To think that the woman next to me on the train is judging me...

[chocolatesaltyballs22]

....for eating my dinner! (Leon chicken satay box, not very stinky). She keeps side-eyeing me every time I take a mouthful. Am also a tweny by it tipsy after post off-site drinks. It's been a looooong day ( up v early for train to London then full day of meetings).
She's going to be even more enraged when I get the mince pie dessert out in a minute!

They say that the best way to cure a fear is to face it, and maybe the same is true of being annoyed by small insignificant things? So by eating on the train, you're actually helping to heal people.

Meh - she probably just finds you smelly, noisy, drunk, odd in that you're laughing out loud, obsessed with your phone and not so discreetly looking at her each time you type an update about 50:Year Old Woman on Train

I would literally starve if I never ate on a train for a London trip

You really would not literally starve

So presumably, these people who are so horrified and psychologically traumatised by a stranger eating on a train never, ever eat out anywhere? They never go to cafes, restaurants, never have picnics in the park, never go on planes etc because that would surely mean being absolutely disgusted by the sight of strangers eating in their presence or having to smell other people's food choices? Must be a very restrictive life style.........

Hot food in the train is inconsiderate unless you're in the dining car. If it was next to me, you would not have been looked at. You would have been spoken to.

I'd probably just accidentally trip and tip your dinner all over you.
Then one of you would be, or behaving exactly as, the Train Drunk you affect to so despise, @bmbonanza.
Handy hint - those who have RTFT know it's not the OP.

London to Leeds? You're entitled to a mince pie.

Having once sat next to a woman eating a yoghurt which she proceeded to spill all over my jacket I can understand your fellow passengers concern 🙄

Guffaws at hard as nails mom over there....

What, the one who would have 'spoken to me?' Course you would love.

"Looks like you haven't read the thread!" yep I have - I can see she is quickly retracting the OP which says she was tipsy.....

I definitely would not be calm if I had someone like that next to me on a train trip.....

Spoken to? What would you say? It's none of your business if people eat on a train.
Laughing about people saying OP was drunk, she has two drinks.

Tipsy from a couple of drinks is not the same as drunk. Unless you're one of those who never so much as sniffs the sherry cork.

G'wan E17 tell us what you would have said....

If you react angrily to everyone on a British train after 5pm who's had a drink or two, your train journeys must be extremely stressful! That's a whole lot of glaring and accidentally tripping up.

@bmbonanza Purposely knocking someone's food all over them is technically "assault" and that kind of behaviour makes you appear rude, offensive and frankly, a tad unhinged. Thats far worse behaviour than the OP who was minding her own business eating.

"Looks like you haven't read the thread!" yep I have - I can see she is quickly retracting the OP which says she was tipsy.....

But failed to see that she confirmed that merely 2 drinks had been taken, at a compulsory out-of-hours works event, hence the later need for eating on the run before arriving home at too-late o'clock?

Eating, btw, which would have quickly helped absorb the 2 drinks, at the rate of 1 unit per hour, meaning that she was barely tipsy when boarding the train, & near sober at some point during the journey?

yeah, I too can nitpick with the best of 'em @bmbonanza

Awwww, loving all the supporters 😘😘😘

E17Stowmum You must hear the words ‘fuck off’ a lot in your life. Your post made you sound like a jumped up arse of the highest order.

The smell of peanuts makes my husband sick (Not allergic) so he'd be very uncomfortable if it was him next to you.
Same goes for curry.
YABU to not realise you're eating something antisocial in an enclosed space

I really want a Leon chicken satay now. Gorgeous! I am glad you enjoyed it

you would not have been looked at. You would have been spoken to.

Hahahahaa, how frightening 😂

expatinspain

when the only way you find to reply to a poster is swearing at them, it doesn't make you come in a very good light

@Adenosine

Next time, just sneeze on the stinky and rude person. Unless you can snap and fart, which would be even better, but even the rudest people tend to be marginally annoyed about sneeze on their stinky food. It's natural, no one can complain about a sneeze (and fart)