To hate couples snogging on public transport

[swanandduck]

It makes my toes curl when some couple stand on the bus or tube gazing into each other's eyes, kissing, pecking, stroking etc. Surely there's an appropriate time and place. Some couples are only short of conceiving their PFB right there and then in front of commuters and school kids and....

GET A ROOM

We were all at it once.

Weren't you?

No, never on public transport. Bit of hand holding maybe, but that was it.

Pore ol you.

It was great.

Oh, get a room, Hully. .

I would now, no one wants to see old people groping away, but yoof Are Allowed.

I quite like seeing young couples kissing and being affectionate in public.

I am not a perv but I find it reassuring to know that young, carefree, all-the-future-ahead-of-you love still exists in a pretty grotty world.

On the other hand I find older people kissing etc really nasty.

I am in my early 40s and wouldn't hold dp's hand on a train as I think it's embarrasingly yuck. Ditto kissing - uuuuugh!

I think I am turning into my grandfather.

Yeah, but you're all newly wed, newly knocked up and besotted, you're allowed too.

There's a couple who I used to get the tube at the same time at every morning for work and urrg it would turn your stomach. SLURP SLURP SLURRRP, stroke stroke.. gaze lovingly.. I don't know why I found it so annoying but oh I did.

I suppose if they're entwined, they're taking up a bit less space.

It only bothered me when DS piped up in very piercingly clear tones "Oh yuck Mum - why on earth do they want to do that? Grooooosssss".

If you're stuck with this regularly, you can borrow him and see if he embarrasses them into stopping.

I don't mind it on the street but for some reason, on public transport it is really annoying. It's like they want an audience for how passionately in love and physically attracted to each other they are.

I remember a radio presenter once wondering why it is usually the most unattractive couple on the bus that do this.

Sorry Hully .

I don't mind it to an extent but I can't stand it when a line is crossed . . . groping someone's arse at the bus stop just isn't on. Kissing/holding hands is fine but trying to get your hands into someone's bra on the no 12 bus is just vile.

Is now the time to admit to full sex on the London-Reading train in 1985?

am in my early 40s and wouldn't hold dp's hand on a train as I think it's embarrasingly yuck.

Oh dear. We do this all the time (holding hands I mean, not snogging). I'm 48 and she's 40. I must remember to pass the sick bags around next time.

I think holding hands is nice, just not slurping all over each other.

YANBU I don't like public displays of enthusiastic tonsil tennis either.... does this make us snogophobic?

Lol Oops. I'm not saying that I didn't indulge in that kind of behaviour in my youth but no one wants to see me doing that kind of thing in public now . . .

I went to the cinema a few months ago and there was a couple humping away. Jeeeez.

Hand holding: ok
Hugging: OK
Groping: not OK
Snogging with slurpy noises: not OK

Hello,

I like it when i see people kissing as well, although there is a big difference between a little smooch and a full on "get a room". It makes me smile to think people are happy and have found love

xx

Quite soon after I got engaged, me and H2b were on the bus, and were a bit kissy and snuggly and looking at my ring (generally being an annoying lovey dovey couple) and the old man sitting behind us spoke to us as we were getting of the bus, saying that he though it was lovely to see a young couple so in love and Planning their future, so some people like it!

I'm with you swanandduck!
I don't mind the odd kiss, hug or hand-holding but I dislike seeing couples slobbering over each other anywhere in public.
Must be my dour presbyterian heritage!!

YANBU!

I certainly have no desire to bear witness to the slobbering affections of others. A cuddle, a wee kiss... all nice and fine, but to hear the swapping of spittle at close range is stomach turning.

I want to nudge them and say 'I'm very happy for both of you that your love is so true, but can you take it somewhere where I don't have to join in please?'

I find it very cringey. Holding hands or putting arms around each other is fine. However, while people gazing passionately and deeply into each others eyes looks fine on TV because it's usually good looking people with lovely music in the background, it just looks stupid On the 36a with Joe and Josephine not paricularly attractive looking. As for teasing each other with snatchy kisses, I agree, just get a room.

Similar story butternut - just after DH and I got married (centuries ago) we were arriving at work (same institution, different departments) and we kissed goodbye (briefly I might add) at the main door. A passing church minister told us how nice he it was to see!