To be irrationally annoyed by women putting their make up on on trains?!

[stillstanding]

There is a woman who gets the same train as me in the mornings and every day she spends half an hour gazing into her mirror applying her make up and generally having a good look at herself. I find it incredibly annoying but I'm not sure quite why ... I just find grooming like this in public quite off-putting.

I mean, I know that it can be a huge rush in the morning to get out the door and I for one have certainly left the house with a naked face in my time but I then go to the loo at work and sort myself out. I wouldn't dream of doing it in front of a carriage load of onlookers and certainly not as daily ritual.

Anyone else feel like this or am I alone in my irrational pet hate??

[mehdismummy]

wow i am impressed by the christmas presents on her lap i cant even do it with a whole carpet full of space!!! i dont actually care what anyone else is doing on the train as long as it isnt harming myself or ds but heh we must be annoyed by something someone else is doing beacuse just minding our own business is just not cricket is it?

[piprabbit]

Make-up on trains doesn't annoy me - but I do reserve the right to snigger (behind my paper).

[AnAuntieNotAMum]

YABU - I do it quite often as I'm a chronically late person. It's not anti-social, don't make noise, don't get in anyone's way, don't pluck eyebrows, don't file nails, don't squeeze spots or pick nose as many of my fellow tube travellers do.

[AnotherBloodySugaBabe]

I can't believe people find it 'annoying'.

How easily annoyed you must be!

Personally, when I'm on the tube of a morning, I find the following annoying:

Having to stand
Having to stand an inch away from someone I dont know
Having to stand an inch away from someone I dont know who coughs intermittently without covering their mouth / stinks / talks to me

Make up? Pah. You bunch of lightweights.

[sparechange]

"As for the staring thing, if they bring it out in public then it's fair game to stare."

Does that extend to breastfeeding in public?
The whole 'they should go and do it in the toilet' 'why can't they do this at home, I don't want to see it in the morning' remind me of all the usual arguments rolled out by knuckledraggers everytime a woman is turfed out of a cafe for breastfeeding and there is a big debate in the press...

[MillyR]

I put makeup on when I am on the train.

It is not my public face, it is my work face. I am not at work on the train, so I don't bother applying makeup before leaving the house.

I don't consider it a private activity. It is not dirty, smelly, sexually stimulating or revealing of intimacy between 2 lovers, so why does it require privacy?

It takes up no more space, movement, or elbow room than turning the pages of a newspaper.

So YABU.