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To all the people that cover themselves in perfume and cologne before they get on the bus… STOP! No one wants to smell alcohol on their way to where they are going! You smell like the cast members of Jersey Shore. —Bus rider
This article appears in Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2011.
42 Comments
Oh that’s the worst. There was a woman who stepped on the bus who has a ridiculous amount of perfume on, and the bus driver kept the bus stopped. Opened all the windows. And asked her to sit in the back. I thought it was funny. But not for the same reason the woman thought it was funny. I hope it was laughs of embarrassment she felt. Hmm, Thank you for reminding me about the best bus driver I ever had.
That is the worse! It’s suffocating and rude.
The worse smells (overload):
-coconut
-cheap perfume
-musk
-and last but certainly not least, baths of dirty ashtray water smell
Votes cheap perfume is the worst of the worst.
Especially when it’s label “rose scented” but actually smells of death.
It’s even worse for those of us that have allergies to certain components in perfume that causes our noses to run like Ben Johnson on crack…..
Wintertime is not so bad as it’s hidden underneath all the layers but I know when the weather warms up… the floodgates will open from my sinuses.
..i was waiting to see how long it took before an idiot complained about scents! first of all it’s still a legal product.The cheaper scents are awful,but better than smelling dirty armpits from the art collage crowd or the stinky hair from old men..im tried of the local pretentious know it all facists who have to bitch about nearly everything that makes life worth living…next time,just rise above it,act like a mature human being and accept that people are different and have opposing pleasures. and lastly,i’d rather put up with scents then the inane natter of useless loud cellphone conversations , unwanted music pouring forth from mp3s and teen braggarts.
A car payment is worth not having to deal with everyone on the bus. But at work, half the office bathes in cheap cologne and it stinks.
best thing to get their attention, is to barf on them. i pretended i was going to do that a few years back, and you should have seen the look on buddies face, that was drenched in some real stinky shit.
bus driver laughed so much, i thoufgh he was gonna shit himself. of course he knew me, and how much i hate that stinky shit on anyone.tom had a good yuk that day.
Maybe the passengers misinterpret the “no scents” policy in offices, etc….and figure “no sense” applies to bus people.
One time a couple of guys get on the bus drenched with cologne, that I had to get off and catch another bus. I don’t have allergies but it burned my throat and nostrils.
It’s one of the reasons I don’t go to bars on the weekends- it’s disgusting how people bathe in cologne and perfume.
You forgot patchouli, tee. *shudder*
Ben Johnson???? you berk…
I’m guessing alcoholics love the smell….
and since they’re still technically people, you are WRONG OP.
and Yoshi… that’s not the best reason… but definitely on the list.
I don’t mind a little spritz or the whole rub a drop on your neck/wrists…
but how the hell can you not be light headed all day if you just walk by and I can taste it??
A very blunt old woman told me that the elderly used a lot of scent to cover up their ‘old’ smell which included urine. She said Depends or no Depends, you can’t instantly change your clothes every time you sneeze. I loved that old, TTFN-like bitch = ).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNee4tTrbZw
“She said Depends or no Depends, you can’t instantly change your clothes every time you sneeze.”
LMAO!
I realized I had way too much to rant about perfumes, took a breath and deleted the small novel.
Pretty much everything by halifaxmentor except the opposite is my point of view.
It is a legal product indeed. I don’t know how long it will be for, because like every other product in the world, we Canadians are allergic to everything (it seems) 😛
I know of someone who is so highly allergic to perfume, if they pass the scent they literally pass out and need to be rushed to the emergency immediately. I don’t know if they were exaggerating or what, because I don’t have an allergy to perfume, so I am not an expert on how it works.
But I for one, would feel absolutely AWFUL if I wore perfume someone who was highly allergic, and they had such a reaction.
But then again….. Are we supposed to give up everything we love because someone might have a reaction. Whether an allergy or just doesn’t like it?
I think with every single thing, there will be at least one person that gets ticked off with it.
I stand by hating the smell of musty smells of death that some women pass off as perfume.
” smells of death that some women pass off as perfume.” aka CHEAP
Perfume is liek a good leather belt, pay a little more and get a wonderful product that “bends” and moves with your natural scent.
I little spritz, I have no issue with. When you take a bath in or drink the perfume … that’s another story.
Maybe they wear too much to cover up body odor.
I have no idea what the Jersey Shore buttholes smell like, I have an old TV that only has audio and video.
That being said, that is an example of anti-TV. Kinda like birth control… sad sad sad. Maybe they should have a Kardashian trash vs. Jersey trash and see if the screen implodes.
Clicked post by accident; meant to add that FWIW if a woman has the right perfume on it doesn’t matter how much. It is literally like adding fuel to the fire. HOWEVER if it is the wrong scent, I don’t necessarily find it irritating as much as just gross. And the year I spent on a bus and 6 on a subway taught me that no amount of cologne or perfume covers up the smell of one or two au naturel people. I worked with a guy in Mtl wo didn’t believe in deodorant… yeah, it was fuckin awesome driving in a van with him in July.
I usually don’t wear scents, but I use scented body washes (usually from bath and body works or body shop) and sometimes I’ll throw on the accompanying body lotion — usually before bed (lately it’s been B&BW’s ‘secret wonderland’) and now my sheets smell pretty.
