So it’s been weeks that I am taking the same bus home and there you are everyday in the front seat of the bus hacking non-stop. Has it ever occurred to you to see a doctor? For a full 45 minutes to an hour everyone on this bus has to listen to your non-stop flem. I understand there may be some type of underlying issue and that this minor disturbance/annoyance is worse for you than those of us confined to sharing the public space. Until today, with the bus being very busy as usual, there was one seat left next to you, the Hacker. I have never experienced such a disgusting smell in my whole life, at first I felt bad for the hacking until i realized that you must eat raw tobacco for breakfast lunch and supper. I was unable to breathe sitting next to you, due to the excessive stench, every time you let out a rotten lung hack, I literally had to hold my breath. At least if your going to cough up a lung for weeks and not see a doctor; please use a breath mint, chew some gum, carry a water bottle-stop smoking three packs a day. Yes, I use public transit, but I have the right to be able to breathe in my own seat. —Riled about rotten air
This article appears in Dec 16-22, 2010.
Maybe he’s dying from lung cancer.
Merry Christmas
I get a kick out of seeing some people smoking and couging up a lung after every puff. Makes you wonder why they even bother , they can’t be enjoying it.
I’m with Hugo on this one. Poor fucker. I’m sure he just loves painfully hacking his lungs to threads just so he can annoy you and the other riders. Grow up and buy yourself a cup of tolerance.
Or suffering from COPD. Can’t explain the smell though…..
I lived in the same building as a man that smelled so badly, it was actually gagging.
Lung cancer, or copd, Or cystic fibrosis. Op you’re a selfish fuck. Be grateful you have your health.
first site when I googled
http://www.formulamedical.com/Topics/Sympt…
My dad was diagnosed with COPD last year. He’s not a smoker and quit over 25+ years ago, but he’s musician and played in the clubs before smoking was banned. He would be up all night in the bathroom hacking up his lungs. It was miserable for all of us, sure, but it was especially shitty for him.
Luckily enough, it turned out not to be COPD after all after a second opinion and extensive lung x rays and an MRI. He just has asthma which is controlled by excellent puffers. He doesn’t cough at all now.
Point is, this man on the bus may be sick with some sort of ailment that isn’t just a cough that won’t go away. Even when my dad was coughing his lungs up he had dr appts every week to try and figure out what the deal was. So you can’t judge a book by its cover.
The coughing is annoying to you, sure, but the poor schlep on the bus is probably having a much shittier experience than you.
So STFU, OP or buy a mask and some earplugs if the “rotten air” and coughing bugs you so much.
Thanks for that, PK – it’s so easy to judge when you don’t have the facts.
There’s a little skinny guy with dark hair looks to be in his 50’s I see sometimes in downtown Dartmouth ,he is often hacking his lungs up. I know he takes the bus, because I once heard him talking & cursing the buses…about how he’s had a couple of DUI’s & the insurance cost is now so high he can’t afford to get a license.
I think sometimes there but for the FSM goes I. But I’ve been off the smokes for over 20 years…..I think it’ll be 24 years this January
Well, while I think smoking is lame, I don’t think anyone deserves to get cancer or COPD. I talk to some wonderful people who have lung cancer and COPD at work who are palliative and none of them deserve what they’re going through. Smokers or not.
I can see Kirbul’s point — but I think the issue is smoking is so totally addictive that very sick people just don’t have the strength to kick that addiction. Some get a wake up call and quit cold turkey, while others simply don’t feel that living the rest of their short lives trying to beat an addiction is worth it. Kind of like how my grandmother refused chemo treatments when she had cancer because it would’ve only extended her life by 2 weeks or so.
Also: good for you, More, on the 24 years 🙂
this sounds like a rehash of another bitch not that fucking long ago. stop rehashing and get a new bitch. this isn’t urban legends you know.
let the person hack all they want, if they aren’t spewing over you.
Sure there might be another explanation but given the evidence it seems likely the OP came to the correct solution. The likeliest explanation is probably the true one. Due to the stench of cigarettes and the unending cough he’s probably a non-stop smoker. If he has lung cancer it is probably due to non-stop smoking and I don’t find myself filled with sympathy.
oh yes, and that crack about tobacco, another non smoking nazi in the midst, that was all this bitch is about anyway, right o.p.?
Maybe buddy is in training for his spot as a bum on SGR – gotta look the part.
“people smoking and couging up a lung after every puff. Makes you wonder why they even bother , they can’t be enjoying it.”
It’s called being addicted to nicotine.
only if it’s cigarette smoke they’re referring to… GF
If not, then the answer is pretty obvious.
they are enjoying it.