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??

i do appreciate that i was being unreasonable to say he should have been thrown off the bus, but that was earlier when i was still gagging and convincing myself the smell had somehow stuck to me

Has taken me almost all day to get the 'fragrance' from my nose

winestein- sorry to hear that

I can still smell the smell IYKWIM Bohemian - it wasn't pleasant - any way you look at it, it wasn't nice. It was only because it was my lovely lovely dad that I could stand it. I don't think it is unreasonable to find a smell unpleasant. Let's be honest, it's a basic human instinct.

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YABU. THere might be something wromg with him to make him smell like that,

dh once smelt really bad. like rotting meat. turned out he had a very nasty infection in his open wounds.

travelling on the bus and malodorous this unfortunate man has limited options so YABU

sorry but yabu. i totally agree that there might be something wrong or it may be that he just doesnt wash but that's his perogative. he paid his fare and has just as much right as you. FWIW last week there was a similar man on the bus going into town and being pregnant i felt so sick so i just got off the bus a couple of stops early and walked.

poor self care is indicative of deterioration in mental and/or physical health.poor wee chappie

I once travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Lake Baikal and back (1 week each way) with my mum and sister, and we appeared to be the only people on the whole train who did NOT smell of rancid, garlic-sausage-ryebread-&-beer-induced long-term B.O. All our fantastic travelling companions seemed oblivious to their smell, and I didn't see anyone apparently trying to wash on board the train. We were in the "bench-class" cheapo section of the train, but we did try to wash every day in cold water with our teeny weeny bits of soap, and the nice train guard once gave me some hot water in a bucket to do my hair. Maybe I had started to smell too I didn't mind the smell in the end and it was a fab holiday. You can get used to most things after a while!

This is of one the times I'm glad I lost my sense of smell for about 5 years after my dd was born . YANBU but learn to breath through your mouth next time.

Btw I have a parent who also smells less than sweet on occasions but he doesn't leave the house on those occasions.

YANBU. Why should everyone else have to suffer because someone can't be bothered to wash?
I know there are medical conditions that make people smell but they're rare. It's more likely that this man just hadn't washed for ages. it's highly anti-social to not wash and just expect other people to put up with the stink.

lacomtesse, I wouldn't breathe through my mouth in the presence of an extremely stinky person. Some smells are so strong you can taste them.

public transport is emm for the public, he is a (malodorous) fare paying member of public.

And all the other fare-paying member of the public shouldn't have to pout up with a foul stink when they've paid good money to be on the bus.

it strikes me the wee chap had issues.just don't breath in through mouth

The person probably can't smell themselves. Unless it's in the bus by-laws, they're probably within their rights to smeg out the rest of us.

Actually I disagree that just because you've paid your fare, you have a right to subject your fellow passengers to unpleasantness. The whole point about public amenities, is that they are there for all the public and that there is a recognised standard of behaviour and deportment in them. Anyone who steps outside of that, is not welcome. So if you stand on the bus effing and blinding, or laughing raucously and loudly and flicking things at other passengers, or falling around the bus drunk, you ought to be asked to leave, as the existence of public facilities depends on the co-operation of everyone who uses them (although nowadays people are more and more wary about challenging public bad behaviour). Stinking them out is another form of non-co-operation. Although of course, it can be a sign of mental deterioration and that's an issue of where you balance the rights of the individual against the rights of the community.

I would have got off

That's just what I was about to say littlebella. people are being very pc on this.

same here, Janni.

but i developed a weak stomach after having such bad vomitting with the two DDs.

i'd have walked, waited the next bus, bought a chippy.

but hey, this is a common enough occurance in many cities.

better smelly than some drunken, aggro thug.

Perhaps he had LD's or some sort of physiological problem.

i had to ride a bus with two very scary looking women today with track marks all down their arms.

i'd take the smelly person any day.

what is PC about short term discomfort and chosing not man chucked off bus- just for being snelly

same here expat - i find drug users and drunks far more scary than smelly people.