AIBU to paint my nails on the train?

[skyofdiamonds]

No back story and a quick one.

I'm going on a long ish train journey tomorrow for a weekend away with OH.

I can't paint my nails as I have work tomorrow and nail varnish is strictly forbidden at work.

I am walking straight from work to the train station, in order to catch the earliest train to where we are going.

I want sexy, red nails for our weekend but the only opportunity will be the train journey!

Is it horrible, smelly and socially unacceptable to paint them on a train?

I'm thinking yes...

Also, I could do it in our hotel. Should have thought of that before!

chipthefish I'd be interested and amused to watch you putting on your falsies on the train Only if you weren't all elbows and self-absorbed obliviousness in someone else's personal space, though!

Would you still paint your nails in a train now, though, after hearing what so many people are saying about their migraines and asthma?

When I get on a train in my area I normally sit at a table by myself. I wouldn't do my nails or attempt to put lashes on if I was sitting right next to people.

I have asthma and nail varnish fumes don't bother me, if I knew there was somebody close by that it did cause harm to then obviously I wouldn't do it.

50BalesofHay The feeling is mutual. I don't think anybody could accuse you of having impeccable manners after a comment like that.

That's just it though, you can't know for sure. You can't scan the carriage and think, none of them look like migraine sufferers to me! And whip out the OPI You just have to refrain due to the possibility. I think, anyway.

I have been know to touch up my make up on trains though. Not the full works though - wouldn't leave the house bare faced! has a problem I think in that case, if there's space and you're not encroaching on anyone and what you're using doesn't have an intense smell, it's ok. It's a bit like sketching, but on your face....

ChiptheFish whatever still bad manners though. It's not private space. It's public. Horrible, vile manners, but I do accept that you don't know any better.

Chipthefish .... How on earth would you have any idea if it was going to cause harm to someone? Are you going to ask? Or are you going to open the bottle and wait for someone to say something?

OrangeLily The only time I have ever painted my nails on a train has been when I have been sitting at a 4 seat table by myself.

It is not a normal occurrence for somebody to be severely affected after a nail varnish bottle has been opened 10 feet away. I have yet to meet somebody who is unable to wear nail varnish because it gives them migraines or respiratory problems.

Many members of my family including myself have asthma and nail varnish presents no problems.

If there was somebody that has such a severe reaction to an everyday item they can't reasonably expect that people would automatically think of that when they paint their nails for all of 60 seconds. However any reasonable person would stop doing something that was offending others, if asked.

What about all the people who eat on trains? How do you know that when you are sitting eating a packet of nuts that the person sitting next to you doesn't have a severe nut allergy? You don't. And you wouldn't refrain from eating nuts just in case.

That's different though. You wouldn't be shoving the nuts in the other passenger's mouth. But a migraine sufferer doesn't have any way to effectively stop the smell of nail varnish from being inhaled.

Just because your family aren't effected doesn't mean no one else is - have another read through the thread.

YABU - it stinks, don't do it.

There should be a rule book for trains, there really should. Eating egg sandwiches, putting on your makeup with your flicky flacky brush, watching a film on your tablet at top volume, sticking your feet up on the opposite seat, spraying bog-awful perfume around the place, painting your talons so you can have 'sexy red nails' (seriously?? sexy nails???) are just a few that should be included.

You're in a train carriage with other people, not in your own personal bubble - a bit of consideration, please!

Chipthefish - fancy a meet-up then, because I am severely allergic to the stuff in nail varnish and cannot wear it or be near it being applied because it makes my asthma flare really badly. Am the same with aerosols and perfume too.

But please promise not to paint your nails right before we meet

Your personal experience of asthma and asthmatics within a very small group is hardly representative of society in general. I know loads of people who are adversely affected by nail varnish and aerosols, etc. Saying you don't know anyone like that and thereby inferring that anyone who is that way doesn't exist or is a liar, etc., etc., is the silliest defence in the world!

The point is, the smell is fucking awful. It's worse than farting, IMHO. You say people with strong reactions to stuff can't expect others to modify what they do, but people have a right to not be made ill over your right to do something which is totally unnecessary and which is known to potentially make others ill.

If you wouldn't sit farting eggy guffs in a train then why is it acceptable to impose the vile stink of nail varnish on others? However you look at it, it's simply selfish and thoughtless.

Meant to add, I would never eat nuts on public transport because I am know that people with severe anaphylaxis can be made very ill just from being in proximity to nuts.

It's amazingly easy to modify your behaviour in public to be considerate to others, you know.

It wouldn't bother me. On the other hand, DH, who is epileptic, would probably have a seizure. He is triggered by strong smells.

Seizures are dangerous - especially in confined spaces where there's plenty of sharp and hard things on which to knock your head.

I would wait until you get to the hotel.

I didn't know that about epilepsy. I bet most people don't.