using the bus as an extension of your bathroom...

baby and crumble

... You know what I mean!

I was on the bus this morning around 7.30, and the woman beside me was brushing her hair and putting on her makeup!

The woman in front then decided to put on her facecream and spritz perfume (all over me- I now smell like Eau de Cabbage Water :mad:) Oh, and then she went at her nails with a file like her life depended on it. I could see the clouds of nail dust floating all over the place. it was so vile.

So tell me ladies- why do some of us think this is ok? I personally think it's really rank- surely you can get up 10 minutes earlier in the morning???

Malari

I thought you meant urinating :eek::D

I used to live right beside a bus terminus and every morning when I left for work it would coincide with the bus driver jumping down and having a pee against the side of the bus. :rolleyes:

I haven't been on a bus in this country in about 5 or 6 years but yeah, I don't really get why someone can't do this sort of grooming in their own house!

Eve_Dublin

Doesn´t really bother me to be honest. It usually keeps me entertained on the commute into work...some of the transformations are incredible. I saw a woman on the Metro (Madrid) last week transform into a completely different person right before my eyes. From good-looking woman to pornstar. I´m intrigued how these women don´t give a damn who sees them put on their slap. I´d be morto if I had everyone looking at me put on my mascara in the morning...I´d feel like I was auditioning for some really crap version of X Factor (or crappier version) and would get half of it on my chin, no doubt.

HOWEVER...filing your nails with your nail dust going everywhere is pretty vile alright.

Princess Peach

As a person who finds it EXTREMELY difficult to get out of bed in the morning, this is just fine. It may be easier for you to get up 10 minutes earlier, but I understand where these women are coming from.

I now have it down to a solid 15 minutes from getting out of bed to arriving in work with face of makeup and neat hair. I'm working on reducing that.

pollypocket10

Princess Peach wrote: »

As a person who finds it EXTREMELY difficult to get out of bed in the morning, this is just fine. It may be easier for you to get up 10 minutes earlier, but I understand where these women are coming from.

I now have it down to a solid 15 minutes from getting out of bed to arriving in work with face of makeup and neat hair. I'm working on reducing that.

+ 1

If I had the option of the extra few mins I would take it. Unfortunately public transport in Limerick is atrocious so I drive to work.

Also I don't have kids (yet) but I am sure trying to get kids ready and get ready yourself will leave lots of women hard pressed for time.

Xiney

As long as nothing (like perfume, nail dust or powder) goes flying everywhere I think it's fine. I've given tangled hair a go through on the bus and filed a broken nail. I've also put on my makeup. But I don't wear much on a day to day basis :-)

Konata

My friend was doing her nails on the bus once when the driver made an announcement to ask her to stop because the smell was affecting other passengers... she was mortified

Maguined

When I was going to college there was a girl on my bus route that used to eat her breakfast cereal on the bus. She would wait at the bus stop with a little tupaware container full of cornflakes and milk and then when she got would sit down open it up and crunch away. Our route involved a great many number of speed bumps as it goes through suburbs at the start of the route so she routinely would splash milk all over her chin.

It was most amusing to me every morning.

I don't mind women putting make up on the bus as long as they are considerate, I had one woman sitting beside me doing it and she had no consideration to what she was doing, she seemed to get annoyed that my face got in the way of her elbows as she applied her make up.

Malari

Maguined wrote: »

When I was going to college there was a girl on my bus route that used to eat her breakfast cereal on the bus. She would wait at the bus stop with a little tupaware container full of cornflakes and milk and then when she got would sit down open it up and crunch away. Our route involved a great many number of speed bumps as it goes through suburbs at the start of the route so she routinely would splash milk all over her chin.

It was most amusing to me every morning.

Gross! I can't imagine you you even heard crunches - the mixture must have been like cornflake soup by the time she ate them!

It's amazing what people do without any apparent compunction in full view of the public!

Maguined

Yeah if you sat near the front you could hear her crunching away, luckily I have always preferred sitting at the very back of the bus. She was just a very naturally selfish person though, she always sat at the very front of the bus in the seats you are supposed to give to the old or injured getting on the bus but she never cared, even when there were old ladies that could barely hold themselves steady she would not give up her seat.

I kept hoping one day the entire thing would up end all over her, but sadly karma never intervened.

I have so many stories from riding dublin bus over the last 10 years I am no longer shocked by anything I see on a bus.

Maple

It doesn't bother me in the slightest once they're considerate of their space and not all elbows and tutting.

