To want to shout 'It is blatantly obvious you're having an affair' to the couple opposite me on the train

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And if I've figured it out within 20 minutes of sitting opposite you on a train, with all the furtive hand touching and stolen glances, your work colleagues will almost certainly know you're carrying on. Get better at being discrete or keep it in your pants.

On the plus side, I forgot to bring my book with me and watching this play out is terrific entertainment.

Why do you care ?? And they could be in throws of a new relationship ! Why not ask them if your so bothered ! YABU

Because I'm on a train, bored and need something to occupy me. The furtiveness is a dead giveaway as is his wedding ring.

DP and I started a relationship whilst we were working together. It wasn't a secret but we weren't affectionate with each other in front of colleagues unless it was down the pub on a Friday night

Seems a massive jump to screaming affair at them I think your imagination may be running away with you..

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They could be newlyweds ? Also when me and dh go places without our children we act like a pair of love struck teenagers . We have been together 19 years but when alone we r like kids and can't keep our hands off each other . We maybe have a day out to ourselves once every couple of years so maybe to others it looks like we are having an affair ???

I see AIBU is as pleasant as ever this morning.

FWIW OP, I would be scandalised and entertained too

But why assume a couple of ransoms having a flirt are having an affair?

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Oh fgs, lighten up everyone! The OP is bored on a train. If you don't care, don't join the thread just to be snippy.

I know its AIBU, but jeez...

Discreet

Discrete means the opposite

I would find highly entertaining too!

He's wearing a wedding ring and she isn't? Well that hardly sounds like a new couple or anything does it as people are suggesting?

Oh, and 'throes' to the second poster
I'm annoying myself now.

Even if I wanted to ignore it (which I don't cos I'm a nosey bastard) it would be very difficult considering it is being played out less than a metre opposite me.

This is going beyond flirting!

Ok ok sorry OP I was having a moment. What is 'beyond flirting'?!

I think we might be on the same train!!

I saw a couple on a Friday afternoon train to a seaside destination, flirty and with hands all over each other, both with white lines/dents where wedding rings had been removed

To be fair, OP didn't Kenton the wedding ring in the first post.

*mention - no idea what Kenton means!

How do you know they work in the same office. It might be a remake of brief encounter.(if you are too young to remember Trevor Howard google the film)

Well I suppose it depends on your definition of flirting is I guess. They're not humping on the table...yet, but there's a lot of physical contact, interspersed with boring work chat. Hands resting on each other's thighs etc, leaning on arm, that sort of thing.

Or perhaps they are actually a long term married couple who are pepping up their marriage with a bit of role playing, as bored adulterous office workers.

I would be intrigued as well, how long is the journey?

Two hours in, I've got 50 minutes left before my stop.

oh dear - it seems that if you don't put LIGHTHEARTED in neon lights on top of a post then you're done.

Personally I'd be fascinated and I'm relying on you to find out a whole lot more - follow them if you have to. You weren't doing anything important today, were you?

I once missed my stop listening to a woman on the phone about her friend calling off her wedding. I'm with you OP - enjoy the entertainment