Do you think filing nails in public is gross?

[mie]

No.

[MadamePresident]

I am generally against it, but will do it sometimes in my work cube, which is semi open.

If you are doing it just because, I think that is different that doing it because you broke a nail and it has jaged edges. If I don't file that, I will chew on it, which is more gross.

[milkrations]

I don't think it is gross at all.

[Deleted]

I think it's gross but normally the sound it makes drives me crazy. I hate filing my own nails because of the sound.

[heyrebekah]

Doesn't bother me. Sometimes you just have to. A liitle nick in my nail will drive me absolutely insane until I can fix it. If I don't have a file I'll be trying to file it against my jeans, seat fabric, a brick wall...

[housegeek]

I think it's gross on an airplane. I'm imagining nail dust in the confined air. I don't think its gross any other time.

[Kore]

This is not something is find remotely gross. Coughing or farting on a plane is much worse.

[GailGoldie]

On an airplane is gross. Everyone gets to breathe in your nail dust. If you just have to fix a snag it is fine but full on filing away = gross and I am someone who files all the time but only at home or in my car. I cant stand having any snags etc.

[drloretta]

Nope. I figure the engine/air sound in an airplane is also going to cover any filing noise. File away.

My cube-mate used to clip hers on an almost daily basis at her desk. Yuck. To this day the sound makes me cringe.

[Deleted]

I'm not sure I think it's gross, but definitely weird that someone is doing that on an airplane IMO. It's kind of like plucking your eyebrows or other personal care beyond putting on lip gloss or something.

ETA: Clearly I don't take very good care of my nails. Maybe I should file them more often??

[heygrey]

it's not gross, but i hate the noise.

there is a lady who, i swear, saves her nail filing/trimming for church every week. EVERY WEEK. i'm guessing it's just a fidgety habit, but the little *clip*clip*clip*file*file*file*clip*clip* noises drive me insane.

[lindyanne]

A quick file because you have a hangnail or something - no. Clipping or full on filing and shaping - yes.

[Deleted]

Jul 5, 2012 15:36:42 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Jul 5, 2012 15:33:15 GMT -5 @redbellpeppers said:

I'm not sure I think it's gross, but definitely weird that someone is doing that on an airplane IMO. It's kind of like plucking your eyebrows or other personal care beyond putting on lip gloss or something.

ETA: Clearly I don't take very good care of my nails. Maybe I should file them more often??

Regular filing prevents breakage. You get tiny rough edges with every day use and filing helps keep them smooth so they break less often.

I suck at being a girl.

[Deleted]

Yes, but because the noise makes my skin crawl. Even when I'm doing it to my own nails.

[basilosaurus]

Jul 5, 2012 15:24:00 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Not cutting/trimming nails, but using an emery board for file them.

Someone on FB was complaining about how VILE it was that someone was doing it on an airplane.

Are we FB friends?

I find it pretty much the most disgusting vile thing that can be done in public. I just picture breathing in their nail dust. I glare daggers at public nail filers. I'm fair, though, as I do the same thing to public nail clippers.

I admit I'm completely irrational about this. I'll give a pass if it's obvious someone is filing down a tear, but public is not the time for your general grooming tasks.

[Deleted]

I do too RBP. No wonder my nails are shit.

[audette]

Jul 5, 2012 15:33:15 GMT -5 @redbellpeppers said:

I'm not sure I think it's gross, but definitely weird that someone is doing that on an airplane IMO. It's kind of like plucking your eyebrows or other personal care beyond putting on lip gloss or something.

ETA: Clearly I don't take very good care of my nails. Maybe I should file them more often??

I have filed a nail on a plane when I get one of those funky snags in my nail. Those drive me batty, and they catch on my yarn when I'm trying to knit. People seem to react more to the knitting than to the filing, so I'm guessing it's not horrendous that I do this.

[basilosaurus]

Jul 5, 2012 15:37:18 GMT -5 @redbellpeppers said:

Jul 5, 2012 15:36:42 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Regular filing prevents breakage. You get tiny rough edges with every day use and filing helps keep them smooth so they break less often.

I suck at being a girl.

My nails don't break. I don't file (the sound and the feel makes me cringe). I clip when they get long enough to bother me. I consider that success.

[rex]

Filing? No. Cutting/trimming? YES.

[HoneySpider]

No, not at all.

[BAMFMrsB]

Jul 5, 2012 15:35:44 GMT -5 lindyanne said:

A quick file because you have a hangnail or something - no. Clipping or full on filing and shaping - yes.

ITA. I keep a nail file on hand at my desk, but I'm not sculpting/shaping, just fixing a broken nail or a hangnail.

[ejpint]

I don't find this the slightest bit gross. I don't know if I've ever filed my nails on a plane or someplace super public, but I do it regularly at my desk if I have a few minutes. The only place I think I would draw the line is at a restaurant - but honestly, I probably wouldn't even notice if someone else did it.

[MamaMaui24]

So gross!

I have a thing with nails though. Fake nails, long finger nails, long TOE nails, French manicured toes = ALL gross to me.

Cutting them is gross and filing is less gross but I imagine breathing in your nasty nail dust in a confined space? vom. The sound of clippers and files bother me too.

I like cutting my son's nails though. Weird.

[Kore]

I never even knew people thought nails were gross until the nest.

[niemand88f]

If it was my seatmate on an airplane, yes gross. The sound really bothers me for some reason, and the nail dust would be floating around... If it is someone not RIGHT next to me, it would probably not bother me though.

[definitelyO]

emery boards = okay in public. Clipping of nails NEVER acceptable in public. (okay, maybe not never but pretty darn close)

[wanderlustmom]

I am in the minority, I think it's so gross. I would never file or cut my nails in public.

[IrishBelle]

Not gross but I cannot stand the sound so I hate it when anyone files their nails in front of me.

[polarbearfans]

It's gross and I can't stand the sound. I don't want to breathe in nail filings of a stranger. The sound is just awful.

[mayflowers22]

Jul 5, 2012 15:26:50 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

There is a teacher where I work who CLIPPED HIS TOENAILS IN HIS SHARED OFFICE AND ONE OF THE CLIPPINGS LANDED ON HIS COWORKER.

Hahahaa.