A row has broken out after a rail passenger was allegedly threatened with being reported to police due to the smell of his feet.
Ugh!
Joe Mason said he had been 'victimised, humiliated and made to feel like a second class citizen' by a member of Southern Rail staff after taking his shoes off on a train. Southern Rail said it was investigating the incident but denied these claims.
The picture of him in the paper is somewhat telling, I feel...
"I attempted to explain that I had a medical condition that results in my feet blistering and that removing my shoe helped to ease my pain.
"The Southern Railway staff member then told me I was lying and even threatened to get the transport police if I did not put on my shoe."
Quite right too!
, yet another person with a lack of respect, both for themselves and their fellow humans. If I knew my feet were so smelly, I'd be mortified if I inflicted them on my fellow passengers. Reminds me of my late brother when we were kids. Normally we slept in single beds with the head ends together in an L-shape. If I really pissed him off he'd swap ends and inflict his teenage smelly feet on me.
ReplyDeleteIt's the entitlerment culture - 'I've paid a fare, I'm entitled to do what I want'.
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