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Part of the problem with the London Underground is the people on it.

Not the majority of people - just those select few that seem to feel the need to cause chaos or start fights, even at 8am in the morning when nobody wants to deal with that.

Londoners took to Reddit to share their own stories about the worst people they've encountered while travelling on the Underground.

And while they're personal stories, we're pretty sure most of you will have have had similar experiences at some point.

The pusher

"Skipped the queue at the Tube doors by shoving me out of the way with her shoulder, and then had a go at me when I didn't move out of her way.

"Then she had a further go at me for 'standing too close to her' in the packed rush hour Tube. Perhaps I was just supposed to melt into the floor?"

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The armrest thief

"Sat down next to me and decided that she could claim the armrest currently occupied by my arm simply by elbowing me forcefully off it.

"She then tried (without success) to shove my arm off the armrest for the remainder of the journey. Little did she know that although I am a small woman and might look like a weak target, I also lift weights competitively."

The paranoid passenger

"Was on the escalator step below me, saw me laughing at something I read on my phone and started screaming that I was taking pictures of her and that she was going to call the police.

"I told her to go ahead and call them if she wanted to but she decided instead to just follow me through the station yelling at me until she finally ran out of steam."

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The barrier rage passenger

"I tapped my Oyster card and it didn’t go through and someone else tapped too soon behind me and proceeded to have a rage attack at me for stealing her money.

"I was confused at first then I said, we can ask a TfL worker about getting you a refund and she screamed I owed her £1.50 and that she could see I WASN’T EVEN SORRY. She then stormed off leaving me even more confused."

The Good Samaritan

"A bunch of lads who thought it was funny to mess with a clearly homeless man who was passed out drunk on the Tube.

"My friend stepped in quite tactfully and it ended with the lads helping her out to find homeless shelters for him to get to and apologising."

The self righteous businessman

"Just recently I did the 'step out of the carriage' thing at Canary Wharf Jubilee during the rush hour, only to be rudely shoulder tapped by a guy who asked me why I did it and called me an idiot.

"I'm still not sure why. I wasn't fully out of the carriage but I'd left enough space for people to pass and it was a lot easier than if I'd stayed in the same spot.

"I told him I'd gladly step back further if he wanted, but his attitude wasn't making anyone's journey easier. He didn't like that and glared at me for the rest of the journey to Stratford."

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The space hijacker

"On Monday on my way home, there were a few cancelled trains so the train was absolutely rammed. I was standing right by the door, and somebody behind me was trying to get off, so I stepped off the train to let him off.

"As I did so, a woman with a wheelie suitcase just jumped straight on into my space, meaning I couldn't get back on.

"I had to wait for another 2 trains before there was one with enough space to get on."

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