Nose Blowers on NJ TRANSIT trains

Just once, I would like to ride to work on the train without the persons beside me and directly behind me, blowing their nose. I changed seats the other morning solely to get away from a man who clearly had nasal issues...only to be caught between two people equipped with custom tissues, viral respiratory infections and a total disregard for their fellow man.  If only these nose blowers were arrested and codes of basic decency were enforced with some regularity.  Last week, I was the first to board, thanks to my Clever Commute application on my Android phone.  But, invariably the train filled, and a fellow sat in front of me.  Just then, he and the chap who had just dead dropped into the seat to my left (an incredibly inconsiderate and selfish action that can cause one to drop their coffee all over their shirt or worse go into cardiac arrest), proceeded into an obscene and unsanitary round robin of automatic sneezes without the slightest attempt to cover, stifle or suppress the same.

Commuting into New York City has developed into a neurotic obsession with preventing or dreading becoming ill, though I have not had so much as a sniffle in over two years.  This is owed mostly to my hyper awareness and ability to work from home when the proles in the receivables department start turning up as martyrs in their cube farm with the latest bar cough.  

I fault my own mother for not raising me to know this ritual that every other American commuter in the hellhole of Penn Station appears to be so intimately acquainted, whereby as soon as one sits down in their seat they must immediately draw a tissue & begin to blow their nose forcefully. The true Masters of this Rite are able to summon a contagious cough to follow year round.

Most men in this country appear to be in dire need of a visit to the Ear, Nose & Throat Doctor. I do not at all relate to nor understand the constant phlegm snorting and spitting. I find it revolting.  Sure...sit down next to me, pull out a full meal and share it via your mouth breathing. Now...you blow your nose with your napkin to signify you are finished.