Sniffing on trains

I mean, re music and OTT noise YANBU but really, the rest is just being around actual living people. Its public transport, there will be people there. Should everyone sit in silence, facing forward and still for the duration? If its really unbearable for you, maybe use noise cancelling headphones?

Oh I include watching sound up videos in music. That's totally not ok. I started reading my book out loud once when the guy next to me put the sound up on the football match he was watching. He looked at me like I was crazy and I nodded at his phone and said 'I thought we were sharing?' He turned it off 🤣

I am totally with you. Blow your nose FFS. Also the very strong smell of weed at 6am is gross.

I recently did 2 long train journeys for the first time in about 20 years. Either people have got worse, or my tolerance has withered and died.

There was one guy who cracked out his Dominos pizza and cans of cider at lunch time. No issue with the pizza, thought it was a smart idea, wished id thought of it myself tbh, but the noises, it was like being on a farmyard. The lip smacking was unreal, he wasn't even close but I could hear him a good half a carriage away. At one point the woman sat next to turned and asked if it was just her... no love, its not!

Other than the chap who jumped on, downed 4 cans of fosters and jumped off at the next stop, leaving his cans and rubbish everywhere, the guy who kicked off because staff had the audacity to check tickets, and the guy having a loud and animated phone call behind my head for 3 hours, the journey was fine.

Actually, im sensing a theme here....

True…but honestly, I would rather be sat next to someone sniffing than someone blowing their nose. I cannot bear it when people blow their noses in public. Ick.

It’s a zillion times worse when you’re at work. I’ve actually said “who’s sniffing?” Fella admitted it and carried on. Urghhhhhhh

Personally I will never understand how blowing your nose in public is more socially acceptable than sniffing. Just blow your horrible germy snot into a soggy hankie without washing your hands, lovely. Not to mention it never bloody helps with a runny nose

I loathe and detest sniffers more than anything else - in fact there’s one next to me now! Noise cancelling headphones have saved my sanity…

Another reason why there should be a return to some compartments in trains (one carriage in a say 8 or 10 car train). Would be more effective than a quiet coach.

I don't get sniffers hardly at all, you are just unlucky it seems.

Those who smell of drugs, just text the BTP with details, assume they have them on their person.

Sniffing is terrible! Just blow your nose for goodness sake.

To be fair, I have been caught short on dog walks, when my hayfever has been triggered, and I might not have a packet of tissues on me. I always have tissues in my handbags.

It might be the person is caught short and would offer them a tissue, hopefully they would get the hint. Although, on a train, you would think they would go to the toilet and get tissue!

I am the same OP. I take head phones or ear plugs wherever I go. My DH and DC know not to crunch in front of me although I think I'm really sensitive to these noise. Also chewing, slurping and people biting cutlery!
The sharing of a book is a great idea!

I travel regularly by train and I feel like I’ve seen it all. A guy sat next to me once, turned to the window and sneezed all over it without covering his mouth. Another man took off his shoes in summer and put his sweaty feet up on the seat next to me.
The sniffers really get under my skin, I get up and move away if possible.

"I immediately end up in the near vicinity of someone snuffling and sniffing and snorting."

Possible allergies? When I commuted morning trains were a nightmare for me with all the scents people put on.

Why do people sniff so much? I get that sometimes they have a cold but sometimes I think it's just a habit. A really annoying habit.

Allergic reactions. The perfumes, the various smells. General allergies too.

You cannot blow your nose to sort allergies.

The sneezing directly onto a window. 🤢

I’m curious about the shoe one—did he have flip-flops or similar that he could easily slip out of, or did he lean over, untie both shoes, remove both socks, then plonk his feet up?

People are weird.

I agree it's disgusting, but it is you, many people don't even notice it. It's called misophonia. Wear earpods or headphones.

I had to get off a tube carriage and get back into another one once due to manky sniffing, I was getting close to gagging. It’s the idea of snot sliding up and down people’s tubes and being swallowed that grims me out. Most other things don’t bother me (though if I tune into loud chewing I sometimes can’t tune out again) but it’s the specifics of what is being sniffed and swallowed that troubles me.

My DF (a farmer) used to just close one nostril and shoot his boogers out of the other one when walking across the fields. I wasn’t a big fan of that either.

Spent 3 hours next to someone typing the whole time on their laptop. Must have been emailing someone they were furious with. Surprised they didn't break their laptop tbh.

This is why people avoid public transport.

Unfortunately, there will always be other members of the public on that transport, with real human bodies, bodily functions, and idiosyncratic tendencies.

Made worse by the fact that people can largely (within legal reason) act how they want in public - including sniffing, sneezing, blowing noses, taking shoes off, smelling of perfume or BO, talking on phones, watching media without headphones, typing.

One of the unavoidable risks of leaving the house, perhaps? I encounter similar in the supermarket, cafes, street etc. and many of these things at work too - god the typing, calls, sniffing, chewing and nose blowing at work!

Once sat next to someone who was filing her nails with one of those glass emery board type things. To me, that was worse than any of the above. I did turn my headphones up to top volume to drown out the noise, but I still knew she was doing it, so didn't really help

Brilliant! 😂

I have twice now resorted to finding very loud foghorns on YouTube. I even discovered a 3-hour foghorn playlist (who knew such a thing existed?). I say something like, "If you are allowed to enjoy your TikToks, I'm allowed to enjoy my foghorns."