The Little Book of Tube Etiquette – sometimes breaking the rules can be funny

Some of you readers will remember my blog of a few weeks ago whereby my slightly sozzled hiccups and subsequent giggles got the better of me.

I have since witnessed a drunken tube event which made me cry actual tears of laughter.

Picture another late night, me not so drunk as before, but the man sitting opposite me definitely so.  He is at least six and a half feet tall and is sitting down in the middle of a row filled with smaller (normal sized) people. The tube is busy, full of people making their way home after a night out.

This man, long limbs sprawled out, has fallen asleep and is snoring, intertwined with muttering under his breath. The carriage is quiet; a lot of people are sleeping or reading books.

Suddenly, this man lets out a scream and his long arms and legs do something of a star shape. This sets off a chain reaction. Like dominoes going along the seating people let off funny sounds, varying degrees of squeals and yelps, some jumping out of their seats, some just twitching as they wake up.

It was literally the funniest tube etiquette rule break I’ve ever seen. A carriage of human dominoes, like a demented Mexican wave of sleeping or drunk people.

And so I’ve decided, not all tube etiquette is the same degree of unacceptable, hence why The Little Book of Tube Etiquette is split into different tolerances – the ‘unacceptables’ the ‘justcommonsensicals’ etc.

Some rule breaks are justified for entertainment purposes and I would pay to watch them over and over again. I just wished I’d broken another rule and got my phone out to tape the sequence – perfect You Tube fodder.

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