To offer a stranger on the train a tissue?

[CarbyDiem]

It’s either that or stabbing him through the brain with a fork.

Sniff Sniff Sniff Sniff Sniff Sniff Sniff Sniff Sniff

"Perhaps I am being SNIFFIST mwah haha."

I think you are. The person on the phone may have had an allergy and still has to come to work. They may have a sinus problem or whatever.

You are right about cocaine though. I believed someone's "hay fever" for a while until the penny dropped.

I phoned BT for their Black Friday deal broadband and the man on the end of the phone was sniffing and sniffing . I stopped the transaction and rang another time to get someone who didn't sniff. Perhaps I am being SNIFFIST mwah haha

This really made me laugh.

The proportion of people who really can't help it (sinusitis) compared with how many are too lazy to get a tissue is very small IMO.

I can't stand it. My children had a friend who constantly sniffed, she was a lovely girl but no-one ever told her not to do it, so she sniffed about every 30 seconds when she was round here. Very irritating.

Well, if you have access to a fork it means you are eating... and you should not be doing that on a train.

Annoyingly not all trains have toilets.

I have found my people! I have done this before, my train was Cardiff to Leeds and that is far too long a journey to listen to sniffling.

It was someone with headphones in so I reached across to offer a tissue. They did get off the train st the next stop, and I will never know if that was there stop or if they were just trying to avoid the crazy tisssue woman.

It still seemed like a better option than stabbing though!

Oh God I was sitting next to a sniffer/ cougher/ splutterer on the train yesterday. It was making me want to vomit because it sounded like he was about to spit out a load of phlegm! I turned away and kept putting my hand over my face, I've just got over a horrible illness and can't bear the thought of being ill again.

Offer a tissue.

AnUtterIdiot I don't sniff. Or very rarely. My mum taught me it was rude, and would hand me a hanky if I sniffed. I try not to sniff. I wipe my nose if it runs, blow it if it needs it but I don't sniff as it's gross and is putting all that yuk back up your nose again! One of my children used to sniff a lot and I've trained her out of it.

The child I knew who sniffed, the mum just never told her not to sniff and so it became habitual.

It's not inevitable to sniff, you can choose to do it, like you can choose whether to fart audibly in public, the vast majority of the time it is in your control (and for a few ill people it is not).

I was also taught never to eat in public, but that's whole other story and not something most people abide by now in the era of fast food and take-away food everywhere!