To pick hair off my clothes on public transport

[Sundaycoffee]

I was sat on the train today and absent-mindedly picked a loose hair off my trousers and dropped it on the floor.
The woman on the aisle seat opposite me said vedy loudly "excuse me do you mind not dropping your hair all over the train carriage?"
It's not like I was sitting there brushing my hair over everyone. Surely if you're travelling on public transport you occasionally accept that you might have to be in the vicinity of a strand of hair off someone??
Or am I being totally disgusting and unreasonable?

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And if you moved a certain way it might fall onto the floor itself anyway. brushing your hair would be disgusting but personally I have a lot of hair and it falls all over the place, not much you can do about that.

YANBU. She was weird.

To remove 1 single hair? How strange. If the hair had just fallen directly from OP's head to the floor would that also have been disgusting? Is it the fact that it had a little stay on their clothes first that makes it so? Or that she touched it with her fingers? If she had picked it off her clothes and put it in a Tesco Bag for Life (or scalp scabs apparently) would that have been grim or better? Should she have left it on her clothes all day or could she remove it in the privacy of, say, a toilet cubicle and put it in a bin there?

As someone with a massive, massive phobia of other people’s stray hairs - i think she was wildly overreacting.

Unless you dropped it so close it went onto her shoe or or blew onto her clothes or something, in that case she would have every right to go mental at you 🤢

I’ve been told off about this! It would bother me far more to see a hair stuck to someone than to see someone drop a hair to the floor!

Wow I currently have postpartum hair loss so shedding like a Labrador, my hair would be all over the train! You can’t stop hair falling out, picking it off you or just falling naturally on to the train. I also pick hairs off me on trains it’s just a natural reflux lol She’s ridiculous

From somebody picking a single hair off their clothes that might not even have been theirs?? This is really over the top.

No. Don't reaffirm poor behaviour.

The people saying that it’s “disgusting” and they would feel physically sick must have issues. I imagine they never go to the hairdresser, think of the hairs they’d see there! 🤷🏻‍♀️😱

It is completely reasonable to pick a hair off your clothes in public. Honestly. How some people make it through the day I don’t know.

I have a thing about hair. It really, really freaks me out especially when it's not attached to somebody's body. I find it as disgusting as other people might find spiders. I'd not have been happy thinking about a loose strand of hair on the floor or the seat. And yes, I know, you csnt avoid them and it really used to cause me problems though I'm grtting better with it. People brushing their hair in front of me freaks me out unless it's family.

Having said that if I'd had found a hair on my trousers I'd have dusted it off as well though if there was a bin I'd have binned it. It might not have been your hair even. So I can understand she found it off putting but I don't think she should have told you off.

Is this really a genuine post? Oh my word! Sitting by the way not sat.