If the train seats on your daily commute fill you with existential anguish it seems you’re not alone.

Metro Trains’ “streamers and confetti-inspired” seat fabric design (a hangover from Melbourne’s old suburban train operator Connex) was recently named among some of the world's most garish.

The design that "summons a bleak reminder of that tear-filled childhood birthday party you had the year Daddy left,” according to CityLab. Credit:Joe Armao

“[This] summons a bleak reminder of that tear-filled childhood birthday party you had the year Daddy left,” CityLab caustically opined in an international round-up of bus, train and subway seat designs.

CityLab, the urban-focused website of The Atlantic, invited followers on Twitter to send examples of public transport seat coverings from all over the world.