To think this PDA is inappropriate

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I'm on a train with my 10 year old son and there is a couple across from us. We are in a row across one side of the carriage, facing the couple who are on the opposite side (in the style of the Tube but narrower so about 1.5 metres away). There is one other girl on their row on her phone. Just giving context for how close they are, or far, depending on your perspective.

Anyway, they keep kissing with lots of giggling and sloppy sound effects. They aren't properly snogging but we can hear the long slurpy sounds and the muffled laughter, even when we look away. They are around 30 and are speaking Spanish, so don't know how much English they speak, but my son said to me quietly 'that's disgusting' and I said 'I know' in response. Honestly it was so sloppy and it's one of my least favourite sounds.

The couple continued and I instinctively looked up without thinking and the man had his eyes open and was looking in our direction with a smile on his face, mid slurp. They kissed a few times more and my son sort of winced. Look, I think it's great they are in love and everything, I really do. I'm not a prude. But I think it's just a bit yuck to be creating such a performance of kissing right in front of a child. Am I being very naive here? Is this something that other people would be ok with? When I felt like they were doing to deliberately piss us off I felt really annoyed. If I was on my own I wouldn't care but my son feels uncomfortable and for reason that's making me really peeved!

Is it just me?

If you were concerned for your son why didn’t you just sit elsewhere in the carriage?

Thank you! It was for 50 minutes with some short pauses for conversation then even when she was talking he was slurping and smacking. It was all very moist and if that word gives anyone the ick, it's what i was literally hearing 🤮

There was only room in the bit we were in. The rest of the train was full.

A quiet kiss and handholding would have been fine, sweet even, but slurping and looking at you while doing it? Gross! 🤢

So the only seats in the empty carriage were directly opposite them?

Yes or beside them. We were in a kind of 'corridor' along the train with 4 seats side by side on each wall of the train. I was on one side witb my son and they were directly opposite. The other seats were all in normal train formation and from what I could see were full, and there were certainly no empty seats together so I could sit next to my son.

Yes it felt provocative and not in a sexy way!

Oh gosh that sounds awful!! But yes, it felt very 'urghh'.

You said it was almost empty??

Honestly, if your son was that uncomfortable and it was 50 minutes then you should have got up and moved

He didn't tell THEM he was uncomfortable, and even then I'd say it was on you to move tbh

No the bit we were in was almost empty. Me, my son, the couple and another girl. The rest was pretty much full. It was an open train and not clearly divided by carriages but I was just trying to describe it. Our corridor bit was almost empty which is why I could hear them so clearly but there was nowhere to easily move to.

And at 46. 😁
I'm sure the kid won't be traumatised.

You said the carriage was nearly empty

It's like you keep changing the narrative tbh

You're so worried about your son being uncomfortable but couldn't be arsed to move

Yes I should have tried to find somewhere else to sit. I was hoping they would just get off but I didn't see anywhere to move to without walking up and down a busy train and maybe not finding anywhere. I should have tried harder to find a seat but in all honesty in some situations when i dont k ow what to do I go into freeze mode and I was just hoping they'd leave.

Eeeeeeuuuuwwww….

I couldn’t waste energy fussing over this

Honestly I'm not going to engage with you anymore. I have tried to describe the layout of the train. It was a split level train so had some upstairs and some Downstairs, there were areas within the train but not in the standard format of normal trains. I'm not trying to change the narrative, I was on a train in an area which I called a carriage because it was separate from the rest of the bit of the train we were in, and that area was almost empty, but the rest of the bit of the train that I had access to/could see, was full. I'm not that bored to make all this up. Yes I should have tried harder to move.

This is the weirdest sounding train I've ever heard of 🤷‍♀️

Next time you know, just move

I’m with you on that one. That is vile in front of a child from the couple on the train. Makes me happy that in Dubai you’re not permitted to do any of that in public and they take it quite seriously. The train is not an extension of their bedroom. Weirdos. You would also think they would refrain from that as soon as they saw your little boy.

Vile from them.

♥️

I'm not in the UK so I haven't seen many like this myself. Next time I will.

No it’s not appropriate, but I think some couples are exhibitionist and enjoy getting a reaction. I’m reminded of a couple on a train in Italy years ago who were all over each other, then disappeared to the toilet together, and came back ten minutes later and lit up an obviously post-coital fag!

Ah so now the old "not in the UK" too

Maybe it's just more socially acceptable then and you were being offensive to expect different

How can he smile at you AND be mid-slurp? How big is his mouth? Is he a succubus masquerading as a man?

Hardly. I've lived here for almost a decade.

Corners of mouth upturned, face at an angle to his gf. Can't believe I wrote that!