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To be enraged by teenage PDA?

45 replies

JuniorMumber · 09/09/2014 17:16

Just got stuck behind two youths in the queue Sports Direct - overtly tonguing each other and rubbing themselves up against each other for the duration of the wait. I felt distinctly uncomfortable witnessing such intimacy between two strangers at close range - like some kind of perve or reticent third member of a ménage a trois. I find it pretty revolting if I'm honest. I don't see the need for it and find it disrespectful, especially if you are trapped next to it in a queue or, say, on a train. Am I just a miserable and embittered (potentially jealous) person - or is it indeed, rude? Or perhaps I'm just afflicted with awkward Britishness. I noted they weren't British, so maybe we are just more uptight over here.

OP posts:
GoringBit · 09/09/2014 20:09

Happy Public Displays of Affection. Sometimes aww sometimes eww

GoringBit · 09/09/2014 20:10

Fubsy it was toe- curling. There was also much thigh-grippage.

HappyAgainOneDay · 09/09/2014 20:14

Ah. thank you, Goring. There was a time (not so long ago in my eyes) when it was infra dig to take part in PDAs. It was looked down on so we turned our eyes away. I still don't like to see it when it's ....erm....intense so I do glare at their backs.

SailorEverRose · 09/09/2014 20:17

I don't mind PDA, but if it's OTT then it's like serious get a room.

I was walking behind a couple holding hands, suddenly they stopped dead to start kissing and I almost walked into the back of them. That pissed me off.

F0ssil · 09/09/2014 20:19

yanbu.

"get a room"

Fubsy · 09/09/2014 21:00

The young lafs in particular - don't they ever... Umm... Have an accident?

????????

Fubsy · 09/09/2014 21:01

That's lads! And MN doesn't like my puking emojis.

MammaTJ · 09/09/2014 21:29

Shame there wasn't a handy bucket of cold water around. They could have probably done with an enforced ice bucket challenge! Grin

Lally112 · 09/09/2014 21:40

oh my god! were none of you ever teenagers??? were you all morn middle aged and moaning? When dh and I were teenagers, snogging the face off each other was pretty much all we did to pass the time. Let them have their fun before life kicks them in the arse.

WallyBantersJunkBox · 09/09/2014 21:59

I think I am prudish but for me when you hear the sucky spittle noise of an airlock between their tongues I feel quite bilious.

And snog selfies....bleurgh.

GoringBit · 09/09/2014 22:01

Snog selfies? They're an actual thing?

WallyBantersJunkBox · 09/09/2014 22:06

Next shopping trip keep one of these in your handbag, and pull it out for some me time in the queue.

They'll stop sucking face and move away quite rapidly.

To be enraged by teenage PDA?
Grokette · 09/09/2014 22:29

Totally unnecessary and attention-seeking behaviour. A nice big bored yawn is probably the best response.

And I don't know if it's an age thing; we took the DC to the zoo a while ago, in the middle of school holidays in the middle of the day, and there were quite a few couples, old and young, gyrating all over one another. So unpleasant.

squoosh · 09/09/2014 22:30

Animals or human?

squoosh · 09/09/2014 22:31

Chimps are always at it.

Vacillating · 09/09/2014 22:38

The mandrill was doing a PDA all by himself when I went.

As for teens makes me nostalgic - I do remember an adult telling me I was anti social whilst PDAing with a boy. Like I cared. Can't imagine I will ever feel that horny again- shame or thank god?! Not sure. Not a problem the mandrill had that is for sure

Greyhound · 09/09/2014 22:49

I am ashamed to say that, as a student, I once had a very quick kiss with my then boyfriend.

Suddenly, this strange man in a grubby anorak stood up and shouted "Jesus, you'll be having a shit in here next, you dirty pigs!!!"

MORTIFIED and freaked out

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 09/09/2014 23:57

The very worst I've seen was between a scratter of less than 20 (trakkies tucked into socks, pattern shaved head, 3 inches of underpants showing) and a woman twice his age and weight witheir hands down each other's kecks.. Her variegated offspring gambolled about while shouting "Mam! Mam! Gess some sweetiz!".

Then the checkout queue moved so they had to break it off.

BiscuitMillionaire · 10/09/2014 00:03

Disgrace Grin Grin Grin

QueenTilly · 10/09/2014 00:06

Kissing teenagers are like kittens to me- they brighten my day with cuteness.

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