Gross behavior on the train

Announcement: The next person who starts "grooming" their nails on the Q train is gonna lose their liver courtesy of their clippers. End of rant, sorry :x

hey us homeless guys gots to do our nails too you know!

Oh, that is SO disgusting. Once when my bf and I were on the train some guy was doing that ... my bf said something to him and the guy sheepishly put the clippers away.

What is wrong with people!?!

A grand total of 3 of my male colleagues trim their nails....at the desk....in the office....and I hate it. "Snick, snick, snick, snick, snick....." :x

Proof that bad behavior can be found anywhere. Even - shocker - in i-banking.

My experience - the I-bankers are gross. Period.

They walk around the office with no shoes on, sit at their desks and wag their toes at you like you'd want to see that. Clip nails, trin nose hair, etc. Its a cubicle farm, not a spa!

Take 'em out back and shoot 'em, that's what I say.

Homeowner, that is exactly what they do.

Yea I just watched this yesterday on the train. Pretty nasty. I don't need to sit in a pile of your nail clippings, thanks.

i confess to trimming my nails at work :oops:

the only time i notice that my nails are too long is when i'm at work
pecking away at the keyboard. and pecking at the keyboard
makes the nails grow faster
it's a sick and vicious cycle

what i find weird is women putting on makeup while riding the train

quijibo wrote:

what i find weird is women putting on makeup while riding the train

I admit I do that when I absolutely don't have time to do it before I leave, and I'm going out (not to work or shop). Besides, its doubtful I will ever care what random people on a subway train think. God, that reminds me that somewhere I read that people voted that the train is the second best place to pick up men/women. Now THAT is gross behavior on a train.

caaahyoko wrote: [quote=quijibo]

what i find weird is women putting on makeup while riding the train

I admit I do that when I absolutely don't have time to do it before I leave, and I'm going out (not to work or shop). Besides, its doubtful I will ever care what random people on a subway train think. God, that reminds me that somewhere I read that people voted that the train is the second best place to pick up men/women. Now THAT is gross behavior on a train.
that's what i find weird about it

it's like some random stranger is giving me finger
and i'm like, ok, i'll feel free to scratch my crotch now :shock:

or the absolute most vile thing on this planet
a man/woman who rides the subway while it's underground
wearing sunglasses

unless you're blind or have a black eye there's no reason for anyone to wear sunglasses on a train

quijibo wrote: or the absolute most vile thing on this planet
a man/woman who rides the subway while it's underground
wearing sunglasses

Really? I like having a hat with a brim/bill and/or sunglasses if I'm so damn tired that I'm drifting off... why? I dunno... probably something to do with the vulnerable state of being asleep...

My personal subway peeve - on a rush hour train, when people start making for the door before the train stops (but as it's braking), and they expect you, the person standing between them and the door, to let go of your hand hold so that they can pass by. When the train is stopping or starting is exactly the time that you should be holding on, yet the assmunches absolutely must get to their desk 1.7 seconds earlier.

BklynTransplant wrote: A grand total of 3 of my male colleagues trim their nails....at the desk....in the office....and I hate it. "Snick, snick, snick, snick, snick....." :x

if you think clipping nails is bad, wait till someone in your office starts flossing!!!!
or, exits the bathroom still brushing their teeth because there is someone at the door who they need to buzz in...
ykes

quijibo wrote: or the absolute most vile thing on this planet
a man/woman who rides the subway while it's underground
wearing sunglasses

unless you're blind or have a black eye there's no reason for anyone to wear sunglasses on a train

i can think of a few more:

• they are Rx and you don't feel like fumbling around to change them just because you got on the subway

• you tend to be emotional and sometimes cry (even on the subway)

• if you have nothing to read, you sometimes stare off into space, unfortunately on a crowded train that often means you are staring at someone, even if you are not "seeing " them, but this does tend to make other people uncomfortable

• they are rose colored and they make everything look better

• when it comes to accessories, "reason" has very little to do with the price of eggs

yup
guilty on all counts

The grossest things I've seen on the subway always involve an empty car. As in, full car, full car, full car, empty car: hey I think I'll get in this one. ALWAYS a mistake. I remember wondering why I smelled urine before the doors opened. Homeless guy asleep with his pants down.

WhyFi wrote: [quote=quijibo]or the absolute most vile thing on this planet
a man/woman who rides the subway while it's underground
wearing sunglasses

Really? I like having a hat with a brim/bill and/or sunglasses if I'm so damn tired that I'm drifting off... why? I dunno... probably something to do with the vulnerable state of being asleep...

My personal subway peeve - on a rush hour train, when people start making for the door before the train stops (but as it's braking), and they expect you, the person standing between them and the door, to let go of your hand hold so that they can pass by. When the train is stopping or starting is exactly the time that you should be holding on, yet the assmunches absolutely must get to their desk 1.7 seconds earlier.

WhyFi, I often think we're the same person.

BrookFetish wrote: WhyFi, I often think we're the same person.

Was it "assmunches" that threw it over the edge? And does this earn me a cigar?

neene wrote:
i can think of a few more:

• they are Rx and you don't feel like fumbling around to change them just because you got on the subway

• you tend to be emotional and sometimes cry (even on the subway)

• if you have nothing to read, you sometimes stare off into space, unfortunately on a crowded train that often means you are staring at someone, even if you are not "seeing " them, but this does tend to make other people uncomfortable

• they are rose colored and they make everything look better

• when it comes to accessories, "reason" has very little to do with the price of eggs

or, if it's me:

i am photo-phobic from migraine and am trying to make it home without throwing up.

but i totally do put make-up on on the train. i know it's wrong.

