At 8am.

Fucking nasty.

Breakfast is not the time to wolf down 40 lbs of potato salad and cold rice pilaf you fucking slob. And especially on public transit full of other people trying to get to work not grossed out.

That is all.

I'd rather see that than someone wolfing down a greasy runny smelly egg sandwich. I can honestly say the smell of rice pilaf doesn't bother me. I'm not even sure it really has a smell.

It's not the smell that gets me, it's all the scraping and digging in the bowl like a hyena on a gutted carcass.

I like the egg sandwiches myself, but yeah - the T is no place for those either.

I just don't understand people who think any form of public transit is "picnic time". I don't want to be subjected to 45 minutes of watching you eat anything on a moving vehicle, be it train, bus or boat. Especially on the boat. lots of motion in the ocean. Makes you look like a retard covered in sauce. Why can't some people just eat at home, or in the office break room?

yeah but what about if it's a meatball sub? Are there free Vermin passes for brothers of the meatball?

Welcome to riding public transportation!!! When I lived in the city I took it every day, and in 7 years have taken it once since. Wait until summer time when its nice and hot and you stand next to people who don't wear deodorant or take the heat well.

And no sense in wondering why people do what they do - they just do, and there is a lot of stupidity in this world. You can just realize it or drive yourself nuts by analyzing it or getting upset over it. If we want to talk about fuck tards in the real world, we can do this all day. Let start with the Assclown who stole my phone at school and thought i'd forget about it....... I'd like to be a fly on the wall with some people and see how they make it through life later on.

I've taken the T many, many times, basically from high school until about 5 years after every day.

I don't remember seeing so many people camping out smearing their faces with buckets full of smelly leftover glop.

Thankfully, I won't have to worry about stinky people standing next to me in the summer or any other time. I take the MBTA Commuter Boat from Hingham. Everyone showers here, and there's seats enough for everyone.

The 2 weeks I had to take the Red line before we moved though after I cancelled the garage downtown - OOF. Quincy Adams and Quincy Center Should be renamed Karachi and Kabul, and Wollaston and North Quincy have become Bangkok and little Saigon, so yeah - "cultural" smells were abound. But I expect that on the Subway lines. Not so much on the Commuter Rail/Boat.

You'll appreciate this, Vermin...my college roomie once decided to grab something to eat before we boarded the B line to head in to a Beanpot game. Dude grabs a large meatball sub, crams onto a standing room only green line train and procedes to attempt to eat that shit one handed while getting bounced around by the frequent stops and starts. Shit was everywhere...meatballs rolling down the center of the train...fucking people...

This is the reason why I drive to work.



It's not really the reason why but it works out good.

Sounds like my hallway. A family of Middle Easterns moved in a few months ago. VERY nice people, but my hallway now smells like Central Square from all the cooking. I have to burn oils.

The Red Line is why I drove to Boston from Quincy for the last 6 years. Awful.

The Boat really is pretty good. I wasn't the only one staring and getting grossed out by potato salad jabba. She must be from Weymouth or Hull.

I drove to work while eating an egg sandwich. It would have grossed out Lisa who was sitting in the passenger seat except she was having one also. Plus she's used to me being gross. Good sandwich though.

noticed anybody blowing their nose "the irish way"?

Oo, the people from the places doing the stuff!

^^^ Brings tupperware full of Leftover Indian food on the Bus and slobbers it all over herself.

hells yeah! and then i burp on you, ah ha ha haaaaaaaa

psst...you have pakora in your teeth

okay yeah, i agree that that is just gross. totally not limited to the irish.

I take the T from and to Quincy every day so of course I have no idea what you're talking about

Member when Elaine dripped the Tzatziki Sauce all over George's dad's TV Guide while eating a gyro on the subway?

I learned my goddamn lesson after that.

People eating on public transportation doesn't cause me physical pain so I probably shouldn't bitch about it, but *damn* it strikes me as extra vulgar.

This is the jist of what I was getting at.

It's just classless. eat on your own damn time, in private. You don't need to share your nasty lack of self control with everyone on the T. You can wait 15 minutes until you get home or to your office to eat. You don't NEED to gross everyone around you on the T out with your loud smacking and chomping noises, inability to keep your mouth closed while chewing, scraping the bowl like you were just picked up after being a castaway on a remote island for the last 6 months.

It's as rude as having a loud personal conversation on your cellphone in public, but with awful food stank, and the visual gross-out of your complete lack of manners and social etiquette on top of it.

i'm looking forward to stories about annoying yuppies on the commuter yacht

I don't think it's even possible anymore to take public transportation without having to hear at least one of these.

poor danny v, so civilized

I don't normally mind the "Hey honey, I'm on my way, be at the station in 15 minutes." type. Everybody does that.

But the 20 minute gossip fest or pseudo-bragging about office confrontations with co-workers is kind of retarded.

Yeah, this is a ridiculous complaint.

People should feel free to move their bowels right there next to you on the T and if you don't give 'em a Kleenex so they can wipe themselves thereafter you're some kind of Margaret Dumont straitlaced prude.

I agree, eating almost ANY food on the T is usually pretty fucking nasty.

Especially on the subway, like when some guy is standing eating a whopper during rush hour ... always blows my mind.

But I've taken the commuter rail and having to sit near someone chomping away on snacks is usually offputting.

I love that you're coming at me on this because after you read my post you realized I was vaguely talking about you, and you feel kind of embarrassed about it.

Ms. JJ Millie - "Gross Tupperware totin' face-stuffer on the T lady".

This morning on the ol' 57 bus, I turned to the elderly woman seated next to me for assistance but she couldn't understand what I was saying so I'm not gonna ride that bus again until I learn the Chinese for "Hey lady, help me out here with this colonoscopy."

what about the guy who has his ipod cranked up because he wants everybody else to hear what he is listening to?

It's like the "What are you listening to?" thread come to life.

People who talk loud on phones around other people is what gives us Dan From Providence's co-worker's stories.

yeah! with my hands that i've been digging through the trash with!
oh hey, can you please return my lice? i'm pretty sure i saw a few jump on you before you ran away crying.

that guy is listening to Sonic Youth. in 2009. What a Douche Bag.

Please tell me it wasn't really indian food though.

I guess one of those "JJ's" stands for "Jabba".

I recall her looking scrumptious.

lets talk about what is appropriate to microwave at work while we are at it. No seafood ... no popcorn

SOMEONE PLEASE HIT THE STOPPING BELL FOR ME I'M BUSY CONDUCTING SURGERY

well there goes my popcorn shrimp lunch

This.

also anything with copious amounts of:

Garlic.
Onions.
Curry.
anything Asian/Indian/Middle Eastern in origin.

even worse than the tupperware scraping sound is the actual sound of eating. Munch munch slurp crunch..GROSS

goddamnit, what the hell are we allowed to eat?!

The easiest thing to do it just ban microwaves in the office. And I'm being serious.

It's not a question of what.

It's where and when.

Eat whatever gross stinky food that contents you int eh privacy of your own home.

When you're in public or a shared space like an office with people who aren't your spouse/better half/family - have some respect and keep the stink and the noise to a minimum.

I wouldn't have a problem with this.

How am I supposed to explain curry to my kids?

Vermin you're gonna give yourself high blood pressure! Chill out man!

Visual aids.


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