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Original poster

to think this is a little anti-social

53 replies

watermargin · 10/05/2012 16:50

I get the train to work every morning, and it is usually very busy. This morning, a woman sat next to me and started to eat a sandwich, which smelt unpleasant (an egg sandwich) and then opened a packet of beef & onion crisps. I hate those crisps anyway which may explain my reaction! As anyone who travels on trains knows you don't get a lot of room so I was forced to sit with an unpleasant smell for a while.

She also broke wind on a number of occasions, and the smell was ghastly, like hot drains.

AIBU to think this is anti social and inconsiderate?

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knowitallstrikesagain · 10/05/2012 18:33

YANBU. A bit inconsiderate. But not that usual, surely, as most people know better than to eat stinky food on a train and most people would either go fart in the loo or wait until they got off.

It is not the farting that is the problem, but the confined space and the lack of consideration that others might not find the smell as alluring as you do.

I would have been put out, but also aware that what she was doing was legal and completely within her rights so would have seethed inwardly and then posted on here. Oh, wait...

AmberLeaf · 10/05/2012 18:44

She farted audibly twice and muttered 'sorry' the first time

Really?

Whoever said it to stranded about holding in farts....you cant hold in farts! they seep out anyway! especially if they are those hot toxic ones!

OP YABU.

FreudianSlipper · 10/05/2012 18:50

i have never known anyone to own up and apologise for farting on a train

i admire her honesty and bravery

5318008 · 10/05/2012 18:54

did she lift one buttock, leaning over to do so? and shake it out of her trouser bottom comedy-stylee?

no?

just me then Grin

5318008 · 10/05/2012 18:54

or ask you to ''pull her finger'' ?

AmberLeaf · 10/05/2012 18:56

Im struggling to believe she actually did it out loud and owned up to it.

DustyDen · 10/05/2012 18:58

I hate eating sandwiches on the train, but as a vegetarian my only option is egg. (Stupid rubbish egg sandwiches...)

Ambrosius · 10/05/2012 19:07

I have very rarely had an issue holding a fart in!

issimma · 10/05/2012 19:08

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DialMforMummy · 10/05/2012 19:31

This thread had me pmsl. Please stop people, just had a cs and laughing hurts! Grin

misslinnet · 10/05/2012 19:35

It's inconsiderate to eat smelly food on a train. The smell of egg sandwiches usually makes me feel very sick.

There's plenty of non-smelly food to choose from.

She may not have been able to help the breaking wind though.

fuckbucket · 10/05/2012 19:38

No way could I hold in a fart for more than a minute, and standing up to move to the loo to let it out would be futile, the only way I can keep them in is sat down with crossed buttocks.

Helltotheno · 10/05/2012 19:59

Anyone who can't hold in a warmie mustn't be doing their kegels... I find the kegels cover the farting orifice quite nicely thanks Grin

See that's why I carry a scarf lightly misted in my usual perfume on the train so I can conspicuously bury my nose in it when someone drops one or eats some unspeakable monstrosity. Better than hurling any road..

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watermargin · 10/05/2012 20:01

She bent over to pick up some change when the first fart happened, I could have forgiven that but the smell mixed in with eggy sandwiches was foul and then she kept farting. Sorry but while anyone can squeak one out once by mistake you don't sit there farting happily on a crowded train do you???

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AmberLeaf · 10/05/2012 20:17

Nowt wrong with my Kegels! but when there is bum air ready to exit at a force...then sometimes theres not much you can do to hold it in!

ShellyBobbs · 10/05/2012 20:21

OMG, I actually have tears running down my face, firstly from the description of the smell of the fart, 'hot', and secondly from the absolute disgust from the OP. It is one of the funniest things I have read in ages, I would have been trying not to laugh if I was sat next to her.

What did it sound like? Was it a whistler?

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watermargin · 10/05/2012 20:24

More like the noise you get when you release air from your cheeks (on your face!) quickly!

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watermargin · 10/05/2012 20:24

And, it WAS hot! Like walking past a sewer on a baking hot day - horrible!

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5318008 · 10/05/2012 20:25

coo, flappy AND smelly

not often you get both Grin

RuleBritannia · 10/05/2012 20:26

It is bad manners to eat in public places that are not restaurants, cafes or bars. Eating in the street, on a bus or on a train just shows how badly you were brought up.

ShellyBobbs · 10/05/2012 20:31

Haha, I can imagine it, one of those hot stingy smells, raw........Grin

wellthatsdoneit · 10/05/2012 20:32

I've just had to release air from my cheeks (on my face!) quickly in order to really see what kind of whoopsie it was you're talking about. In my experience, those aren't the kind that are 'hot' and overly pungent. As someone said up thread, it's the long slow silent ones that lead to the sewer-on-a-hot-day effect.

Are you sure you're telling us the truth o.p? ARE YOU??

Coconutty · 10/05/2012 20:34

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watermargin · 10/05/2012 20:35

Maybe she farted, and then split seconds later did a silent sewer on a hot day (to be furthermore referred to as SSOAHD) combining smell AND parp.

Seriously, I'm not sure, but the smell wasn't nice!

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IAmBooyhoo · 10/05/2012 20:41

you cant hold what's not in your hands Wink