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Sweaty arses in my coffee shop

  • 10-05-2025 09:45AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20


    Hi all, maybe not a big thing given the state of the world at the mo, but on couple of mornings a week since I retired I like to linger over a nice cup of coffee in my local Costa. Its got handy parking and the staff are very pleasant so it has been a nice place to relax in. But, in the last couple of months a group of middle aged guys have started coming in after meeting up for a run. Whats wrong with that you might say, its sociable and they are getting some exercise? Well before they come in they stop at their cars and get towels, start wiping off the sweat thats pumping off them and come into the shop, still pumping and wiping while they are in the queue. Then they sit down on the fabric seats and have their coffees, maybe 5 or 6 of them, ive seen sweat dropping off tthem as they pass my seat and there is a pretty good unpleasant whiff too. I think its gross but I know that saying anything to them would result in abuse if they are happy to sit there in that state, even though there is a decent outside area they could use instead. So should I leave it alone and change coffee shops, say something to the staff, email head office about it? Or maybe I should join them, being a fat aul lad who spends too much time drinking lattes!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,660 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Smelly arse sweat. Yuck.

    There's a reason gyms demand that people wipe their seat.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 JJardan


    Thanks, thought i would be given out to for being oversensitive!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    I’d bet if it was young ones in their early 20’s it wouldn’t bother you at all……

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,038 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Six to one.

    Bad odds.

    Jog on 🙂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,670 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    …..wait till we get to other bodily fluids and human waste, skin flakes etc, that are left lying around the place!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 JJardan


    Interesting reply..maybe some people like leering at people in public, but I dont. Anyway, the issue is the sweaty arse, not who owns it?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 JJardan


    Fair enough, it's just when it's in your face...I'm sure most places are like crime scenes if you got a UV light out!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,134 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    I overheard a group of runners giving out about old men learing at them when they go for coffee. Can't go anywhere these days



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,670 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    whats not in your face, can be far more disgusting, we really do leave a lot of crap behind us, its just a part of being human, we all do it, you, me, the whole lot of us, we always have, some people dont bath regularly, theyre also using the same furniture as us, this has always been the way



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    An Introvert here OP.

    Unfortunately these middle age types pervade my own favorite haunt too. Don't mind the sweaty bums but I really fooking despise the loud chatter and cool stories to each other. Really a first world problem to these fellas and they won't change.

    Is there public seating in the middle of that mall? Get a takeaway ??



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,670 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    also a fellow introvert, but why should others have to change, what are they doing wrong, as they are simply fulfilling a critical human need of socialising, and are just using a public amenity to do so?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,220 ✭✭✭kabakuyu


    Find another coffee shop op.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,134 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    This. Oh and misleading thread title OP, I thought you owned it.



  • Posts: 553 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    you not into sniffing their seats after they leave?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    It's the perineum that gives me the sweats. A rotten smell also it needs a good scrub every day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 JJardan


    Thanks, change of venue needed I think, more of them than of me!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,319 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Sweaty arses in my coffee shop

    Sounds very lyrical ... maybe from a Pulp song



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭denismc


    Its what gives your coffee shop the "Nutty Roast" aroma!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 JJardan


    It's catchy alright



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭trashcan




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,319 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Sweaty Arses

    Is that a new political party ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 JJardan


    They'd probably get a few votes alright



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 JJardan


    TMI?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,217 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    I love these new posters....im always guessing what rereg they are...

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,391 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Sweaty arses in my coffee shop

    Sounds like a country song

    Someone just needs to write it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 787 ✭✭✭gigantic09


    Sweaty Arses was on the b side (appropriately enough) of Tina Turners Steamy Windows afaik.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    Or a coffee style like cappuccino

    Get your cup of Sweaty arse-aroma coffee.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 JJardan


    What's a Rereg? Genuine question as I don't know whether to be offended or pleased?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 JJardan


    My woman done left me and now I've a sweaty arse?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 JJardan


    Would that cost extra?



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