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.

lmao at the public profile of satsumas....

it was definitely funny

monster munch.eau de boeuf.mmmm.lovely

I think that, on the scale of social nicety, a satsuma woudl trump the Monster Munch

I ate a kebab on a bus once....

But then it was the night bus and I was 16....oOoOO am such a classy bird

monster munch,a delicious snack.great for weaning too

id rather smell oranges than some ones bo smell yabu a little

something like this should do the trick

I think a slogan is needed.

'Before you peel, think how others feel'

There MadameD, that should do the job.

Others may mock but I think your public awareness idea is genius.

is it only satsuma,this is an orange too far bound to make anyone hurl

ew! it hurts my eyes!

why thank you gibbon....

from tiny acorns...etc etc....

YABU. If had been a durian fruit, then that might have been different. They really are banned on public transport in parts of Asia.

Oh sm now that´s just too offensive-but perhaps never found on public transport?

more of a bike girl

ofgs yes yabu - some people need to eat when they can for various reasons and are entitled to do it where ever they like.

probably always found in a pink limo alongside this lovely pair

Jesus wept like twa spacehoppers in a string bag.that cannot be good for her back.

the trouble with the "I won't eat smelly food" posters on London buses is that smelly food is v subjective- ie one person's smelly food is another person's yummy food.

I live in SE London where people think nothing of eating a fried chicken breakfast on the 36

I am writing to Boris immediatement to demand clarification, and for the posters to be amended to "I will not eat FULL STOP"

(and the added bonus is that looking into that one should keep him out of trouble- eg cutting funding for Black History Month etc etc- for a bit)

...and Madame- I think it's a bit unfair that you are getting a pasting on here when it is quite obvious that you- and ds- have had a shocker of a morning.

Poor you!

much sympathy for the predicament,and resulting hassle

limited symapthy for MD so called solutions

much mirth about raising public awareness about the small annoying orange thang

no not jodie marsh...satsumas that malodorous weapon of olfactory assault

First they went for the smokers....
and then they went for the satsuma eaters....