I actually admire their application skills and how they manage to deal with the bumps in the road and the bus often screeching to a stop with a massive jerk, if it were me I'd end up looking like Coco the Clown or have makeup spilt all over me.

I prefer to take 5 minutes when I get to work and lash it on then.

IrishEyes19

I dont really see a problem with it if its just hair brushing and applying make up and such.

Obviously if you are spraying perfume or other sprays you should take into consideration that people could have allergies or irratations to such. But all in all. I think there are worse offences that could be committed really that are actually annoying.

baby and crumble

Hmmm, must be me so!

I just thought it was kinda icky for the woman to be brushing her hair all over me- I freak out when I see other peoples hairs in my sink at home! And the mad thing is I am terrible for the mornings too- but I at least wait til i get into work to sort myself out if I haven't had time!

bronte

Nah, I do everything I need to before I leave the house.
Don't have the patience for attempting it in a car/tube etc.
Most I'll ever do is smack on lipbalm or gloss or something like that.

squeakyduck

It doesn't bother me at all. Don't see many people doing it on the bus, the train is more common...to me anyway.

One thing that annoys me is girls doing their make up and hair in the car...

1. You are a bloody danger to other drivers/pedestrians/kids.

2. You're holding up the fecking traffic!!!

perri winkles

I find this crazy, I would never do anymore then putting on a bit of lipbalm on the bus!

Effort of carrying all my make up around, Id rather take the extra 5 mins in the morning to do it.
Its also a bit cringy tbh. Its probably just me, but Id be mortified to go out without any on and then for people to see just how much make up helps me out on a daily basis

Tchaikovsky

Last week there was a woman cutting her nails on the bus. The clippings were going everywhere.

Posy

I would do my eye make-up and sometimes face powder on the bus. I just CANNOT get out of bed any sooner.

Morgase

Putting foundation and eyemakeup and the like on on the bus is fine because it's not affecting anyone else (well, unless they're doing that elbow thing). As was mentioned already, I'm a bit fascinated by the transformation that occurs as they do it. I'd nearly be tempted to ask for some tips but that might be a bit weird!

But brushing hair and filing nails on the bus is a bit disgusting to be honest. Bits of nail dust and hair getting all over the seats and other passengers. Bleugh.

I was on the bus to college the other day and a stupid girl sat down beside me and started to paint her fecking nails! The stink was horrible and giving me a headache, but I didn't have the courage to actually tell her to stop it.

ordinary_girl

It's never bothered me too much when I see women put their make up on on the bus, if anything it always amazes me - I'd have eyeliner and mascara all over me if I tried! First thing I do when I wake up is use my GHDs then do my make-up so I've never needed to put it on on the bus.

When I was on the bus during the week I got the smell of mascara and thought my make up must've been running (it'd been raining) but I looked up and the woman sitting in front of me was putting on mascara. I kept wincing every time the bus moved incase she ended up poking herself in the eye :eek:

Vinta81

I would never put make up on on the bus. What's wrong with getting up 5/10 minutes earlier?

southsiderosie

As long as it doesn't smell or include shedding hair/nail clippings/drool on other passengers, I don't really care what people do on the bus. I just don't get how people don't end up stabbing themselves with an eyeliner.

Plus women doing their makeup on the bus PALES in comparison to the evil that is teenagers blasting their music on speakerphone through their mobiles. :mad:

metrovelvet

southsiderosie wrote: »

As long as it doesn't smell or include shedding hair/nail clippings/drool on other passengers, I don't really care what people do on the bus. I just don't get how people don't end up stabbing themselves with an eyeliner.

Plus women doing their makeup on the bus PALES in comparison to the evil that is teenagers blasting their music on speakerphone through their mobiles. :mad:

You should see what some people do behind the NY Post on the subway. YUCK.

mood

A woman once sat opposite me on a train and started flossing! So, so, so horrible. I grabbed my things as quick as I could and found s set as far away as possible. I'm sorry I didn't tell her how disgusting she was to do that in public.

Scarinae

mood wrote: »

A woman once sat opposite me on a train and started flossing! So, so, so horrible. I grabbed my things as quick as I could and found s set as far away as possible. I'm sorry I didn't tell her how disgusting she was to do that in public.

:eek: That's rank, she might have flicked a piece of inter-dental gunge onto you... Good thing that you moved!

I reckon anything that involves affecting other passengers is a no-no, whether that involves leaving debris behind such as hair/nail clippings/powder/tooth gunge, or infringing on their personal space with your elbows, or using anything smelly like nail polish/hairspray/perfume

I have to admit to doing my eye makeup on trains the odd time when I'm running late! I don't wear eyeliner with my everyday makeup though, only when I'm going out somewhere - I'm not sure I'd be able to manage it in a moving vehicle!

