Do you change your clothes when you get home after being on the tube or other public transport?

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I never used to need to change clothes to sit on my sofa or whatever until I moved to London years ago. The tube is filthy! Now, it has become automatic habit to me to change into 'house' clothes when I get home - I don't live in London anymore but another large city where I'm on equally grotty public transport to get around. I really don't think this would have become habit if I was going from my home to my own car on a daily basis, instead of public transport.

Am I normal or a weirdo?

Why on earth wouldn't you get changed.

Quite.

I would obviously get changed if I sat in something wet

do You have toddlers and babies and are you getting them fully changed/washed as soon as you all get in as well as yourself, regardless of hunger etc? I’m genuinely curious about how this works. I get it if you’re only having to sort yourself out.

I don't shower, I just get changed. It literally takes less than 5 minutes . If DD couldn't entertain herself for that long she just chattered at me in the same room while I did it. When she got older she'd get changed too at the same time from school uniform. Sometimes still chattering at me.

Then just get on with things like everyone does. I shower at night or in the morning before getting dressed for work. It's not exactly rocket science.

Right, so not showering, yes I get that so there’s no need for sarky “rocket science” remarks. I was asking about showering. When she was a toddler did you get her changed immediately too?

I get changed usually within the first 10 minutes of getting home. It's nothing to do with being dirty though, I just want to be comfy. And I don't find jeans (my usual outside attire) comfortable for housework, or lounging about.

What is putting different clothes on wasting? 99% of the time the stuff I take off is clean and is hung to wear again. PJs get worn for three or four days, which is as long as I'd wear them anyway. And it literally takes me five minutes or less to change.

Whoever said ‘a bit of dirt never hurt anyone’ would really benefit from reading up on the mechanisms of infectious diseases.

Yea I don’t shower either, I just change in to something that isn’t a work wear ie a suit or tailored dress. Do people really come home from work and spend all evening sitting in a suit. I find that strange and formal for your own house 🤣

Also born and bred Londoner. I find it’s cleaned up a bit lately but I do go on the tube less these days. Definitely fewer cars. But I still get changed because it’s not about the dirt for me, its the comfort.

it’s asbestos on the tube by the way so changing clothes is a good idea anyway tbh. I’ll get called a liar as I do everytime I mention this but TFL have a FOI on their asbestos levels.

It’s rare that I wear a suit to work but I do change out of formal stuff so it doesn’t get crumpled. It’s still comfortable though, and if supper is ready when I get through the door I might not get changed until later

What difference does your colour mean to this question?

All I have to say is I’m black and the immediate answer to this question is yes. The majority of black people have house clothes so if you know then you know

Do they?

Yes!

A lot of people within the Asian community do so too. It’s just a culture thing. You don’t sit on your bed wearing outside clothes. Once you get inside you change into house clothes etc

No and I use public transport to and from work every day.

I do the same and I'm white. I didn't know race came into it.

Not saying it doesn't. Just didn't know it was a thing.

I never said white people don’t do anything of the sort. Someone asked what my colour has to do with it and I said I’m black so it’s an automatic yes that I change my clothes once I’m home.

Some white people do the same, some white people don’t. Majority of black people do hence my comment🤷‍♀️ it’s not really that deep

Do you make your kids change if you have taken them on public transport? All queueing for the shower when you get home?

I asked this, but no one answered

Not everyone wears formal clothes for work.

I know you didn't. I didn't realise that there was a race element. That's all I'm saying.

Even if they do, the fact that you might not change immediately you get in doesn’t mean you then spend the entire evening in your formal stuff. You might just get changed a bit later because you’re not worried about getting work germs on your kitchen chair.

I sometimes even leave my shoes on for a while. 🤯

I change when I get home to get out of my work clothes regardless of public transport or not (unless I'm in jeans). It's also more comfortable sat on the sofa in jeans than a skirt and tights, which the cat would wreck the moment he sat on me.