PUCCI GALORE

No, Dear, This thread indicates that there are some terribly insensitive people - nay disgusting people using BA lounges.

I have long said here how horrible it is to have feet on the bulkhead - I actually would prefer shoes to socks and socks to bare feet altogether. I have told you many times about that man (aka pig) who was clipping his toe nails in F and how a piece flew through the air and landed in someone's drink.

I am tempted to wonder what people do in their own homes - however of far greater interest is when one walks through hotels when rooms are being cleaned and the maid leaves the door propped open. It looks like a garbage dump and the wardrobe ignored in favour of a floor-drobe. I really wonder sometimes how the maid manages to clean anything at all.

This is yet another symptom of the I'm paying so I'll do as I please and to hell with manners or basic hygiene syndrome.

FatnLoud

^^^

And few people who grasp the concept of public transport!

stevie

All the time I see in lounges socially unacceptable or annoying acts. Then I remind myself I am in a public transit lounge and in a matter of minutes I will be out of there.

some of the complaints on this thread are laughable I have to say.

shorthauldad

If we put social customs/phobias to one side, what's unhygienic about bare feet?

sapper188

Here, Here, my sentiments entirely, those pax are so wrapped up in their own importance that they have no respect for others because it would interfere with their existence, actually it wouldn't even enter their heads that other pax are around them.

LTN Phobia

[Edited to add: Two paragraphs below pertain to activities witnessed on board aeroplanes and/or in lounges by me]

I've seen a woman clipping her toe nails, another painting her toe nails (she was promptly told off by a member of cabin crew for the smell of nail varnish) and also a lot of women filing their nails, both toes and fingers.

Men clipping their nails, picking rubbish from under the nails and flicking them etc too.

Not really appropriate for aeroplane or lounges. There are things that should not be done in public.

When I was at school, we were specifically told that it is terribly ill-mannered to do any kind of public grooming except for a very, very quick lipstick touch-up while looking away a little bit into a compact. Don't girls get told that nowadays? Am I showing my age?

So true. I find it sad that some people do not seem to think about others and think "I do what I want, sod the others".

Lioneye

So if I'm reading this right, just beneath a wafer thin veneer of politeness everyone in the lounge hates everyone else in the lounge with a vengence.

sapper188

Love it!

LTN Phobia

Well, some people behave like they do hate everyone else around them, such is the repellent effect of their behaviour I guess they'd rather disgust people away than saying that they do not want other people within 20 metres of them

Filthy Monkey

Appreciate the sentiment, but having worked as a 'hobby bobby' on the streets of Glasgow, I can assure you that I also took it seriously and I don't find the term offensive at all
I clearly did something wrong, though, as I didn't get to drive any fast cars!

sapper188

You are absolutely right. Doesn't this extend outside to everyday life, other than friends and family, (although we have stopped seeing dear friends who suddenly started to talk only when they had put food in their mouths and then chew with mouths open) that people just annoy one in some form or other. Grumpy old woman here!!!!

shorthauldad

Q: Is it the doing of these things per se, or that you have to see them being done?

GadgetGal

No, some girls are still taught that

LTN Phobia

Doing those things in private is perfectly acceptable and in fact a good idea However, doing those things in public is naughty and not in a "naughty but nice" way.

Rickers

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Am I showing my age?

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Honestly ?

Yes.

And not for the first time.

But as long as that's all you're showing, you should be fine !