Posy

Vinta81 wrote: »

I would never put make up on on the bus. What's wrong with getting up 5/10 minutes earlier?

NOTHING can prise me from my bed more than one minute before 'if you don't get up now, you will not just be a bit late, you will be VERY late' time. I'm just really, really, really not a morning person.

doctor evil

Brushing hair or filing nails on a bus is rank, I hate the sound of the latter. Eating and drinking is risky as stuff goes everywhere.

donna.s

I never put on my full face of makeup on the bus/train but I do sometimes "top up" everything, especially my powder. I don't have a problem with other girls who do though.
I would never brush my hair or file nails on public transport though, I file my nails at home and never really carry a brush in my bag (the rare times I do I wait and brush my hair in the bathroom at the station)

Victor

zoegh wrote: »

... You know what I mean!

I was on the bus this morning around 7.30, and the woman beside me was brushing her hair and putting on her makeup!

The woman in front then decided to put on her facecream and spritz perfume (all over me- I now smell like Eau de Cabbage Water :mad:) Oh, and then she went at her nails with a file like her life depended on it. I could see the clouds of nail dust floating all over the place. it was so vile.

So tell me ladies- why do some of us think this is ok? I personally think it's really rank- surely you can get up 10 minutes earlier in the morning???

zoegh wrote: »

Hmmm, must be me so!

I just thought it was kinda icky for the woman to be brushing her hair all over me- I freak out when I see other peoples hairs in my sink at home! And the mad thing is I am terrible for the mornings too- but I at least wait til i get into work to sort myself out if I haven't had time!

In a thread about doing inappropriate things in the wrong place, why are ye hogging the bathroom doing make-up and wasting work time doing hair?

ztoical

Vinta81 wrote: »

What's wrong with getting up 5/10 minutes earlier?

The fact that I had have to get up 5/10 minutes earlier of course.

Honestly given some of the things I've seen on public transport over the years which includes pretty much every bodily fluid putting on make-up and brushing hair is miles down the list.

Whats the difference between someone bringing a bowl of ceral to eat or them buying some danish thing from cafe beside the stop or munching some fruit? As long as the food doesn't smell awful I've no issue.

Out of interest whats worse someone putting on some make-up on the bus or the mothers who turn up to drop the kids to school in their dressing gowns and slippers?

I don't see what's wrong with doing it at work, loads of the women do that
Not that someone doing their makeup on the bus really bothers me, it just seems so awkward

rhapsody

I was on the train a few months ago, only a few people in my carriage... a guy go on, took off his shoes and socks & clipped his toenails :eek: He could have been in no doubt that there were other people sitting near him. I could see his nail clippings bouncing onto the ground. I was too disgusted to say anything

As another poster said, I'm amazed by the transformation when I see girls doing their makeup on the train.... it only annoys me when I get doused in perfume.

Konata

rhapsody wrote: »

I was on the train a few months ago, only a few people in my carriage... a guy go on, took off his shoes and socks & clipped his toenails :eek: He could have been in no doubt that there were other people sitting near him. I could see his nail clippings bouncing onto the ground. I was too disgusted to say anything

Okay, now THAT is just gross. Eugh, some people >_>

SarahBeep!

Maguined wrote: »

When I was going to college there was a girl on my bus route that used to eat her breakfast cereal on the bus. She would wait at the bus stop with a little tupaware container full of cornflakes and milk and then when she got would sit down open it up and crunch away. Our route involved a great many number of speed bumps as it goes through suburbs at the start of the route so she routinely would splash milk all over her chin.

The odd time I'd throw a yogurt into my bag or have a packet of rice cakes(chocolate covered of course) and I'd get weird looks....It's not that odd is it???

I don't do my make up on the bus coz I usually stand on the bus in the morning coz I'll be sitting down for the rest of the day like. I will, however, do it in the car if one of the lads is driving! He will always give out as we pass women in traffic doing make up though :rolleyes:

Chuchoter

Why get up half hour early when I have a half hour free on the bus? I do my make up on the bus if I have to get up really early, I study on the bus if I've nothing else to do, I do my homework! The bus is a great place to get things done!:D

But I'd never do hair/hairspray/nails/perfume. Thats disrespectful and kind of dangerous. My teacher last year was really allergic to nail varnish fumes and hairspray, and if she came near it she'd have a really bad asthma attack.

shinikins

Years ago when i used to use the 25A every morning, i would see the same woman doing a full face of makeup and her nails whilst engaging random strangers in conversation. She would sit there bouncing along in the side facing seats and badly apply her makeup, it did nothing to improve the poor woman, she ended up looking like Coco the Clown, bright blue eyeshadow and red lipstick. Her nails were another thing, she had the longest talons that i've ever seen, i doubt she had ever washed a dish in her life because they weren't fake. Anyway, every morning she would apply a new colour on her nails and she used one of those 60 second polishes that stink!!!

