[Closed] Drinking on trains

Are you drinking from the bottle? Is it wrapped in brown paper?

Straight from the bare naked bottle.

Some train operating companies ban drinking alcohol on trains, you may well be on one of them.

It's what trains are for - why do you think the gin comes in double measures?

Tell us about the "incidents".

At Manchester Piccadilly no adult is allowed to board a train without the obligatory blue carrier bag containing at least 4 cans of Stella, and a steak bake from Greggs

Perfectly acceptable. The drinking that is, not your taste in beer.

Got to admit - I don't like it. Not sure why.

Two tins for Weymouth to Reading.

are you dressed as a train driver?

Announcement: 'The balance calculations are a bit off, we need 5 volunteers to move to the back of the plane'

Then it skidded on landing (on ice). Those seatbelts are actually functional.

Then the next one got to the runway then had to turn around because it was broken.

And lots of bouncing and wobbling in turbulence.

They sell alcohol on the trains I use. All day long. Starting at 4.25am.

or airline pilot?

I am dressed. Though not as anything in particular. As I have been in Finland, being dressed has not always been my status this weekend. This bike journalism business requires sacrifice. Me and 4 men in a sauna. It's a new direction for STW.

What's unacceptable is people who don't realise that phone's have headphone sockets, and come with free headphones.

And people who talk really loudly whist making a call.

a woman.. alone.. on a train.. in the evening.. drinking alcohol.. I'm sure you look perfectly socially acceptable 😀

Keep drinking and keep those seats empty around you 😀

Meh. If you've not got enough to share round.....

Announcement: 'The balance calculations are a bit off, we need 5 volunteers to move to the back of the plane'

Then it skidded on landing (on ice). Those seatbelts are actually functional.

Then the next one got to the runway then had to turn around because it was broken.

Re the balance calculations: usually done before you board, and people are directed to the right areas. No-one notices this has happened. Being asked to move is nothing to worry about, sometimes the info needed comes in a little late so the calculation cannot be done in advance.

After all, the alternative would have been that they just ignored the fact that the centre of gravity was outside the allowable range and decided to gaff it off: which would you rather they did.

Similar with the broken jet: many, many systems, maintained to a very high standard. When something does go wrong, they don't go flying. As before, would you rather they just ignored it and went anyway?

I've finished drinking and I'm taking my rubbish home with me. So only partially antisocial maybe.

My Mrs took our two daughters (11 & 9) down to York last weekend. The journey was ruined by pissed up women drinking and swearing loudly the entire journey. (Glaswegian Hen party) Train staff were not interested and did nothing about it.

No no no. STOUT with chocolate. Or Merlot in 1st class.

I was on a plane once where they'd clearly bollocksed the weight balance calculations right up - "front third of the plane to the back, no free seats? oh well, don't worry about sitting down just stand in the aisle and hold on to... whatever, really."

Bit of a nervous take off that one if I'm being honest.

I was in a hotel bar a few weeks back (drinking coffee, to note) and a very very drunk young Glaswegian lady decided to join me.

Barely understood a word she was saying.

A few mins later an only-slightly-less-inebriated boyfriend turns up, and we all engage in a perfectly acceptable natter for 10 mins or so, probably nobody understanding a word anyone was saying.

Then as I'm making my excuses to leave, the lady of the group just stared intently at me and declared "You're a wee little c**t".

God knows how I must have looked, but the BF looked terrified.

I thanked them for a lovely chat, and left.

So, if there was a group of them on a train and I was a member of staff? I'd bloody leave them be too!

Yeh there's a difference between having a drink, and causing a nuisance.

It's probably the singing.

I must admit I felt very council when I did it once.

Yeh there's a difference between having a drink, and causing a nuisance.

Or just a short interval of time between the two 🙂

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The drinking that is, not your taste in beer.

Drinking on trains is a perfectly acceptable way of passing the time and keeping the seat next to you empty.

2 cans for me on the 55min journey home from Uni on Saturdays, usually.

Beer and reading a geology paper usually puts people off.

As you're not a solicitor I think you'll be tolerated.

I think drink is fine for anyone who can handle it without becoming an anti social tosspot. Maybe there should be alcohol free carriages, along with child free carriages and a permanent ban for those that sit in the aisle seat with their bag on the window seat when the train is really busy. And pretending to be asleep across 2 seats isn't ok either. Nor is really sleeping and snoring.

Drinking beer is fine.
Now then....what happened in the sauna?

I've finished drinking and I'm taking my rubbish home with me.

Ah, leaving rubbish on trains is a particular pet gate of mine. I mean, it's not like they don't put bins in the vestibules right by the door the littering ****s loiter n ct to for 10 minutes before they arrive at their station.

Lazy cockwombles.

Used to be an office worker on the commute I did who'd board with four cans of cider each evening, and be done with two of them a couple of stops later. Guess work sucked or home life sucked, or just liked getting pissed on the way home (fair enough).

Usual train drinkers I'd see though were the hen party types. Or at least a bunch of girls off on the piss. Loads of booze in various bags and they're already shitfaced before they've got on the train to go to whatever place they're going to get even worse at.

Last time we drank on the train we were mixing up fresh mojitos and we were very popular 😀

Once got on pissed at kings cross after an interview in london heading back to Newcastle like had 8 cans with .E for reasons best known to my greedy self.

Lovely older man opposite me, ordered a beer from the trolley, I forgot about by cans and ordered the special 3 for 5, at which point he changed his order to 3 for a 5.

3 hours later having drank my beers, more.trolley beers, some of the tepid beers from my bag, a bottle of wine he had with him, we just about .Issued getting off at Newcastle and had to runnfoenth exit.

Shook hands and parted company, not before asking what he did he was Dr. someone a.lecturer at Durham university

Worst hangover ever

Have you not got off the train yet?