The ultimate guide to travel etiquette: how to handle 36 tricky situations, from manspreaders to smelly armpits
Source: www.theguardian.com ·
Section: headlines ·
Bias: Center-Left
· Published: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:00:11 GMT
It’s easy to lose your cool when you’re crammed into a train, bus or plane with a bunch of strangers and one of them is playing music without headphones or fighting you for the armrest. Here are the rules everyone should be followingPublic transport can be a hot, noisy, cramped and stressful environment – and that’s before you add in people with pungent food, questionable hygiene and giant backpacks. Most of us know the general rules – though we don’t all follow them – about letting people off first, not putting bags on seats, where to stand on escalators and offering your seat to others. But what about the vaguer conventions? How can you avoid chatty passengers? Or manspreaders? Is it sometimes OK to put your feet on the seats? (Spoiler: it’s not.) Here, three etiquette experts show us the way to public transport propriety. Continue reading...
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