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To pick hair off my clothes on public transport

37 replies

Sundaycoffee · 30/05/2024 16:14

I was sat on the train today and absent-mindedly picked a loose hair off my trousers and dropped it on the floor.
The woman on the aisle seat opposite me said vedy loudly "excuse me do you mind not dropping your hair all over the train carriage?"
It's not like I was sitting there brushing my hair over everyone. Surely if you're travelling on public transport you occasionally accept that you might have to be in the vicinity of a strand of hair off someone??
Or am I being totally disgusting and unreasonable?

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Scully01 · 02/06/2024 20:00

Mamette · 02/06/2024 18:49

Wow, she should get the train where I live. She would have her work cut out for her reprimanding people.

A few weeks ago the man beside me was picking scabs off his scalp and putting them in a Tesco bag for life. I did move as soon as I could. I think one hair is really not an issue.

Jesus wept 🤣😭

Mamette · 02/06/2024 18:52

Although maybe she would have been ok about you putting your hair in a bag for life, now I think about it 🤔

At least then you wouldn’t have been dropping it “all over” the place 😂

Mamette · 02/06/2024 18:49

Wow, she should get the train where I live. She would have her work cut out for her reprimanding people.

A few weeks ago the man beside me was picking scabs off his scalp and putting them in a Tesco bag for life. I did move as soon as I could. I think one hair is really not an issue.

Emmz1510 · 02/06/2024 18:46

What did you say to her OP?
How ridiculous

TwattyMcFuckFace · 31/05/2024 18:04

I'd assume she had some sort of personal issues and just roll my eyes inwardly.

piningforautumn · 31/05/2024 17:59

What a witch! Loose hairs gross some people out, but realistically, we're all shedding hair and skin everywhere we go. She should have looked away and thought about something else rather than trying to shame you for something so insignificant.

If I'd been there and started picking off some of the long, white hairs I always seem to be covered in (courtesy of my dogs), I'd have given her a fit.

qpid5tunt · 31/05/2024 17:54

As long as they weren't pubes I don't see the problem🤭

ReginaPerrin · 30/05/2024 19:18

How did she even know it was your hair? It could have attached itself to you anywhere on your journey. She was being a twat.

GrandHighPoohbah · 30/05/2024 16:20

Put it down to her having a bad day and ignore. It must be exhausting for her, being so invested in such minutiae.

IncognitoUsername · 30/05/2024 16:18

Ignore her. Why are people so involved in what other people are doing?

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 30/05/2024 16:16

YANBU - she was being ridiculous. Hair, skin cells and general fluff and dust fall off people and things all the time. Train carriages will be full of it! Silly woman. Someone people are just irrationally pernickety.

Billyhargrovesmullet · 30/05/2024 16:15

No she’s being ridiculous does she think no one loses hair anyway its not like you’re littering