To think 'loved up' couples should consider single people like myself and stop canoodling in public every summer?

[NoGlassSlipper]

It's like as soon as the weather gets warm, everyone starts acting like it's mating season. I am fed up of seeing couples so eager to get at it they can't keep their hands to themselves. Fed up of walking down the highstreet and having to walk around couples kissig, or walking at 'mate pace' - really slowly holding and caressing hands.

The bus stop is always full of them every summer - it's like "look the bus is coming, grab my bum quick"

Parks are full of them rolling around on the grass under trees. It's a real picnic spoiler even without DC's.

Saw a couple walking at mate pace yesterday in the park. I had to hold back the urge to barge abruptly between their clasped-for-life hands.

They have no consideration for those who are single and partnerless or heartbroken.

I'm single and want the right not be confronted by hand and bum squeezing, lipsucking couples in heat.

I am not jealous. Just reasonably annoyed.

Much better to see loving than hating.

YABU, I was doing this last winter. If it's any consolation, it didn't last. The winter or the romance, looking forward to doing it again soon.

Wow I'm feeling a real woodstock vibe here...

I agree with Xenia. Public snipping is horrid, especially when the children are sloping alongside looking depressed because mum and dad are at it again. Yuk.

OP, indulge in some self love at the bus stop. Play them at their own game.

Couples do it all year round.
It's just that now that it's summer, we're seeing more people out and about generally.
I'm enjoying being out and seeing people around here that I didn't even know existed in the winter months.
Now they're having tea on their balconies, out fixing the car, chatting in the park, painting their exteriors,
People are just out.
For some reason you're noticing the happy couples in particular.

SausageRocket

ROFL sausagerocket

Have you never felt an irresistible urge to lip lock your current beau at every opportunity?

I wouldn't do it now (being well past the first flush of luuurve with my DH) but I can remember instances of uncontrollable lust while waiting for the little green man at pelican crossings... Aahh, those were the days...

Oh god I HATE that. It's done for the benefit of passers-by. "Oh look at us" imo it's attention seeking. Are you telling me that they are physically unable to wait until they get home / get to the car to stick their tongues down each others throats and their fingers up each others arses? I think not.

erm. That was an unfortunate x-post with shellingpeas because it reads as a response to her post, when in fact it was just a general comment on the thread

Hecates, sorry but sometimes you are sooo in love that passers by don't exist. You must remember this?

Not something I have a problem with in general.

BUT I could really have done without the canoodling couple laid on the hill further up from us at the park today. T'was not a pretty sight that confronted us when my friend and I turned round to see where the kids were running to. She really should wear a longer skirt if she's going to lay down up hill

well yes, but I was 15!! It can be excused in teenagers. They know no better

lol when you are in love again you are 15 again even at 40huuum.

God I'm feeling optimistic tonight.

Remember that people who do this are desperately insecure and desperate to demonstrate that they are a) heterosexual (gay couples do it as a different sort of political statement) and b) Not A Virgin.

Ways to annoy them include travelling with a pack of 8 year olds who can be relied on to go 'Eurgh, yuck, they are kissing! Eww! Oi, mister, are you going to put tadpoles in her tummy and make her have a baby? Can we watch?' Or stare at them intensely, breathe noisily through your mouth and slobber. Or whip out your mobile and have a very loud conversation about bowel movements and rectal disorders.

SGB sorry you would have to try harder to put me off my last failed love.

Ok we wern't that soppy but a cuddle and a kiss to keep warm in the street was lovely.

abouteve I don't want to be in love at 40 like I was at 15.

It was a pain in the neck.

Having sex uphill in the park after dark was really difficult and in the daytime the tree cover on the fields was poor.

I want to (if I need to) fall in love at 40 without the outdoors action.

SGB what do you think we should do about people who make us feel inadequate on the sexual activity front on the internet..?

Top 5 most irritating places:

1. Using the beach as an excuse to virtually simulate sex by getting astride person and caressing not just rubbing suncream into each others body and nether regions.

1. Parked Icecream Vans outside parks: Why do they have to joint lick the one lolly?

3: All street side restaurants and bars. I swear, they always deliberately go outside so everyone can see them straw-sharing and giggling

1. The parks. Enough said

1. Bus and train stations. The most quick bum grabbing happens there.

I'm not bitter, frustrated or anything at all, just think they should remember not everyone wants a reenactment of Love Story and they should consider others feelings.

Given an opportunity to romp around in the park tomorrow, I would of course refuse and think of lonely others.

Lovelytinofspam Thanks I feel cheered to consider benefits of rain!

What was that SausageRocket?

YABU, I know it can be a bit ick when people really can't keep their hands off each other, but this is about your sensitivy, not their behaviour I think. they're not (I assume) doing it to rub it in, they're just enjoying being together.

I dearly want a child, been ttc a year now, it causes me pain every time I see a mother and child, or a pregnant lady, but I don't think they should just stay behind closed doors so that I won't get upset.

I think when you are at that stupidly in love/lust stage you entirely lose all concept of everyone around you.

Which will probably explain why last summer a normally demure Hatesponge was to be found snogging her then true love in such delightful locations as petrol station forecourt, car parks, and worst of all in a pub where we got told of by a group of teenagers who said we were old enough to know better

You could try standing really really close to them and stinking...