OK, I ride the train to work.
I’m pretty used to dealing with public transportation and putting up with strangers.
I can deal with snoring people, drunk people, smelly people, loud people, sniffly people, whatever.
But lately my train ride to work has gotten, well, its gotten gross.
There has been a rash of people clipping their nails on the train.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I understand that people need to clip their nails. But come on!
Is a packed commuter train the place to do it?
really?
I find it hard to believe that these people are being ever so careful with their nail clippings and collecting them so that someone else doen’t have the umpleasant experience of sitting on someone else’s fingernails.
What is too personal to do on a packed train?
Picking one’s nose?
Itching one’e privates?
really.
wow, that’s a whole rant without one swear word.
Fuck, shit, dumb ass pig licking cunt.
there, now I feel better.
While waiting to meet someone at O’Hare Airport in Chicago I had the experience of weeing an older woman take out a pair of little scissors and clip her husband’s ear hair. Done with that he tilted his head back and she proceeded to clip hi nose hairs! I swear it’s true! Talk about a time and a place.
Fingernail clippings would be the least of my worries on a subway train. Theres all kinds of bacteria everywhere that would dwarf what fingernail clippings would do.
Once, six or seven years ago, on the DC subway, I saw a woman clandestinely stick a finger in her nose, snag a nugget, and slip it into her mouth. I kindly pointed out that she was in violation of the No Eating rule, clearly labeled here and there on placards in the train, and she could be thrown off if caught by a conductor. Her face turned the most amazing color of red and she got off at the next stop.
I used to hear rather than see that quite a bit on the NY subway. I would be half asleep sometimes and kind of think it was the conductor punching tickets. Then I would remember they don’t do that one the subway. Blech.
I saw a woman tweeze curly whiskers off her chin on the subway once, too.