If you can't get up the extra 10 minutes early to groom yourself at least save it for the bathroom in work, or go without!!

Maguined

SarahBeep! wrote: »

The odd time I'd throw a yogurt into my bag or have a packet of rice cakes(chocolate covered of course) and I'd get weird looks....It's not that odd is it???

The oddness is directly proportional to the messiness of the food being consumed. Nice solid food in sealed wrappers/containers that are easy to consume and it's all good, no one cares if someone eats a chocolate bar on a bus but breakfast cereal can be tricky, spooning milky cereal into your mouth while on a rumbling jostling bus is inevitably sloppy.

Togurt is probably safe enough but it really depends on how you eat it. People will often eat differently if they are in public or home alone, I think we have all licked a few plates when we felt safe no one was going to see however once on a bus I say a man eat a chocolate muffin as if him and that muffin were the only things that existed. Time seemed to slow down and I actually felt like I was interrupting an intimate encounter. He got crumbs everywhere as he gorged himself with many a wet smacking lips noise, and he saved the best to last as when the muffin gone he proudly held up the papery muffin case for all the see and then licked every last crumb from it completely smearing his face in chocolate.

beks101

I feel a strange sense of admiration for women who do this, simply because I'd never be brazen enough to do it.

Even the mirror at work feels weird when someone inevitably comes out of the bathroom to wash their hands beside me...I guess I find that transformation to be somewhat private and hate the idea of random members of the general public staring at me while the necessary act is being performed!

Plus...it's sort of a precise art, isn't it? I mean I've seen girls applying eye liner and lipstick and mascara on the bus/train/plane and I've thought, 'how the hell are you doing that?' The volume and precision and a steady hand are sort of vital to the end result, which is going to be the face that you'll probably wear for the day...and I'd rather face work/friends/whatever barefaced than with panda eyes, lipstick on my teeth and foundation lines across my neck!

QueenOfLeon

Passes the time on the bus and lets you stay in bed longer, win win! Since I've started driving it annoys me that I have to get up earlier to do make up and eat breakfast, since I used to do them in the car (not breakfast on the bus though!)

WesternNight

I don't really care about people doing make-up on the bus (although I know that one day I will probably see someone stab themselves in the eye with mascara), but I can't stand people who spray deodorant/body spray on the bus. It's never a quick spritz either, I find...always half the cannister :mad:

gti16v

6 years on from the original post I thought I would bring up this topic again as it appears to be becoming the norm for women to get ready for work on the train.

As a women I am horrified but today beat all we had one women put on makeup, spray deodorant and perfume all over the place. I thought that was bad but then she decided it was the ideal place to paint here nails.

Thankfully I wasn't sitting next to her. Women don't seem to realise that the people beside them usually get makeup dust all over them when they are using makeup brushes etc.

If you are a man or a women the train is not an acceptable place to get ready for work which includes makeup. At least have the courtesy of using the bathroom on the train if you have gotten up too late to get ready. Nobody want to put up with this crap first thing every morning.

sullivlo

gti16v wrote: »

6 years on from the original post I thought I would bring up this topic again as it appears to be becoming the norm for women to get ready for work on the train.

As a women I am horrified but today beat all we had one women put on makeup, spray deodorant and perfume all over the place. I thought that was bad but then she decided it was the ideal place to paint here nails.

Thankfully I wasn't sitting next to her. Women don't seem to realise that the people beside them usually get makeup dust all over them when they are using makeup brushes etc.

If you are a man or a women the train is not an acceptable place to get ready for work which includes makeup. At least have the courtesy of using the bathroom on the train if you heave gotten up too late to get ready. Nobody want to put up with this crap first thing every morning.

I usually cycle to work so rarely use the bus (if I don't cycle it's because I have driven as I need the car later in the day), but I was on the bus for a few weeks because of illness and I was appalled.

The makeup... I don't agree with it and I always have the fear that some woman is going to poke her eye out with a mascara wand. The deodorant. The perfume...

I can deal with them. Begrudgingly.

