The man next to me on the train is eating a bowl of sugar puffs. He brought a ceramic bowl, a large box of sugar puffs, a small bottle of milk and a spoon with him. Now he's eating it, like this is normal. Not even a table seat, just a regular train seat. And he must be 50, if he's a day.
Yummy.
I once saw a woman on the Almondsbury interchange driving a BMW and eating a yoghurt...
That sentence is blissful. Absolute art.
My daughter once witnessed a man get on the Tonbridge to Strood train at Tonbridge, plug in his slow cooker, practise an operatic aria, unplug his slow cooker and get off at the next stop.
That explains the signs ‘only for phones and laptops’. I always wondered…
Always Sunny vibes from this.
That's surely a two handed snack, unless of course it was a Frube.
Not if was the Almondsbury interchange in rush hour/holiday traffic/sales time at Cribbs Causeway. Then you could often feasibly manage a set meal for three from the local Chinese, Deliveroo'd direct to the driver's seat.
The voice of bitter experience there... I used to work in an office that overlooked the M4/M5 junction and people would phone up, particularly on the Fridays before bank holidays , and ask us to tell them how far the caravans were backed up.
Is that a whole lettuce? I would find that weird…but my son eats them like an apple, sometimes in public. Surprised the educational psychologist that came to see him 😁. 🥬🥬🥬
I reckon he identifies as the Titanic...
Very cultured...
Echoes of Barry Humphries.
Did he tell them about the honey though?
More on the bowl please, was it a Clarice Cliff?
Your problem is what ?
I don't understand what the issue is, apart from his choice of cereal.
Agreed. Sugar puffs make your wee smell of... well... sugar puffs.
Its the breakfast version of asparagus.
What a tagline that could’ve been.
I did pitch it, but they went with, "Tell 'em about the honey, mummy," instead. An opportunity missed.
Reactionary bastards.
Exactly.
Terrible, everyone knows it should be rice krispies not sugar puffs
This is an adjacent category to this scenario (imho)…I sat behind the same chap on my daily train commute home for 2 months who watched nothing else on his iPad but episodes of Dukes of Hazard.
So the modern world, having murdered the concept of the lunch hour, now turns its sights on breakfast…bad times.
I once pulled up at traffic lights just outside Preston, the woman driving the Range Rover at the side of me was eating cereal, from a ceramic bowl with a proper metal spoon.
Leave me alone
Good for him.
"Tell 'em about the honey, mummy"
Chapeau
I haven’t had sugar puffs in YEARS!😂 The only thing stopping me from trying this is the inevitable spill. That smell never comes out! Also, I work at home, so there’s also that
and…?
What a very sensible chap!
Cereal offender
Is it Boris Johnson?
Propriety then demands fairy liquid and a sponge.
Next time take a portable electric hob with you and do a fry up 😂
Mmmm I kind of like celebrating difference and in this case what might appear slightly eccentric is just someone feeding themselves in their chosen way I saw a lot of difference growing up in Brixton and came to think, if it's not directly affecting me then all's good, indeed I learnt stuff
Livin' the dream, baby.
…enormous hairy bloke was he ?
A good advert for Sugar Puffs. British eccentricity. Make Britain Great Again.
Once a man in a brown suit got on the train. Sat at a table seat. Got out a tin of pilchards and a fork and started to eat them. I was going to write a novel starting with me witnessing this. And ending with me, in a brown suit, getting on a train...
Sugar Puffs? At 50? Check his harddrive.
Check his HbA1c.
What's his car got to do with it?
Sounds fair, esp as the bowl was ceramic
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The worst thing about this is that modern sugar puffs are basically stale popcorn thanks to all the sugar they no longer add
Love his style!
Call in the national guard, lol
Him >> you tbf. Be yourself. Always 😁 Unless it was smelly. Boiled eggs for example are not cool.
And everyone on the train wants to be that man.
Yes and?
Enjoying speculating the many reasons he found this necessary.
By the time he packed all of this he could have eaten them at home. Also sugar puffs are disgusting.
It’s not your reflection in the window is it?
Great use of downtime; it’s when people try to this while on the road we’ve got problems…
Bet his piss stinks. It's a sugar puffs thing.
One place I worked, they used to take the mick out my lunches (they weren't just a cheese sandwich 🙄). So I bought in a ceramic plate, a wine glass, a 'table cloth' (a large gingham napkin) and a tiny vase with a (plastic) rose in it, and set it up on my desk to eat my lunch.
This is survival.
You're jealous, don't lie.
No shame. Love it. More of this kind of thing 😄!
There was I, sat in a bird hide, adjacent to a young couple. Me, decked out in camo-gear, etc. Them dressed to the nines. He produced a champagne bottle and two glasses. ‘What’s the celebration,’ says I. She turned, and with a perfectly straight face, replied, ‘it’s the first Tuesday of the week...’
Of course you whispered a worshipful "teach me!", right?
Are you annoyed because he didn't share?
You should see the looks when I get out my calor gas hob and fry bacon for my morning sandwich
He's supporting good British eccentricity. We need more of it.
It's 20 years since this, so he'd be 30 in 2005. youtu.be/lhAr_UeroCk?...
It’s my go-to hashtag these days, if I’m honest. #RiseOfTheIdiots.
I'd point to one of the reasons for the decline in standards in public life was that point when it became ok to eat outside of your home or a cafe..
Mr Bean?
I like him already lol
And the problem is....????
I want Sugar Puffs now
Be grateful they’re not cutting their nails, as witnessed by myself on a train a few weeks ago!🤢
fingernails or toenails?
Fingernails thankfully, but still not a pleasant sight watching them pinging across carriage seats and floor.
