To think this man should have been thrown off the bus.................

[BohemianLilly]

Oh dear god, i have just had to out up with the worst smell i have ever encountered in my life!!!

It was like rotting corpses, stale fish and urine

This man was just happily sat there smelling like death while every single person on the bus was gagging (literally) even the LOs were complaining

Even now, 30 miutes after my experience im still gagging at the thought of it

Am i BU to think he should of been asked to get off the bus?? i bet i am, but why should anyone have to endure that??

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Sorry but YABU. He (presumably) paid his bus fare. He wasn't breaking any laws.

Personally I can't stand the smell when people over-do the aftershave, perfume, or deodorant but that's my problem and not theirs.

YABU. I doubt that this man wants to smell disgusting. Maybe he was sitting on the bus cringing as everyone around him gagged?

If he had paid his fare and was behaving appropriately then no, he shouldn't have been thrown off the bus.

Mind you I think people who wear the perfume Poison should be thrown off public transport; it makes me feel sick.

I was on the tube the other week, there were two issed up old boys one of them stood there and just issed himself, it could be seen by most people on the tube runnung down his trouser leg and on to the floor. No one said a word. Not nice, but I guess thats public transport

YABU if person has:

trimethylaminuria - makes people smell like an old haddock (not a cod obviously!!)

I worked with someone who had it - open plan office and she sat at desk just ahead of me - was a really embarrassing situation because everyone complained to the manager and he (because he was a po-faced twunt) didn't deal with it sensitively face-to-face - ended up leaving a note on her desk ... me and a few others were left dealing with fall out ... poor woman ....

something to do with liver not processing enzymes properly

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i do realise he probably doesnt want to smell so bad, but we all (everyone on bus) paid our fair too and we had to sit and endure the vile smell

Oh i know its unreasonable to chusk hime off, but hes put me right of my dinner!!

shuck him off that should say

OMG...i just spelt it wrong again!! chuck

I'm with sidge on Poison...smells of rotten carrots to me.

in fact, am now wondering if some smelly people are not actually smelly, they just have perfumes on that insult my smelling ability.....

to the OP......not unreasonable in one way, but some people really cannot help it

That's the joy of public transport. We can't choose who the other passengers are, it's accesible to all, smelly or not. If you want to choose who you travel with you should go by cab or car. I know it's not nice. I don't drive so have had similar experiences. This is why it's public transport though and this is why it's cheap(ish).

There are some medical conditions and illnesses which make some people smell very strongly.

can sympathise BohemiamLilly if he smelt same way as my ex-colleague - it was way, way beyond normal b o - wasn't actually physically possible to stay in her presence for longer than 10 seconds or so (although it feels real horrible saying that) ...

I think condition can be cured/improved by avoiding certain foods ....although sadly we never found out because she left shortly after letter incident ....

... and then there's the condition called shitting in your pants and not taking a shower ..

Venous ulcers can smell really, really bad too. Unless you know the smell, you would assume someone had soiled their pants.

I saw a bus driver yell at an old man once who obviously had one (I used to work in a hospital, so I knew what the smell was) and boot him off the bus.

Poor old chap, it was utterly humiliating and there was absolutely nothing he could have done about the smell.

Thing is...i can normally put up with a lot in the way way of smells, but so help me god this was VILE, i coughed and when i did i started to gag, DD was looking at me and saying "mummy are you being sick"

With my unerring ability to sit next to trouble I once plonked myself next to someone who smelt like this. Poor woman had some kind of neurological or motor disorder I think, couldn't keep still, was a wreck.

I could have moved, but i am so soft-hearted sometimes that I stuck it out cos I didn't want to add the insult of my moving away from her to the crapness of her life. I doubt she would have noticed actually, but I sat there attempting to breathe without breathing ifykwim.

so, no I don't think he should have been chucked off but I know exactly waht you mean about the smell, it is mind-boggling.

why didn't you move seats?

or get off and wait for next bus?

expat- because the whole bus smelt foul, so wouldnt have mattered where i sat. Also im not going to det off and wait for the next bus when theyre are every 30 mins and ive got a 3yr old wanting her dinner

that should say get off not det off

i'd have gotten off and bought her a chippy .

My dad had anal cancer, and I can tell you that it produced a very unpleasant smell which he had no control over.

This makes me sad on so many levels; to think that there were instances in my dad's life where people only remembered the smell. I'm petty sure that someone else would be sad to think about the man on the bus being thought about by his smell alone.

But smell is very evocative and personal in it's boundaries. So, in many ways, YANBU.

Appreciate it was grim, but quite a lot of people who honk like this really can't help it (enzyme disorders, working somewhere smelly, ill-fitting stoma, other medical problem) and at least you don't have to live with the smell whereas that chap does.