Sniffing on trains

I doubt people can help it and I think you're just lucky you don't deal with allergies. I didn't used to understand why people would need to sniff or even sneeze and then I developed hay fever and some other allergy. Now when it's bad I have no choice but to sniff occasionally unless I want to keep tissues stuck up my nose, it runs that much. Just be glad you're not the one suffering! If you don't have a runny nose you can't really sniff even if you tried, people aren't doing it on purpose.

My stepson did it as a kid...gave me the rage but I had to bury it

I used to work on the checkout at Sainsbury's. As soon as I got on my till it would be 4 hours of constant running nose and sneezing. Turns out the underneath of the till space had years of dust built up (for some reason the team leaders thought it was our job to clean it even though no one realised it was there)

Sniffling thing could be a tick. I know someone who has it, annoys the hell out of me but can’t be helped.

The sound of sniffing fills me with uncontrollable rage. I’m amazed it hasn’t got me into trouble.

I don’t know what those of us with allergic rhinitis are supposed to do. Just gone through the first page of replies and equal numbers are appalled by sniffing on the one hand and blowing the nose on the other. Nice to know I’m going to appall somebody.

But I’m 52, spent decades schlepping around on packed public transport so I stopped giving any shits a while ago.

I don’t like people who wear perfume and deodorant, making me sneeze or my nose run. They don’t tend to get the evils though.

The hocking and sniffing sends me absolutely feral. I can’t bare it. I once went absolutely batshit when some guy hocked and spat in my local playground. Imagine if a kid tripped and fell in that.

It's the luck of the draw on trains. Unfortunately some awful, entitled people exist and there is no escape.

I always bring my own earphones

Am so glad you started this thread as I have to sniff regularly. I have a recurring issue with my sinus where it is so swollen it is impossible to blow my nose! If I try, nothing happens apart from me going mind bendingly dizzy. However my nose still drips and runs constantly so my only option is to dab it every few seconds or sniff. Sometimes the area around my nose is really sore from dabbing it too much so sniffing is less painful, I know people don’t understand but it isn’t my fault!

I always get the sniffles on trains. I put it down to something in the upholstery fabric.

I just wipe my nose with a tissue though, I'm not uncouth enough to sniff in close proximity to others.

Urgh, it all gives me the rage and I work on the railway so can’t avoid it 😫😂 my eyebrows have disappeared under my hairline due to the massive aggressive raising of them. Whenever I have asked people to use headphones I’m spoken to like I’m someone from a different century.

This - maybe it's my age but things are way worse than they were 30 years ago. People just behave as though they are in their own living room. Same as on planes, in cinemas, on buses. Just so inconsiderate and there is literally no excuse. None. Just pure lack of consideration for others.

Yes, perhaps people have become less considerate. Various forms of deodorant, the concept of hankies and tissues were created for a reason. Applying overpowering levels of perfume or aftershave used to be mainly confined to teenagers who weren’t yet to get the balance right.

This thread has reminded me how disgusting some humans are 🤢

It really isn’t just you OP as this thread and many others show

It’s funny how there’s been such a rise in “misophonia” recently. Couldn’t possibly be that people have become less considerate, more “me me me” and more likely to make noise in public without caring about the effect on others.

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."

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You cannot blow your nose to sort allergies.