Tonight, coming home from work on one of my 3 buses that I take to and from work(each way)...the person behind me was clipping their nails. Nothing makes me cringe like hearing a nail clipper in a public place. Whatever happened to manners? Have they truly gone the way of the Dodo Bird? Nail Clippers are only the first of my pet peeves.
People who spit while waiting for the bus, train and streetcar. My word, do you really find it necessary to expel whatever you imagine is in your mouth at that particular moment and believe that it needs to escape?
Women who put on their make-up in public, including moisturizer on their face. I am amazed at how one can put on mascara when one is going over a bump, and not end up with it all over the eye/face, but do you really need to show the world your morning routine? Could you not wake up a few minutes earlier, and do this in the privacy of your own home?
Oh what makes one's stomach do flops more than seeing a person flossing their teeth on the TTC, and not caring where those little pieces of plaque go? They must land somewhere, and it could you be they land on.
I could write several paragraphs on this subject alone, but I know that you clue into the idea. Now, I have a suggestion that would not only impede perhaps some of these most horrid habits, but bring some desperately needed funding to the TTC. I suggest that fines b levied against those who leave their manners at home. Those who commit their first offense, will be fined a paltry sum but you will be tracked. Your fines will then be based on the number of offenses that you incurred. After X number of fines, you will be banned from the TTC. This will result in making me one very happy person, and a life without cringing on the TTC.
4 comments:
You have actually seen someone floss on the TTC?!?! That is disgusting! EWWWW! I have seen the makeup application and the nail clipping but flossing?
As for spitting - is it really necessary anywhere? Gross.
Hear hear!!
I gagged the first time I saw someone clipping their nails on the TTC - soooooo disgusting. And you know from reading my post entitled "Someone please explain it to me" how I feel about the spitting.
I have never experienced the flossing first hand but I am so not surprised it happens - people are disgusting!!!
while in theory your plan sounds good...the flossing one does not top akb's subway story though... to play devil's advocate: how many people would will be okay with a tax increase to implement a 'miss manners brigade' on the ttc?
The first person that I saw flossing on the TTC, is the one that stands out the most. She was not even flossing correctly, but was knawing on the floss to the point where she was closely resembling a rabbit chewing on a carrot (picture Bugs Bunny in a cartoon). She was just holding the floss and the way she was flossing you know it was flying everywhere. ...
God, I want to gag everytime I hear that "clip clip" sound. and your post on spitting was so true. People are truly disgusting.
And I am not certain if a tax increase would fly.
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