# Sorry to interrupt your beauty routine **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 16, 2016, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347 "2016-04-16T11:50:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/1 "2016-04-16T11:50:28Z")
You know the one where you pull out the bottle of nail polish _on the train_ which causes me to ask you to put it away because it smells noxious which results in you putting it away but repeatedly spreading your fingers & looking at the unfinished nails & then me. Yeah, that one. BITCH! ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/2 "2016-04-16T12:07:38Z")
Wait. What? She acquiesced and put it away, and you’re STILL calling her a bitch? For wishfully glancing at her half finished nails? Wow, tough crowd! ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/3 "2016-04-16T14:00:09Z")
Are you sure this isn’t because you said she looks like dogshit when she wakes up in the morning? ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/4 "2016-04-16T14:12:44Z")
I’ve never noticed nail polish to have a smell… remover on the other hand… ---
**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:** [April 16, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/5 "2016-04-16T15:36:24Z")
The OP evidently did not appreciate the reproachful glances of Ms. Nails. I still fondly remember the acetone stench when a woman seated nearby on my commercial flight decided to have a lengthy session with her nail polish remover (stopped eventually by the flight attendant). Morons is morons. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/6 "2016-04-16T15:53:25Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Wait. What? > > She acquiesced and put it away, and you’re STILL calling her a bitch? > > For wishfully glancing at her half finished nails? > > Wow, tough crowd! Glancing at nails & then at me was very passive-aggressive, which is BS for voluntarily doing that in a public place with a semi-captive audience. The first of my senses to notice it was smell, not sight. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/7 "2016-04-16T15:55:19Z")
I had someone try this on a plane. Fortunately the flight attendant shut her down quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/8 "2016-04-16T18:37:58Z")
What about the idiot who dropped a bottle of polish in front of my cash register counter while I was away and didn’t tell anyone? I come back to a mass of hardening purple polish with a horrible smell. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/9 "2016-04-16T19:11:33Z")
That passive aggressive glancing was burning your skin was it? How dare she? You’re right, what a bitch! Um, no. A bitch would have told you to pound sand, and continued on. So I don’t think a woman who ceases when requested qualifies as a bitch. (And I’m in full agreement that this ought not be a public space activity!) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/10 "2016-04-16T22:43:04Z")
See, if you had been in Jersey, she would have been able to fnish her nails while she was getting gas. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/11 "2016-04-17T20:43:05Z")
Actually, it was an NJTransit (NE Corridor) train. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/12 "2016-04-18T02:56:08Z")
Yeah, but she was clearly from PA. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/13 "2016-04-19T00:18:44Z")
Getting on in Metropark??? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/14 "2016-04-19T15:19:08Z")
Naturally! Metropark is a known hangout for inconsiderate Pennsylvanians. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/15 "2016-04-19T19:36:41Z")
I first thought this was a brewing catfight between two high maintenance divas until I saw the OP’s name. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/16 "2016-04-19T19:47:08Z")
Sexist. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/17 "2016-04-19T20:12:15Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Glancing at nails & then at me was very passive-aggressive, which is BS for voluntarily doing that in a public place with a semi-captive audience. The first of my senses to notice it was smell, not sight. Your last name Usher, bitch? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/18 "2016-04-19T20:13:32Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Glancing at nails & then at me was very passive-aggressive, which is BS for voluntarily doing that in a public place with a semi-captive audience. The first of my senses to notice it was smell, not sight. Wow, she really got to you. You could have just ignored her, but I bet you were keeping any eye out in case she decided to whip out her nail polish again. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/19 "2016-04-19T23:46:54Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > I had someone try this on a plane. Fortunately the flight attendant shut her down quickly. Wow, someone was able to get a noxious liquid chemical past TSA? ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-to-interrupt-your-beauty-routine/752347/20 "2016-04-20T14:06:59Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Wow, she really got to you. You could have just ignored her, but I bet you were keeping any eye out in case she decided to whip out her nail polish again. I thinks, its more like “She’s really into you”. That glaring, that “repeatedly spreading your fingers & looking at the unfinished nails & then me” - that’s her showing that she wants - no, she NEEDS - a dominant man in her life; someone to tell her when personal grooming is appropriate and when it is not. Seems like **Spiderman** is her guy.