in being cross at the girl on the very crowded commuter-stuffed bus who decided to peel and eat a satsuma?

[MadameDefarge]

Two reasons I am pissed off at this. One is, I do think that eating something very odiferous in a confined public space is anti-social....there is no escape from it...(even healthy foods)

second, and I do know this shouldn't really come into it, but its an hour long bus journey for ds who has dyspraxia, and he has trouble with travel sickness AND is a supertaster....literally throws up in the presence of oranges being peeled and eaten. She was sitting right opposite him.

I saw how he was trying to control himself, but it was clear he wasn't going to make it. So I manage to get him off the bus, for him to throw up all overhimself, and poor wee lad has to walk 25 mins in the freezing cold without his top layer....

Possibly IABU.

I can comiserate with your son, as someone who suffers from travel sickness and quite badly as a child the number one thing that made me throw up was the smell of oranges. I love oranges and OJ normally but not when I am travelling!

YABU. Satsumas are not really an awful smell for nearly everyone other than your DS - although you are entitled to feel pissed off at the outcome, it's not fair to be pissed off at the girl who couldn't possibly have known.

Bananas aren't that non-smelly - I knew a girl who could smell one being opened from about 20 feet away and had a similar physiological response to them as the OP's DS. Apples OTOH are pretty inocuous.

I agree that the vast waves of strong perfume/aftershave are more likely to be highly offensive to more people - are you sure it's a good idea to take him on buses if he has a supersensitive olfactory system?

' because I was brought up to think that eating oranges on trains etc was really anti-social, because it is so strong....

..really???

its just a fleshwound, what are you having trouble with?

My ds was sat several rows away from me.
She was sitting opposite him.

Yes I read that MadameDefarge, but you knew your son my be sick-she didn´t!

Ruby - Not so much a thing about 'touching up' or putting on a slick of lipgloss - more like a woman getting on a train or tube and spending the entire journey taking over fellow passengers already limited space ... there is a time for everything. And I am a bit about things that should be done at home rather than in public ... just me, I guess

yabu

putting makeup on in public is just wrong

I didn't know anyone would be eating citrus fruit in front of him! And I don't actually have a choice about using the bus.

Because most commuters don't tend to eat on buses...maybe its just London, but it doesn't tend to happen. Its just too crowded for a satisfying nibble experience...

later on in the day, however, it is kebab and McDs heaven...

she wasn't chomping on a big mac

satsumas are not even messy

therefore yabu

You just seem very defensive ... but the two postins confused me ... not hard, I grant you!!

Leaving DS situation out of it (which is did say was not really the point in my OP, just an unfortunate byrproduct) I still think its antisocial to "perfume" public air with one's own chosen snack. Because some people will dislike it.....

YABU! Your child has a problem so you should manage this. Eating a satsuma is a perfectly acceptable activity for most people.

Nah. Eating strong smelling food of any smell in an confined public space where people cannot move away if they dislike it is imposing on others.

Would it have helped to swap seats with your son?

YABU - if your child was starving hungry and grizzly on the bus, bet you wouldn't hesitate to get the snacks out. Wouldn't upset me in the slightest - apples, pears, whatever (coz Oranges are not the Only fruit! Sorry!)

i commuted on the tube for an hour a day for years and wouldn't eat. no one did. we had manners

....and southeastastra agrees with me....

I hate to see people eating on public transport.

By your reasoning, people should not wear perfume, not use detergents or fabric softeners, not talk, not wear migraine inducing patterns.... any number of things which they will be "imposing on others"

diddl, buses in London during rush hour do not allow for swapping seats without a massive upheaval for lots of people...

At school we were not allowed to be seen eating in our uniform on stree/bus.

This has stayed with me.

citrus fruit smells are extremely pervasive....I could smell it several rows away...

Like SEA says. Its about manners.

YABU. very few people would find the smell unpleasant.