Discrepencies In The Obsessively Compulsed*

This morning a woman got on the train, took a bit of newspaper out of her bag, placed it carefully on the seat, placed herself even more carefully on top of the paper, making sure to avoid all seat-to-bottom contact. She then took out a hairnet, and carefully placed that over her head.

Now organised, she looked sideways at the woman sitting beside her with a look that said "I'd say you were the most putrid, germ-infested thing I have ever seen. If you so much as brush past me, I will probably be dead by the time I reach Emergency".

The other woman looked sideways back at her, with an expression that said "what the hell are you sideways-looking at, shower cap head?"

But anyway, the point of this post is that Mrs Clean then proceeded to lean on, and hold tightly the metal pole, seemingly without a second thought. It occurred to me that this would be like having to wear knee-length gum boots to use the urinal, but then resting your hands on the trough.

*Is 'compulsed' a word? If not, can we make it that it is?