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To the people that smoke disgusting cigarettes and decide to sit next to me on the bus:
You stink like gross — so sit your ass as far away from me as possible.
PS: This goes for all you people who don’t shower/use deodorant. You smell too. And why the fuck is it so hard for you to clean yourself??
This article appears in Mar 20-26, 2008.
9 Comments
Your standards are too high. Plug your nose and accept people. But i will sit away from you, now that you have asked. . .
maybe you should wear a sign, or a nametag, so I know exactly who you are the next time I get on the bus…
“Your standards are too high.” Agreed!okay well first you are on PUBLIC transportation which in all fairness is for the public! weithe ror not they are smokers, drunks or drug usersheres somethign you can do since your too good for the bus drive a car! or are you like the rest fo us who cant afford it?
Perhaps somepeople have sensitive skin when using deoderant. Maybe someone just got off work and phsyically labored for their money and yes people do sweat and will stink because of it. Don’t naturally ASSume that people stink because they refuse to shower. What about if the person’s medication is making them that way do they stop taking their meds to please you? NO. I’m sure OP hon that you have stunk at least once in your lifetime, just don’t generalize!
I suggest you get off the bus and buy a car. If you travel with the great unwashed, expect them to stink.
I shower every day but choose not to wear deodorant because I don’t want to smell like a product every minute of my life. And you know what? Some of us think that people who smell like shampoo, various other hair products, terrible perfume / cologne and deodorant all at the same time… stink.judge not lest ye be judged, kind of thing…
Yikes
The bouquet on the bus is usually B.O. in the summer, wet mittens in the winter, and a fading combination of both odours in spring and fall, no matter who you’re stuck next to. It’s part of leaving the house and getting where you’re going. I try to sit by myself and count myself lucky that I wasn’t born in the 1700s.
Yeah, people on the buses in the 1700’s were way smellier. Just kiddin’ Beav, I know what you meant.