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To really loathe it when people eat on trains?

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HeadFairy · 28/01/2013 20:56

I'm not talking about long distance ones, or even mid distance. I'm talking about commuter trains where the journey time is no more than an hour from one end of the line to the other.

I'm sitting on the train opposite someone who is literally demolishing a Maccy meal of some sort. The burger is collapsing everywhere. There are bits dropping all over the place. The sound of his chomping is making me feel ill and it absolutely stinks. Someone else in the next row has a flipping kebab. It's 9pm on a Monday! He's not even pissed. The entire carriage now smells terrible.

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HeadFairy · 28/01/2013 20:57

And I'm bloody fasting today (thanks a billion Dr Mosely!) so everyone eating stuff in front of me can just feck off!

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LindyHemming · 28/01/2013 20:58

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Tee2072 · 28/01/2013 20:59

Ask for a chip?

Bilbobagginstummy · 28/01/2013 20:59

Yabu to fast, it makes you grumpy.
I tolerate other people eating on trains because I do it myself.

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HeadFairy · 28/01/2013 20:59

To be fair the woman next to me is being quite civilised with her sandwich and half bottle of wine (what is it with this train and people feeding their faces?) at least that is odourless. She's still chomping though grrrr!

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Tee2072 · 28/01/2013 21:00

Ah. Just seen your second post.

Stop fasting. There is evidence it is very very bad for you.

Also? It makes you cranky. How can that be good?

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HeadFairy · 28/01/2013 21:01

tee I would but he polished them off so quickly I didn't get a chance. He looks fairly well nourished iyswim and he was shoving handfuls in!

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addictedtolatte · 28/01/2013 21:01

Head furry that's me eating the kebab behind you and I am pissed lol

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HeadFairy · 28/01/2013 21:02

Addicted you bitch GrinWink

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Porkster · 28/01/2013 21:02

I agree, it's quite often revolting.

I was stuck next to a woman on a completely packed Eurostar who noisily chomped her way through one of those massive bags of crisps. Chicken flavour. And she did loads of excessive finger sucking too.

I fantasised about bludgeoning her to death.

FlatsInDagenham · 28/01/2013 21:02

Maccy D and kebab do sound pretty offensive. But in general eating on trains is fine, and often necessary (even on ashortishjourney) so YABU.

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HeadFairy · 28/01/2013 21:03

Fasting only makes me grumpy when people eat slimy greasy delicious salty fatty stuff in front of me Grin

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HeadFairy · 28/01/2013 21:06

Urgh, now burger bloke is actually slurping his milkshake I swear he's just consumed about 1000 calories in the space of two stops!

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HazeltheMcWitch · 28/01/2013 21:08

The train may be 1hr, but you don't know about the rest of anyone's day. So - yes, YABU. And the fasting may make it worse for you, but that's your choice.

minibmw2010 · 28/01/2013 21:11

It's 9pm, past most people's dinner time, they're hungry and it's not their fault you are doing a daft diet that's left you hungry !!

TheNebulousBoojum · 28/01/2013 21:31

I work 8-6 several days a week, 8-5 otherwise. I often work through lunch.
I can grab a bite on the train, get home and start dealing with family stuff, then work when they have settled. Without the food I'd be a foul-tempered, intolerant harridan
I am a neat and tidy eater and it works for me.

lovelyladuree · 28/01/2013 21:37

A friend of mine used to be a train cleaner. As soon as I knew what those seat cushions had absorbed and never, ever cleaned or changed, what had been thrown up all over those seat backs and what had been trodden into those carpets, I stopped eating on trains

AwkwardSquad · 28/01/2013 21:38

Could be worse, a man on the train tonight was having a really good dig around in his nostrils. I did wonder if he was searching for a snack...

Chottie · 28/01/2013 21:40

How about eating on buses? I am a magnet for people eating a burger and chips...... The smell is just awful, then they wipe their greasy fingers down the seats.........

TheNebulousBoojum · 28/01/2013 21:42

Wouldn't it make more sense to stop using trains, lovely?
My food touches its container and my mouth, and I take my litter home with me.

Southeastdweller · 28/01/2013 21:46

Oh I hate it as well but only hot food as it stinks the train carriage out. I live in -a shithole a hinterland part of south east London and invariably after 8pm there's always one suit on my carriage on the train coming back from London Bridge who has to eat his pasty. Can't he wait until he goes home?!

MyHeadWasInTheSandNowNot · 28/01/2013 21:52

*lovelyladuree Mon 28-Jan-13 21:37:59
A friend of mine used to be a train cleaner. As soon as I knew what those seat cushions had absorbed and never, ever cleaned or changed, what had been thrown up all over those seat backs and what had been trodden into those carpets, I stopped eating on trains *

Why? Did you used to place your food on the seats/floor before eating it?

BertieBotts · 28/01/2013 21:57

lovely's post is bothering me too. Surely you eat out of the food packaging or if anything off the (hopefully wiped down) table?

LaurieFairyCake · 28/01/2013 21:58

It's equally depressing that we've reached a stage where those poor fuckers are eating their dinner at 9pm on a Monday on a train. Bloody long hours culture.

Every sympathy though, it is gross in a packed carriage to smell other people's food.

lastSplash · 28/01/2013 21:59

YANBU about messy eaters and YANBU about noisy or nasty eaters.

However YABU about all people eating on trains (and to be fasting!)