You know the summer’s truly over when the impatient stress heads come out to play in every walk of life. From the tube, to the office, on the streets, they’re everywhere… So, if you spot any of the below signs that my friends and I have spotted recently, move quickly away so you’re out of reach when they explode.
- Standing behind you so close that we’re touching in a queue of only two
- Pushing me out of the way to get a seat on the tube when there are four empty seats and just the two of us getting on
- Repeatedly punching the ‘close door’ button in a lift as I’m trying to get on
- Repeatedly punching the ‘close door’ button in a lift before I’ve finished getting out
- Aggressively pushing in front of me in a crowd of people to get exactly one place in front of me
- Train conversations getting louder and more frantic by the second regardless of how ‘confidential’ the details of the call are
- People snapping ‘I’m DOING it’ before you can even say ‘hi how are you’
- People walking down the streets of London
- and those on tube escalators shouting ‘come on’ at the queue of walkers ahead of them
I guess people have returned from the Olympics hiatus and summer holidays with the pressure of doing deals and billing quickly. However, being an arse probably won’t help. Chill out people…
Laura King is the author of The Little Book of Tube Etiquette, published by Gibson Publishing, available in paperback at Waterstones, WH Smith and most online retailers.
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