# Have you ever been called out for PDA? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488 "2011-06-14T21:00:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/21 "2011-06-15T12:41:37Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > What is PDA? Personal digital assistant. You should never use these in public. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/22 "2011-06-15T22:41:32Z")
> [@HazelNutCoffee](#): > > A friend of mine said she was sitting in the back of a bus with her boyfriend, snuggled up to his shoulder, when all of a sudden the guy behind them slapped her boyfriend upside the head. “There are children present!” he snapped. “And sir, you just taught them that violence against total strangers is OK. Way to go, Einstein.” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/23 "2011-06-16T02:06:16Z")
I have actually had sex in public . . . and nobody said anything to us. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/24 "2011-06-16T04:34:36Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’ve been called out on PDAs, but there’s generally been racist implications; that is, when I’ve been with a woman who is (or at least looks) white. > [@cwthree](#): > > Similar here. I’ve only been called out by homophobes who can’t handle two guys holding hands. And I get it both ways with my girlfriend, who is white. Interracial lesbian relationships freak people waaaaaaay out. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/25 "2011-06-16T05:09:05Z")
Actually, plenty of times by my significant other. As a native Japanese in her homeland, she is rather reserved when it comes to PDA-ing. Holding hands, quick light hugs, quick kiss on the cheek when meeting up are OK. Lip kissing, throwing a kiss inside a train and long hugs are off-limits. However, behind closed doors, she’s a tiger! Hehehe. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/26 "2011-06-16T05:20:44Z")
I was at a Jonathan Richman concert at a music festival several years ago with my then-boyfriend (now-husband) and he had his arms wrapped around me from the back in sort of a hug-like stance. We weren’t macking on each other or anything. Then this chick in front of me stuck her digital camera up in the air to start recording the concert, and after a few minutes when I realized that she was planning to record the whole fucking thing, and was blocking my view, I politely asked if she could move the camera so I could see. Or I should say that’s what I intended to do; in actuality I only got as far as “Excuse me” and starting to point at her camera when she sighed loudly and said, “WHATEVER - at least I’m not DISGUSTING everyone in sight like YOU two are” and stomped off. I was like: what the fuck was that about? I’ll be honest, it kind of ruined the concert for me. And all I wanted was for her to move the camera like two inches to the left! Some people. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/27 "2011-06-16T06:03:24Z")
“Mom! Dad! Gross! Stop it!” Other than an embarrased child, I got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/28 "2011-06-16T20:08:29Z")
[Last night, in Vancouver.](http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/3170/tumblrlmw2cvphw41qzikus.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/29 "2011-06-16T20:16:42Z")
Those Canadians are _really_ nice! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/30 "2011-06-16T20:20:17Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > [Last night, in Vancouver.](http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/3170/tumblrlmw2cvphw41qzikus.jpg) Must be Bruins fans 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/31 "2011-06-16T20:21:22Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > And I get it both ways with my girlfriend, who is white. Interracial lesbian relationships freak people waaaaaaay out. May I ask what (approximate) area you live in? In my neighborhood, you’d want to be careful. (You’re black, no?) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/32 "2011-06-16T21:11:12Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > [Last night, in Vancouver.](http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/3170/tumblrlmw2cvphw41qzikus.jpg) Ah, the Sexual Revolution. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/33 "2011-06-16T21:25:37Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I was at a Jonathan Richman concert at a music festival several years ago with my then-boyfriend (now-husband) and he had his arms wrapped around me from the back in sort of a hug-like stance. We weren’t macking on each other or anything. Then this chick in front of me stuck her digital camera up in the air to start recording the concert, and after a few minutes when I realized that she was planning to record the whole fucking thing, and was blocking my view, I politely asked if she could move the camera so I could see. Or I should say that’s what I intended to do; in actuality I only got as far as “Excuse me” and starting to point at her camera when she sighed loudly and said, “WHATEVER - at least I’m not DISGUSTING everyone in sight like YOU two are” and stomped off. > > I was like: what the fuck was that about? I’ll be honest, it kind of ruined the concert for me. And all I wanted was for her to move the camera like two inches to the left! > > Some people. And at a Jonathan Richman concert of all places! Talk about not getting it!! ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/34 "2011-06-16T22:08:34Z")
Yes. Mostly by people who know who are bitter, not strangers telling us we’re inappropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/35 "2011-06-16T22:20:47Z")
Heck, go back enough years, and I was disciplined and removed from an important school office just for having a schoolmate of the opposite sex _in the same room, with the door open, after school._ Touching wasn’t even a factor. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/36 "2011-06-17T03:17:31Z")
You wanton trollop! :eek: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/37 "2011-06-17T03:58:39Z")
I was about 25, and the guy I was seeing was a baby-faced 20. He was also about twice my size, at least 6 inches taller, and I’ve always looked younger than I am. We were at the Wenatchee Apple Festival, it was night, and he was wearing a long trenchcoat. We were just standing there snuggling, making out a little, me enfolded in his coat, when a cop shined a light on us. He seemed very concerned that I wasn’t there of my own volition or something; guess my gentleman friend seemed threatening or something! Once he saw our IDs and realized I was kinda robbing the cradle, he apologized and left us alone. I _think_ that was the only time; it’s the only time that springs to mind right now, anyhoo. And I always DID wonder what made him think I was in trouble or something; he really seemed very concerned for my safety! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/38 "2011-06-17T04:02:09Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > ‘and her bf needed to get a room’ > > Is this some euphemism for getting a boner or something? 😕 Telling someone to 'get a room! is implying that whatever is happening is something that should be done in private, never in public. So, ‘get a room’ as in ‘Get a hotel room for that kind of freakiness!’ ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/39 "2011-06-17T05:06:42Z")
Not since high school… Had my hands on my girlfriend’s hips. She had her hands on my shoulders. Must’ve been a good three, maybe four inches of daylight between us. School gives us detention for a ‘physical embrace,’ sends home an inflamitory note to both our folks, implying that we were all but raping each other in public. That was the last straw in my declining respect for school authority. Have been _honestly_ busted other times, but never in what could be called ‘public.’ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488/40 "2011-06-17T15:42:02Z")
Last time was probably 20 years ago, kissing my girlfriend on a train platform. Passerby: “Get a room!” Well-deserved mocking; it wasn’t a for-public-display kiss. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-called-out-for-pda/585488.md?page=3)