Seeing a chav get put in his place.

I don't normally like train conductors. I usually find them patronising, and hate how they think they can treat people like dirt. I'm sure letting people off isn't in there job description, but being a nasty piece of work isn't either.

Are you gonna bang doe?

However, today, I actually had positive feelings towards one. I was heading home on the train to Tamworth, when the train conductor came through the aisle. He was a really kind guy, chatting to everyone whose tickets he checked and having a laugh, and he even had a chuckle at the disgusting photo on my railcard. There he was, doing his business, until he went a few rows behind me.

Sitting there was the biggest idiot in public. He'd already annoyed me by playing his gangster rap really loud on the train (he obviously hadn't heard of the invention of earphones), so I didn't have a positive vibe towards him anyway. The train conductor came up to him and asked him for a ticket, as he does because that's his job, when the chav replied 'ain't got one.'

The conductor then offered the guy to purchase a ticket on the train, but the passenger replied 'ain't got money.' Both then began arguing, with the conductor rightly pointing out that if he can't purchase a ticket, he can't travel, and he needs to pay a fine. And the conductor was such a nice man, he was telling the guy to pay the fine at the next station, where there's a cash machine for him to get money out, and then he could simply hop on the next train and all could be sorted. But the chav was having none of it.

Then things began getting personal. Even though the conductor wasn't singling him out, and this time was genuinely doing his job, the chav began raising his voice, saying how the conductor worked in a 'dead-end job' and telling the conductor that in a few years time he would 'go to university, and then get a job earning ten times as much' as the conductor does now. He then raised his voice even louder, saying that the conductor needs to get a better job than the 'f**king s**thole' he works in now.

This was when the conductor pulled out a gem. He calmly let the chav finish his stupid rant, before stating "I went to university actually. I went to Cambridge and got a first in Chemistry. And this is where I've ended up, with a job I love, making money. That's life" before walking off.

Like probably every other passenger in the carriage, I wanted to pat the conductor on the back. He wasn't taking anything from that idiot, and the chav's ranting and swearing got him a £20 fine. For the rest of the journey, the chav slouched in his chair and stayed quiet. Just how I wish he'd stayed the whole journey.