"With my knapsack on my back"

[Uncle Mort]

What is it with knapsacks? You’re a commuter on a train, you’re not going to be climbing Mount Everest so just get that bloody great big knapsack out of my face.

OK?
 

[Nick]

Maybe it had a bomb in it

[Uncle Mort]

I doubt it. 

What has happend to the "great Terrorist Threat" anyway. Hasn't the government any bad news to bury at the moment?

[Nick]

It has gone a bit quiet on the crazed bombers front. I think the McCann case is keeping some of the real news out of the papers. I predict that when the body is found the bombers will return.

[Bar Wench]

1) Regular travelers of public transport carry a lot of things with them because you never know how long you may get caught for.

2) Regular travelers of public transport wear bags that keep their hands free so that in the case of sudden stoppage/gropping/tripping you can deal with it.

[Barman]

It has gone a bit quiet on the crazed bombers front. I think the McCann case is keeping some of the real news out of the papers. I predict that when the body is found the bombers threat will return.

There... 

[Nick]

1) Regular travelers of public transport carry a lot of tat and chocolate  with them because you never know how long you may get caught for.

[Uncle Mort]

1) Regular travelers of public transport carry a lot of things with them because you never know how long you may get caught for.

2) Regular travelers of public transport wear bags that keep their hands free so that in the case of sudden stoppage/gropping/tripping you can deal with it.

I'm a regular traveller and I do neither.

How long would you expect to be delayed on a train to need 'supplies'? And once on the train I put my briefcase on the luggage rack. Half the knapsacks wouldn't even fit on the rack. What are they carrying around?

[Bar Wench]

2 books, litre of water water, lunch, umbrella, make-up. I also have to carry a change of clothes when it rains because I regularly get drenched by bloody drivers swerving through puddles.

[chuntering again]

Because trains are full of students going up to Uni on concessionary railcards?

[Nick]

2 books, litre of water water, lunch, umbrella, make-up. I also have to carry a change of clothes when it rains because I regularly get drenched by bloody drivers swerving through puddles.

A litre of water? Don't they have a tap where you work?

[Uncle Mort]

Because trains are full of students going up to Uni on concessionary railcards?

No, they are definitely city workers.

And Wenchy, two books ~ what's that, one for each eye?

[Barman]

Because trains are full of students going up to Uni on concessionary railcards?

No, they are definitely city workers.

And Wenchy, two books ~ what's that, one for each eye?

One is a proper book and the other is that dirty one she has been reading I 'spec... 

[Bar Wench]

Two books in case I finish one. I got stuck without reading material for 40 mins before I even got on a train last week.

I drink a litre of water on the way to work most days. 

[Nick]

Do you also carry a potty with you?