tram with a group of people you have no desire to spend time with.

Let's face it. You're more than likely heading to work and trying to snatch a few extra minutes of snooze onboard or you're coming home from work and all you want is peace and quiet.

It's all well until you come across one of these public transport staples...

1. The Person Who Plays Music Off Their Phone

There is nothing more irritating than trying to block out the sound of somebody's phone tunes. So much so, sometimes we feel like offering them our earphones, or bashing them over the head with our phone. Either or. Maybe we should just be grateful we've moved on from the eardrum-grinding, monophonic ringtone bleeps.

2. The Smelly Guy

The kind of smell where you need to hold your breath and turn around before you can breathe again. It might be post-work or gym BO or it might have been festering for weeks, either way they need a wash. A subtle passing over of a Lynx can could do the trick.

3. The Person Who Talks To Themselves

Mutter, mutter, mumble... it just makes us feel uncomfortable.

4. The Person Who Has The Full-Blown Conversation

We'll admit it that we're nosey. Nosiness is human nature, in Ireland anyway. But sometimes the urge to add our own ha'penny's worth into full-blown conversations on the bus gets too much. Desperate stories of relationships, drink-filled nights out, to-do lists... it's just all too much when we're dying for a bit of peace and quiet on our daily commute.

Well, he looks delighted with his daily commute... 

5. The Person Who's Loaded Down With Bags

We're speaking from our own experience here. It is us a lot of the time, yes, but we can see just how much it annoys people. Bashing past with your handbag, laptop bag, gym bag, lunch bag and umbrella in tow... until you notice there are no seats back there either and you've to bash, crash and scramble your way back up to the top.

6. The Person Who Pretends They Can't Hear Their Kid Screeching

Do parents have some sort of power where they can switch their kids on mute in their own ears? Or do they actually wear earplugs? There is nothing more frustrating than a screaming child with a parent who doesn't believe in bribing. Bribe! Bribe! Just make him be quiet again!

7. The Person Who Holds Up The Whole Show

The person who will stand at the bus stop waiting for twenty minutes... and will then only begin to count their change when they hop on.

8. The Starer

You can feel it, can't you?

9. The Mad Ol' One

The woman you will make friends with by the end of your trip, no matter how long or short the journey and no matter how much you want to. She will have stories of old to tell and she'll definitely know someone who could know your granny...