to think this is a little anti-social

[watermargin]

I get the train to work every morning, and it is usually very busy. This morning, a woman sat next to me and started to eat a sandwich, which smelt unpleasant (an egg sandwich) and then opened a packet of beef & onion crisps. I hate those crisps anyway which may explain my reaction! As anyone who travels on trains knows you don't get a lot of room so I was forced to sit with an unpleasant smell for a while.

She also broke wind on a number of occasions, and the smell was ghastly, like hot drains.

AIBU to think this is anti social and inconsiderate?

[BlackAffronted]

Farting, yes.

Eating no. She may have morning sickness/diabetes/other medicalissue that means she has to eat at that time.

[billybeau]

Crisps and sandwich, no, not anti-social (though why she was eating those so early!) but breakinng wind, very anti-social

[watermargin]

Possibly. It seems unlikely though. She got on at the last station before the train terminated so was only on the train for ten minutes max. I'm currently pregnant and the smell of the food made me feel really nauseous - I wouldn't have been rude enough to say "don't eat that please!" though.

If I absolutely had to eat something I'd choose fruit or cereal bars as well which is unlikely to be smelly/loud to eat!

[OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos]

Yes, very anti social. Even if she does have a condition that means she has to eat at that time, she doesn't have to eat smelly food. I can't think of any medical condition that requires crisps!

[CarolynR]

Not anti-social but inconsiderate. I try and only eat non-messy and non-smelly foods in public.

[startail]

Chicken crisps were the best thing I found for morning sickness (bland own brand ones, not stinky beef and onion).

[RobinSparkles]

Are you sure she farted? It might have been the smell from her egg.

Unless she did it loudly? I don't know, some people just don't have the grace to do it quietly, do they? She should have done her best to squeeze her arse cheeks shut!

[ecclesvet]

Because other people don't want to smell the horrible gases and particles of shit? Just my guess.

[RobinSparkles]

True, but everybody has to don't they? Even the Queen!

[LeBOF]

Yes, very anti-social. Height of bad manners.

[mrsscoob]

YANBU I was sat on a bus once, a tad hungover admittedly when this really stinky man got on sat in front of me and started eating a prawn sandwich, It was so gross I had to get off the bus, I still feel a little sick just thinking about it!

[headinhands]

an·ti·so·cial (nt-sshl, nt-)
adj.

1. Shunning the society of others; not sociable.
2. Hostile to or disruptive of the established social order; marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores: gangs engaging in vandalism and other antisocial behavior.
3. Antagonistic toward or disrespectful of others; rude.

She wasn't antisocial. She was eating.

[Helltotheno]

Silent deadly farts on a packed train? Gross, gross, gross... Just save it til you get out in the fresh air then let rip if you want.
Egg sarnie? Nothing in principle wrong with eating one on a train but hard on those with sensitive morning tums...

[watermargin]

She farted audibly twice and muttered 'sorry' the first time. The smell was terrible - really 'hot' like drains or a sewer. Utterly vile. I realise everyone needs to fart sometimes but I'd have gone into the toilet to do it personally. I think it's really rude!

[Bibulus]

If it was that bad smelling, she might have been suffering with some sort of bowel problem? at least she had the good grace to apologise. poor woman might have been quite embarrassed

but having said that, I am often amazed at how often, and how stinkily, other people fart on my morning train

I don't want to smell the insides of other people's colons at that time of the morning

so no, YANBU

[Ambrosius]

YANBU. Stranded I can't believe you don't know how to hold a fart in. Not for a second.

[NamesKerry]

Being enveloped in another persons foul faecal mist. I'd have probably puked in her lap. Dirty mare!

[BigBoPeep]

yaNbu! cats bum mouth? I would've turned INTO a cat's bum! eeeeeew! agree with nameskerry.

[jazzchickens]

egg sandwich is probably not the best option if one has a wind problem.

[LeBOF]

Smelly food in a confined space and smelly farts are anti-social. They demonstrate rudeness and disregard for the comfort of others. Which contravenes social mores. Unless you are from somewhere that encourages that kind of behaviour.