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     Innisowen Citizen Username: Innisowen Post Number: 399 Registered: 3-2004 |
Exaggerated personal grooming on the train(such as the example you mention) isn't that rare anymore. Comes maybe from people not having been raised too well by their own parents, perhaps. It's akin to the blabbermouths on their cellphones who just HAVE to let everyone within earshot hear their mobile phone conversations. | ||
| Carrie Avery Citizen Username: Carrie33 Post Number: 102 Registered: 1-2005  |
Was it always this way, or have we become so insensitive to others, that we do what feel what we want, say what we feel, or tend to whatever needs tending, disregarding the respect of others feelings? Have we become too overly sensitive and political, that now everything is noticed, analayzed, critized, and judged, that being human has become a real problem? I mean, come on, when did all this become an issue anyway? Were we robots before, and now we aren't? When exactly did everything become politically correct? I agree, people can be rude, insensitive, and real pain in my a--, but when did it become okay make a big stink out of it? When did we all change? | ||
| ML Supporter Username: Ml1 Post Number: 2279 Registered: 5-2002  |
Not a personal grooming story, but too good not to share -- I once passed a guy who was playing the guitar while driving his car on the Garden State Pkwy. He had the neck of the guitar out the window, and he was playing while he (apparently) was steering with his knees. That was over 20 years ago, and although I've seen people doing weird stuff while driving (reading books, shaving, putting on mascara, etc.) nothing tops the guy jamming on his acoustic while driving 65 MPH on the Parkway. | ||
| Carrie Avery Citizen Username: Carrie33 Post Number: 103 Registered: 1-2005 |
Wow, sounds like something that might have happened in the 60's and that is over 40 years ago. I guess, some things never change. | ||
| Soda Supporter Username: Soda Post Number: 2548 Registered: 5-2001  |
Love seeing folks flossing in cars & public places... | ||
| Carrie Avery Citizen Username: Carrie33 Post Number: 104 Registered: 1-2005 |
Just curious, does anyone know when the baby tables in the ladies room were invented? And, why aren't they in the men's room ( not that I went in, but have asked my husband, and he has never seen one) | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3868 Registered: 5-2001  |
Nail clipping story: Our financial/contracts guy at work (everyone has a guy like this - he has to sign off on everything, but is never around, doesn't return calls or read his e-mails & has to challenge everything) was spotted in his office one day, door open and not on the phone. I went racing over to his side of the building, giddy at the prospect of getting him to sign off on something, screeching to a stop in front of his door, hand up, poised to knock. There he sat, door open, shoes & socks off, clipping his toenails. He was bent over his feet, so he didn't see me. I turned & walked straight to my VP's office. "Hey", I said, "I'm all about 'can-do' but I draw the line. You get him to sign it". I don't think I've ever been so grossed out at work in my life. | ||
| mtierney Citizen Username: Mtierney Post Number: 758 Registered: 3-2001 |
On a different gross scale, last fall we were eating in a very upscale restaurant. We became aware that a woman, about 40, at a table directly in our line of vision, had her right bare foot up on her chair, her knee near her ear. She proceeded to massage her foot, pick at her toes, while continuing to eat! She kept her foot up there through the entire meal! We were going to speak to her or the server, but really chickened out. We thought it would end badly, judging from her class act. Watching her eat was gross. Sort of foot to mouth disease! We finished up our meal and left without complaining to the management. Should a restaurant intervene in a case like this? | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3869 Registered: 5-2001 |
M - You are a better person than I. When confronted with the grotesque manners of fellow diners, I loudly ask to be moved to another table, out of site. | ||
| Carrie Avery Citizen Username: Carrie33 Post Number: 106 Registered: 1-2005 |
My husband would have gotten up from his chair and went over to the girl and knocked her foot out of her mouth, and looked in her the eye, and said something that would have scared her so badly, she would have never been caught doing that again., anywhere.( I speak from a previous experiance, he really would have been so bold.,he has done it before) | ||
| Spare_o Citizen Username: Spare_o Post Number: 190 Registered: 9-2003 |
I remember as a kid in traffic in LA seeing a transvestite applying makeup while driving. Took me a while to understand why someone with a 5-o'clock shadow needed to wear blue eyeliner. The woman sitting on the train next to me this AM was applying makeup. Most I would do in public is apply lipstick, maybe a little powder but I don't think I have done that in years. | ||
| Morrisa da Silva Citizen Username: Mod Post Number: 145 Registered: 12-2003 |
Nail polish and nail polish remover should be banned from enclosed places like trains and busses. I have seen more than a few people polish their nails while commuting. Besides the fact that personal grooming does not belong in these venues the odor is offensive. That's what nail salons are for. | ||
| maaaa Citizen Username: Maaaa Post Number: 121 Registered: 5-2001 |
A woman sitting in front of me pulled out a curling iron and completely styled her hair without a mirror. I was mesmerized. | ||
| johnny Citizen Username: Johnny Post Number: 1190 Registered: 5-2001 |
A guy used to clip his fingernails in the morning on the train. It sent shivers down my spine. I couldn't bear it. | ||
| argon_smythe Citizen Username: Argon_smythe Post Number: 529 Registered: 5-2001 |
Carrie, I can attest that plenty of places now have changing stations in the Mens' rooms too. And that plenty of places have no changing table in either rest room. And that NJ Transit sees fit to provide a changing station in the Womens' Room but not the Mens' Room at Hoboken. And that I've really really needed to change a very bad diaper in Hoboken and had to do it right there on the train in front of everyone - anyone wanted to complain they were more than welcome to complain -- to NJT. | ||
| Cynicalgirl Citizen Username: Cynicalgirl Post Number: 1117 Registered: 9-2003  |
There's a woman where I work, an older lady with perfect teeth, who I've dubbed "the Tooth Fairy." A couple of times a day she can be found in the ladies room going through a full bore, multi-faceted teeth cleaning/oral hygiene regimen. Several rinses, expulsion of same. Thorough brushing. Serious flossing. All her gear on the counter, and then washing all of same. I sorta wish they had special sink areas just for this kind of thing...Clearly it's working for her, but it's disconcerting to come in and see her run through this whole routine, with the spitting, and the debris in the sink. | ||
| ML Supporter Username: Ml1 Post Number: 2282 Registered: 5-2002 |
as long as she doesn't do it on the train...  | ||
| Wendyn Supporter Username: Wendyn Post Number: 1358 Registered: 9-2002 |
Carrie, Short Hills Mall has a great bathroom setup where there is one large "lounging area" (like anyone would "lounge" in a public restroom) that has the changing table facilities as well as enough space for strollers. The doors to the separate men's and women's rooms are off of that area. | ||
| Hank Zona Citizen Username: Hankzona Post Number: 2024 Registered: 3-2002 |
Im changing my worst grooming option that might be seen on the train from toenail clipping to using one of those little nosehair trimmers...even if its the kind that Sharper Image advertises all the time. | ||
| Mark Fuhrman Citizen Username: Mfpark Post Number: 1280 Registered: 9-2001  |
Who needs trimmers? Just reach in and snap the suckers off (dropping discretely at your feet). |