But when I go to work or wherever I don’t bother putting a scent on…maybe when I go out with friends I’ll put on a light spritz of Clinique’s “Happy” on (like spray the scent in the air and walk into it), but that’s pretty much it.
The WORST scent is that cheap ass scent “exclamation.” Epitome of cheap scent.
I love the fabreezy things that spray you as you walk past, its like you smell pssst.
First, it is farrrrr better than the “scents” i have been encountering on the bus lately: seriously unwashed bodies. One guy who stopped into the addiction centre on Bayers was putrid. I felt like i was going to toss cookies. Then, there are the assholes who cut one, and they’re silent and deadly.
I won’t wear perfume, but i do wear deodorant and those deodorant body sprays. Just a light, pleasant spritz, and they’re NEVER heavy or cloying.
I think ppl think that b/c it’s winter you don’t have to shower … NOT FACTUAL
Oh how I miss the days when people gather in public places and just went about their business. The days when everyone IN a public place didnt feel they have the right to scents only they enjoy, or no scents at all, when people with allergies( my heart truly goes out to them) played the cards that life dealt them, not trying to look at everyone else cards and stack the deck in their favour. Oh the days before political correctness, scent polices, no helmets on bicycles, skateboards, or roller skates, oh the horror how did I ever live to be the age I am now? Some of you havent been totally assimilated yet? you must remember those days? When public was public? Not today where public is individuals going around contstantly defending the 3 foot perimeter in all directions from smoke, perfume, someone with a cold, loud i pods, people talking to someone esle (oh the humanity!!!) Holy fuck!!! why do you types even leave the house? Stay in your fucking cocoons or suck it up. Public is public why should anyone go out in public and have to run a mental checklist of things not to do to offend the general public!!!!
Dilligaf45. The nanny state that you’ve described, was created to preserve the lives of the stupid. Elsewise, natural selection would be thinning the herd too much. Plus, somebody has to clean up the mess, think of them ;(
Lolz, I was dressed & half-way out the door before I realized that’s it’s Fri, not Sat. Lunch at the Aged Isosceles tomorrow if possible.
Sounds good Hugo – say around 1:00 -ish?
a little is all that’s needed. Youth pound it on and in themselves cuz nobody tells them a little dab will do ya.
I’d like to not have to use the bus…but I’m too old to afford a car and I have to work. So there’s the great smelly public between my job and I.
My allergies make sure that I don’t go to movies, theatre, concerts or any other place the public goes.
I need to breathe to get there.
Sounds good, see you then Ivan.
Whaddya say Hugo? Open invite to any bitchers who want to join us.
I’d love to join you boys, but I have a hot date tomorrow with some even hotter ladiez!
But I’ll see y’all at the bitcher’s summit!
Pictures or it never happened. Giggity Giggity. >; )
Of course Ivan, the more the merrier 🙂
You guys need to go to the Dome. I would pay to see that. I would pay, buy drinks, and be the designated driver to see that.
Dillagaf45. I love my space. Especially in a lineup where someone is trying to ass fuck me. I mean I don’t want to be assfucked in a line-up. Don’t you realize that humanity is de-evolving.
By the way. The good old days, people didn’t “smell” back then as they do now as far as I can remember. Marketing dictates if you don’t smell good, you’re a nobody. PHEW!
How many ads are perpectuating that fact that if you dose that shit on… you’re getting layed (laid).
Some days I wish I could lose my sense of smell. Actually, every day. I live in an old apartment and my days consist of constant nose shrivel ups, grants and mumbles about my smelly neighbours and scurrying for the nearest candle and/or incense. Anything they cook, which happens to be mostly the same god damn horrid thing every single day, completely floods my apartment. It smells kind of like rotten cabbage being boiled, with way too much nasty spice on it. And then there’s the weed…I don’t normally mind the smell of weed but when it smells like they’re smoking it right beside me it just irks me! Especially because all of my clothes smell like Indian food and weed. And don’t get me started on when they burn food! Well I’ll get started anyway. IT’S FUCKING GROSS. And of course there’s their cigarette smoke too but that one’s been done. I would kill for those scents wafting up to me, to be perfume. Absolutely would murder for it.
Everyone here needs to ride a TTC subway at rush hour like I did for several years. You would gladly take a Metro transit bus. Maybe my olfactory’s are just fried.
Good point Senor, marketing has alot do with it…the scents: not the ass fucking. :-). But the same marketing approach has been use to make the general public afraid of their own shadows. Everyone believes that we go outside without all our protections on, we are all gonna die. The sky is truly falling didn’t ya know?
Why don’t the self appointed nose police do like they do in Tokyo, wear a fucking mask! At the very least it will diminish the whinning sounds that infuritate the ear police!
see mel., you should have moved to where i am. none of that shit here. and there is even a space under the doors mind you. every once in a while, you might get the whiff of roast beef or something, but very seldom.
that’s why i like it here. and the people here, are all just like a big happy family. and yes, there is parking, even if you have 2 ars or whatever. i think there might be 1 or 2 units left.
,,omg yea melectric..I’m so fucking sick of smelling old dope smoke..it’s foul 🙁
yeah but martym, it’s the cheapest high you’ll get. sniffing old socks work too, or so i’ve heard.