Nail clipping

[mirthmaiden]

I was recently riding on a bus where a woman began clipping her fingernails. Is this OK to do? What about at a table where food is served? How about brushing your hair in a public place (not a restroom)?

 

[CraftyMouse]

I would say that doing a quick clip of a jagged nail on the bus is acceptable, while doing a full trimming of several/all nails is not. I also see nothing wrong with brushing your hair in a public place, as long as you are off to the side and not bothering anybody. I actually prefer to go to the rest room to brush my hair but have no problem with others doing it inconspicuously in public. As for clipping/trimming nails or brushing hair at a dining table, that is never acceptable IMO.

 

[wishspirit]

No!!

Filling off a broken nail yes, but not properly clipping nails, that is unpleasent for everyone else on the bus!

For hair, as long as is not in the way and away from food, then its ok. Not however if someone is talking to you etc, because thats rude.

No clipping or grooming should be done near food, because thats gross, go to the restroom!

 

[fltwinmom]

We had a houseguest once.... a really good friend of my DH's that moved out of the state shortly after we got married

I could go on and on about the many unacceptable things that he has done while staying at our house over the years.

But, in relevance to this story: one day he clipped his fingernails AND toenails while sitting on our couch and left his clippings in a little nail "pile" on the coffee table for me to find the next day.

<insert barfy smily here>

 

[mirthmaiden]

We had a houseguest once.... a really good friend of my DH's that moved out of the state shortly after we got married

I could go on and on about the many unacceptable things that he has done while staying at our house over the years.

But, in relevance to this story: one day he clipped his fingernails AND toenails while sitting on our couch and left his clippings in a little nail "pile" on the coffee table for me to find the next day.

<insert barfy smily here>

Nice. I might have used a tissue to scoop them all into an envelope and mail it to him.

 

[vegasnative]

I have a very hard time listening to the sound of people clipping their nails. I can do my own, and I'm fine, I can even clip my boys nails and it's ok. However, when I hear someone else doing it, the clipping noise is like fingernails on a chalk board to me. It is such a bad sound for me, it makes me go all weak. My DH has to go as far away from me as possible when he clips his nails, he will try to do it when I'm not home, but if I am, he will go upstairs, into the bathroom and turn the fausets on full blast along with the exhaust fan to try to drown out the noise.

I have been in waiting rooms where people start clipping their nails, and I had to get up and walk out of the office. I cannot stand it, the noise goes right through me. It's terrible.

 

[fltwinmom]

Nice. I might have used a tissue to scoop them all into an envelope and mail it to him.

I wanted to do more than that.... I wanted to mix them into his dinner that night. And I wouldn't have told him until after he ate every last bite

But then again, I'm passive/agressive like that

 

[billysotherdad]

What about if they bite their nails, all ten of them, and spit the bitten ends into their hand and hold them?

I've seen that on that subway. It's like watch a chimp in a cage at a zoo. I was mesmerized and then, when he was done carefully chewing each nail down to a respectable length, he sat there with his fist closed holding all of the bitten ends in his hand until he reached his destination.

I wondered: Did he just open his hand on the subway platform and let them scatter like seeds over newly turned soil? Did he wait until he passed the garbage can and then dump them in? I suppose not letting them fall over the floor of the subwar car was considerate, but does anyone need to watch someone bite down all their nails and know that those clippings of hard nails are jabbing at the inside of his hand for, oh, something like a half an hour!?

 

[KristaTX]

It grosses me out to hear fingernails being cut, too. But the worst part is that people who do it in public are often not even kind enough to make a little pile and dispose of it when they are finished. Instead they just let the nails fling out and land wherever they may .

 

[mirthmaiden]

What about if they bite their nails, all ten of them, and spit the bitten ends into their hand and hold them?

I've seen that on that subway. It's like watch a chimp in a cage at a zoo. I was mesmerized and then, when he was done carefully chewing each nail down to a respectable length, he sat there with his fist closed holding all of the bitten ends in his hand until he reached his destination.

I wondered: Did he just open his hand on the subway platform and let them scatter like seeds over newly turned soil? Did he wait until he passed the garbage can and then dump them in? I suppose not letting them fall over the floor of the subwar car was considerate, but does anyone need to watch someone bite down all their nails and know that those clippings of hard nails are jabbing at the inside of his hand for, oh, something like a half an hour!?

Maybe he was saving them for a light snack later on.

 

[JR6ooo4]

I had some old guy, sitting behind me at a seminar, start clipping his nails. And you know that those nails fly everywhere. I survived, without feeling anyhting hit me in the head.

But I sooooo wanted to turn around and ask him to do his personal grooming in private.

Mikeeee

 

[mirthmaiden]

I had some old guy, sitting behind me at a seminar, start clipping his nails. And you know that those nails fly everywhere. I survived, without feeling anyhting hit me in the head.

But I sooooo wanted to turn around and ask him to do his personal grooming in private.

Mikeeee

It might have been funny if you lurched forward in slow motion, clutching the back of your head, saying "I've been hit!"

 

[Stacerita]

I just have to say ewwwww. I would hope to never find someone's nail clippings anywhere that I am.

 

[Cool-Beans]

If nail clipping bothers you, I won't even tell you what I saw a creepy old guy doing on the bus. Well, this being the DIS, I couldn't tell you.

But I had to change seats because he was looking at me and I was so disgusted and creeped out.

For some folks, the bus is a cheap way to get from one place to another. For others, it is a free-for-all.

 

[RVGal]

Put me in with the group that can't stand to hear other people trim their nails. Ugh. Just the thought makes my jaw clench.

Hair brushing is something that I don't really want to see anyone else do. I don't really want to see any grooming outside of a restroom. We're supposed to see the finished product, not the process.

My FIL has a terrible habit of picking his teeth with a toothpick that he keeps in his wallet. I really don't need/want to see that. Really.

 

[reeeoga]

I would ask the person to get mine next. I hate clipping my nails, I chew the fingers. The toes I have to clip, but I still don't like it. If I can get someone else to do it for free then .

The hair thing is moot with me.

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

I sometimes bite my toe nails. But only on the subway. I wasn't raised in a barn.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Nice. I might have used a tissue to scoop them all into an envelope and mail it to him.

I sometimes bite my toe nails. But only on the subway. I wasn't raised in a barn.

I'm glad you have standards!

 

[romymichelle21]

At least it wasn't a ghost clipping its nails

 

[MM27]

I went somewhere with a lady that I used to work with and I was driving. She pulled out her nailclippers and starting clipping away right in my car. I had to ask her to stop because it skeeved me out. She seemed a little offended that I asked her to stop but who cares?