Oh, and people having a reeeally loud, annoying conversation when everyone else is quiet. I know its not a library, but I really don't want to hear your bullshit. Those people always talk about the most asinine things.

Yet another reason ipods are loved.

I hate the nose pickers and the litterers.

The masturbators are the worst.

BigGuy wrote: The grossest things I've seen on the subway always involve an empty car. As in, full car, full car, full car, empty car: hey I think I'll get in this one. ALWAYS a mistake. I remember wondering why I smelled urine before the doors opened. Homeless guy asleep with his pants down.

Heh. I'll take nail clipping over subway poo any day of the week.

I remember getting on the train at Grand Army Plaza with two friends on Christmas day two years ago, a little tipsy after spending all day at a holiday drinking get-together, and we were all "Hey! We got a car all to ourselves!" and then there was a pause of about five seconds and one of my friends says, "What's that smell?"

At one end of the car was a homeless guy sleeping on the seats. At the other end of the car -- also on a seat -- was a huge, huge, disturbingly huge pile of human (presumably) poo. We fretted over which way to go to another car (pass the guy who may wake up and be a total weirdo, or pass by the poo pile?) for a moment then opted to very quietly make our way past the homeless guy. As we entered the next car, several people looked at us and laughed, and one guy said, "Ha ha! You were on the poop car!" So then we did that to others as they escaped into our car shortly after getting on the poop car at subsequent stops.

Ahh, Christmas memories. So special.

Breastfeeding on a busy subway is something I'm never sure how to react to. Seems totally unappropriate, but if the mother's comfortable doing it, i guess I should just mind my own business :?

I once saw a guy shaving off his face stubble with a Bic razor, without shaving cream. Then he looked at the calluses on the palm of his hand and started shaving them off too! Priceless.

Another big pet peeve on the subway....dudes rapping out loud with their headphones, usually some profanity laced, bullshit lyrics by some worthless 'artist'. SO bad. :x

So very odd that this thread got resurrected...I saw - or rather heard - a guy clipping away on the train just last night. F'n swine.

I know I've covered this before, but I really don't need to see another person eating a mountain of nasty pork fried rice on the train ever again. Bonus filth points if the container gets left on the seat or floor.

I had a nail clipper sit next to me a work a couple years ago...the best part was that after a heavy session, he dumped the clippings out of his keyboard and sweep them onto the floor with his hand.

EDIT: Sorry, I realize now that this is a new thread, but there was a similar one a while back.

On the way home last night, I jumped in to a subway car just before I noticed that it was unusually empty. A quick glance and a cautious sniff was all I'd needed to find out why. The source of the smell was laying on the bench at the other end of the car... it always amazes me how that funk can saturate a pretty good volume of air, even when three large doors are opening every couple minutes. Anyway, as funky cars go, this one was not quite bad enough to make me head to another car... although I was really tired, there was no room to sit in either of the adjacent cars, and I was only going 4 stops.

The weird thing about the whole situation - The fresh air afterwards actually burned in my nostrils, much like ringing silence after enduring loud music...

Carnivore wrote: The masturbators are the worst.

Definitely. I was sitting next to a mastubator once on a Monday morning and noticed some "rapid movement" in my peripheral vision for a few stops. I didn't realize what he was doing until I finally looked over and saw IT. I jumped up and got away ASAP.

I also can't stand:

1) when people eat fast food or any other stinky food on the subway (i'm not sure how they can eat a meal in such a unappealing environment anyway)

2) nail biting/filing

3) constant gum snapping/cracking (experienced this one last night)

4) people who use their tongue to "suck" the food out of their teeth- such a gross sound.

5) When people sit across the aisle from each other and carry on LOUD conversations (esp when in Chinese)

6) When people spit on the subway: I saw some teenage boys hock lugees and spit them on the subway floor.

I have a good friend who used to work at a place where the guy in the cubicle next to her would fart and burp out loud all the time. He also used to clip his nails AND he'd take out an electric shaver and shave right there in the cube.

She used to send me emails about how disgusting it was so one day I said "Give me his email address" and I sent him an anonymous note (from an email address that I never use and I didn't really care if he traced the IP) and said that the entire office was sick of watching his gross behaviour and that he needed to knock that shit off.

She sat there waiting for him to read it and when he did, he called his friend over to read it.

But it didn't change anything, sadly. More shaving and farting to come (until she quit that job).

Ah, well. It made me giggle at least to send him the note.

Once again thanking my lucky stars that I get to work at home.

Eating on the subway doesn't bother me. In fact, I'm a frequent offender on that count. I always take my trash with me though.

you people have some truly disgusting habits. :P

Carnivore wrote: Eating on the subway doesn't bother me. In fact, I'm a frequent offender on that count. I always take my trash with me though.

basically if it doesn't smell and it's not messy, I don't much care. But my (admittedly unscientific) observations indicate that most subway eaters prefer the cheapest, nastiest chinese food available.

Ok, I am a creature of habit. I tend to wait for trains in the same spot of the platform. At 8:20 every morning I board the 4 or 5 train at Atlantic headed into Gotham. There is a couple (I think they are British) who have a toddler and a baby in a huge effing stroller with every kind of baby related thing stuffed into it. Nearly every day I watch as they a) jump in front of everyone else on the platform, and b) shove their way into the crowded train. It's insane! It makes me so angry. They make everyone else wait for the next train while they take up enough room for 5 or 6 people. I understand that people have children. Ok. However, maybe don't bring the stoller, or fold it up, or take a car for Christ sakes!
Wow I feel better now. Thanks guys.