What I can't get on board with is a woman who gets the same bus as me who has a mini portable hair straighteners and she straightens her hair on the bus.

gti16v

sullivlo wrote: »

What I can't get on board with is a woman who gets the same bus as me who has a mini portable hair straighteners and she straightens her hair on the bus.

Wow I didn't even know they existed.

I think it was the nail varnish that did it for me

robyntmorton

I have no problem with little touch ups on the bus/train etc. provided you are tidy and discreet about it. Nothing that involves sprays/smells/choking other passengers though.

And, while I admire the skills of anyone who can apply eyeliner and mascara while moving, without leaving the tool stuck in their eyeball, I have to wonder, why are they both determined to present their full face of war paint to the world, yet content to be seen semi bare-faced as they work away on the bus/train?

mahoganygas

This really bugs me! Why don't they just get ready in the bathroom at work?

I'm starting to think some of these girls enjoy putting on a show. The train is now like a rolling beauty pageant.

I'm particularly bothered by girls crossing their legs (while kicking me) to create a nice little cradle for their makeup kit. And then continue to uncross (while kicking me) and re-cross (while kicking me). Just sit with you feet flat on the ground and stop kicking people!

And don't get me started on the multitude of handbags they bring with them. Why do you need 3 handbags every morning on the train? And why do you have to hold them all on your arm, completely oblivious that you're poking people in the ribs with them. Put them on the floor or hold them at your side!!

Wow. That turned into quite the rant. Apologies ladies. But boy did it feel good to get that off my chest.

Teyla Emmagan

I think this is an absolutely revolting habit. Are people not taught any more that you shouldn't groom yourself in public? I detest this make up on the bus lark. The smell of nasty products! The dirty make up sponges! The turning and contortions!

It's absolutely rotten to be stuck up to next to on the bus. In your own car, fine. But not on public transport.

tcif

gti16v wrote: »

At least have the courtesy of using the bathroom on the train if you have gotten up too late to get ready.

Actually please don't! There are very few bathrooms on the train considering the numbers travelling and it's infuriating when people hole up in them as soon as they get on only to emerge just as it's rolling into Heuston with all the hair and make-up done, clothes changed etc.

The bathrooms are for general use, they're not beauty parlours for the chosen few!

gti16v

tcif wrote: »

Actually please don't! There are very few bathrooms on the train considering the numbers travelling and it's infuriating when people hole up in them as soon as they get on only to emerge just as it's rolling into Heuston with all the hair and make-up done, clothes changed etc.

The bathrooms are for general use, they're not beauty parlours for the chosen few!

True just get ready at home.

intheclouds

Occasionally I break a nail and I have to quickly file it or itll catch in everything and tear further. I dont see a problem with it?

I dont really care if people want to do their makeup/hair/nails on a bus or a train so long as they arent jabbing me with stuff doing it.

Last bus I got a girl got on with a takeaway food and stank the whole bus out with the smell of chips and vinegar - thats more inconsiderate in my opinion - especially as she left her balled up greasy litter there on the seat for someone else to clean up.

sullivlo

intheclouds wrote: »

Occasionally I break a nail and I have to quickly file it or itll catch in everything and tear further. I dont see a problem with it?

I dont really care if people want to do their makeup/hair/nails on a bus or a train so long as they arent jabbing me with stuff doing it.

Last bus I got a girl got on with a takeaway food and stank the whole bus out with the smell of chips and vinegar - thats more inconsiderate in my opinion - especially as she left her balled up greasy litter there on the seat for someone else to clean up.

I have a huge fear of the sound of nail files. It may be irrational but I am not the only person who has this fear - someone else in my office is the same. We had to ask a colleague not to file her nails at her desk. I'm also grossed out by the thoughts of nail dust getting places.

TBH I find the smell of nail varnish/deodorant/perfume just as bad as food. I have pretty bad asthma and the make up smells can start me wheezing.

I just think that it's inconsiderate of people to use busy public transport as their own personal space - I mean where do we draw the line, could somebody start to clean out their ears? Use a personal nose hair trimmer? Clip their toenails? Brush their teeth and spit into a tissue?

There are certain things that should be done in the privacy of your own home.

intheclouds

sullivlo wrote: »

I have a huge fear of the sound of nail files. It may be irrational but I am not the only person who has this fear - someone else in my office is the same. We had to ask a colleague not to file her nails at her desk. I'm also grossed out by the thoughts of nail dust getting places.

So what do you do when you snag a nail and its ragged and needs to be filed?

Or, more to the point, what do you expect someone else to do?