You don't paint you nails or watch videos on your phone without headphones on a bloody plane!!

That's the thing it was only a domestic flight so small plane, it was quite bumpy and she just carried on as if she performes manicures in turbulence all the time.

Sympathies. I once sat next to a woman who started painting her nails on a flight. It stank.

Fortunately the air hostess told her to stop.

Why haven't transport operators done anything about it? It's a huge problem on all forms of transport. It's nauseating actually the extent of it. I asked my local bus operator if they were going to put signs up on their buses since they've got signed for everything else and they said no. Why not? It's not like noise in public spaces isn't regulated.

Neither are things I'd do on an plane or anywhere else, but I think probably if other people and their foibles annoy you to this extent, it's best not to go on a plane with 200 people in a small space.

Nail polish is a migraine trigger for me so this would be my worst nightmare. They might change their mind about the manicure if the seatbelt sign was on and I had no choice but to start being sick next to them into the sick bag due to the migraine!!

Times like that you wish for really bad turbulence.

Headphones should definitely be used in these situations I would understand if it was a sen child though as for nail Polish that's completely unreasonable

Yanbu I’m so sick of people not wearing headphones, guy recently in the physio waiting room just scrolling through TikTok loudly and a couple of weeks back but annoyed me much more was in a hospital waiting room a carer in uniform just scrolling through, no headphones, speaker ridiculously loud. Wear headphones or watch that stuff on mute.

YANBU at all. I experienced a grown man watching instagram videos at full volume on a transatlantic night flight last week. I was so desperate to sleep I could have throttled him.

Strong smell in a small space.

David Sedarus recounts a woman on a train doing it and he asks her to stop , she won’t believe the small is getting to him.

We were on a flight to munich on Friday night. There was a very loud very tinny shouting sound coming from a couple of rows in front, a passenger en route to Beijing just listening to a very shouty programme in mandarin. No one said anything. It she’d have been close to me I would, as I did to a bloke in a Hilton lounge in London. Have you got earphones? No. Well you can’t listen to that then. Cue him turning it off but five minutes later starting again, told him again and he stopped. Who doesn’t have headphones/earbuds these days?

theres a passage in the latest Richard osman about it where a bloke won’t turn his loud phone off and the character has a gun which she points at his groin and explains that if she shoots him and then gets put on trial, as soon as the judge and jury hear why she did it they will not only find her not guilty but will cheer her!

I'll add it was a daft thing to do but it wasn't malicious, just unthinking. I was a single parent to a pre schooler on our way to visit family. I probably just thought this is a good opportunity as I'm sat down.

About 15 years ago I started painting my nails on a flight to Ireland. A flight attendant asked me to stop almost straight away.

I think having your music blasting at the gym bc you've forgotten your headphones is a dick move too. Today I had my TV show, the gym music and some guys music all at the same time. I need noise cancelling headphones

We were once on a bus where it said clearly at the front . Be considerate - use headphones for phones . It didnt mention nail polish ! But we said at the time that sign should be on all transport.

Why on earth would you impressed with someone polluting a plane load of people with nail polish fumes?

Did you say something? Everyone always says they're too afraid of confrontation but everybody I've addressed has always turned the volume off. Somtimes it's accompanied with embarrassment and sometimes a glare and a mutter but oh well.

I'm guessing a weekend flight to Benidorm or similar lol 😊That sounds like I'm a snob I am a bit . But it could be to anywhere I suppose, since many are just lacking self awareness and have a huge sense of entitlement. Travelling shines a light on the behaviour of others. Maybe I'm not perfect either, but I'd like to think I try and be ok by using noise cancelling headphones, no perfume, etc.

I agree that all forms of transport should demand the use of headphones/buds. The majority do use them anyway so I reckon it's mostly indulgent silly parents who allow their kids to watch stuff that's the problem, although adults do it too.

It's an easy win really. Put your phone in flight mode, fasten your seatbelt, put seat in the upright position and use headphones/buds throughout the flight. Thank you.

That's horrific. What kind of flight was it?

I find people who use spray deodorants in the swimming changing room make me wheezy so this would be appalling.

the nail varnish thing! How did they not twig that? Small space, how many people and stinky nail varnish!!!

I have a friend who files her nails on the tube to work. I’ve told her it’s disgusting but she can’t understand why.

Yanbu. People are so totally obnoxious at the moment. It seems much worse since covid weirdly

The smell isn't a natural one. If quite near to you not very nice. There are lots of people who don't really think when they do things.

Because they're the ones painting their nails and listening to shite without headphones. Dicks