to think that if you can't wash yourself, don't sit becky to someone else on a train?

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Sat on the train, enjoying my lovely journey, managed to get a seat, and a bloke has just sat next to me who absolutely stinks of urine and sweat. I feel physically sick, am 32 weeks pregnant so don't really want to stand otherwise I would. It's disgusting.

AIBU to think that if you've got enough resources to buy yourself an iPad, iPhone, Bose headphones, etc etc that you should be able to find the resources to keep yourself clean? He's got a lanyard on showing where he works and I'm surprised they haven't said anything to him if this is the norm for him!

I understand some people have poor mental health and hygiene becomes an issue, however I don't feel this is the case with most.

I know I'm boring and having a moan but I feel 🤮

Why not offer to swap with his colleague so that they can sit together?

A scarf sprayed with perfume is your friend 😁. I've caught trains to work for years and have had this problem lots, it's much worse when pregnant and much much worse pregnant in summer. I soon realised I couldn't hold my breath for 45min so I just wear a scarf, even in summer! You can sit and discreetly breath into it. Oh the joys!

Oh, don't you sound nice. Not. Maybe he has a medical condition for all you know? Let;s just run straight to MN to tell a bunch of strangers how disgusting the person next to me smells.
Sorry, but this thread has just brought back memories of some utter arsewipe next to me on the train home from work several years ago messaging on his phone.
When I looked down (he hadn't particularly managed to hide his screen well, was in full view) the message said along lines of "ugh, person next to me just been itching, think she's got fleas"
Nope, that'd be bad eczema you cretin.
You sound just as charming.
Some lovely people about, you must be one of them.

I feel for you. YANBU. My sense of smell was also heightened during pregnancy and although the nausea abated during the second trimester, it did return in the third.

Some people really are inconsiderate when it comes to personal hygiene.

I think it's time to bring back the nosegay or a freshly washed scarf (light in summer, heavier in winter).

No excuse for being smelly in this country we all have bathrooms and running water. . I used to get a commuter bus most days often I had to move because of the smell of some unwashed stinker.

Rainbows have you ever heard the phase eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves think it applies to texts too

I second the perfumed scarf. I travel on public transport a lot and it's the most important thing in my bag!

Brilliant suggestion from Monsterchopz Offer your seat to his colleague behind so they can sit/work together.

Yes to perfumed scarf. Many years ago my mum had a job that involved visiting prisons. Many of her clients had things other than hygiene on their mind. she used to walk through boots every time and spray her scarf with a tester!

Complete sympathy though OP. I had to get off buses a few times when pregnant to be sick thanks to other people's total lack of personal hygiene. A woman once got off at same stop and gave me wet wipes, mints and commented "He smells like the last time he washed was in an uncleaned toilet".
It's vile

YANBU OP. Don’t get me started on stinky anoraks. It’s coming into autumn again and walking along behind some people on the street 🤮🤮🤮. WHY do people not clean their anoraks? Wash them? Dry clean them? Can they not smell that they REEK?????

My phone was well hidden - he didn't see 

@rainbowsandsmiles sorry that happened to you. In your case it was likely there was nothing you could do about it. An entirely different issue (though I don't really know what you were doing reading someone else's text messages ). In this case, I'm sure the bloke could've prevented himself from smelling quite so bad!

Maybe the colleague is sitting elsewhere for a reason! Probably thinking, I’ve got to sit next to the bastard in the office all day, at least I get a brief respite on the bloody train...

Ask him if hes o.k because you are worried because he smells like hes been to the toilet in his trousers.

Tissues with some bearable scent that you can keep near your face or a scarf as has been suggested - not any use to you this morning , but from here on.
I don't think there is any excuse for someone heading into work, already stinking.

It is grim and I can guarantee I always end up sitting next to a smelly person on the bus. Last week I had it.

I fully understand the variety of reasons why someone might smell. It doesn't make it any less grim though.

yesyesyes to perfume on a scarf- I am really sensitive to smell and this has saved me more than once.

That would be my idea of hell OP,my sense of smell was mad whilst I was pregnant and that would of made me sick!

I get really fed up with other posters blaming a health problem or disability for everything as well!

Not everyone who is disabled or has serious health problems stink!

I'm disabled and I have close friends that have colostomy bags and they never smell,both of my parents were seriously ill before they passed away and had catheter bags and they never smelt!

I know I'll get ripped apart for that statement but I no longer care,because so many posters on here that make excuses for other people(especially when they weren't there)always use a disability,extra needs or health problems as a reason to have ago at the OP complaining,that's not actually being understanding it's bloody insulting to lots of us that are disabled! Were not always the excuse/reason that someone stinks or acts like an arse!

Rudgie47 bloody brilliant

You are not wrong OP. Some people just reek. I have moved carriages before now to escape people’s stench.

I think often it’s a case of ‘all fur coat and no knickers’ where people spend more time, money and attention on the outside stuff than they do on the stuff you can’t see like laundry and soap and water.

DD has a very attractive female flat mate who always looks stunning with groomed hair, eyebrows and nails etc. She freely admits to not having washed her sheets or towels for over three months because she is ‘so busy’ and consequently her room and many of her things smell like a hamster cage. DD is thought a bit ‘mumsy’ for making her bed, changing her sheets regularly and occasionally vacuuming her room.

DS has a very attractive

It's quite possible that he doesn't know that he smells that bad. You become used to your smell after a while. Someone needs to tell the guy he smells bad. I have a very sensitive sense of smell and would have stood up instead.

I blame Becky.

Awful, I know. I once sat next to a lass on a train (well, no she came to sit next to me) and had to cover half my face with a scarf and breathe through it. I could have moved, true, but it was a long journey with a suitcase.
it's not just men who stink.

Oh @Loonoon you're right. Some people think if they wash up everyday they won't stink but the truth is a lot of stink can come from not washing your clothes or bed sheets often enough. Clothes hold on to smell. It's necessary to wash your clothes and dry them often. If someone showers everyday but reuses old clothes they will still smell bad.

Becky's fault.

We once got on a flight and along cane the third passenger for our row. He reeled so badly of BO I felt ill. This was not a quick run to airport smell it was days of unwashed armpit. At one stage I stick my head in my handbag with my perfume. 4 hours I had stuck with the smelly fucker! He came on as part of a group, aye well seen they sent him to sit himself!

I can still smell him now and it's gone lunch time... I'm guessing that there's a reason his colleague didn't sit next to him!