Public transport ettiquette

[Dreamstalker]

If your clothes smell like a pride of lions pissed on them, STAY OFF THE BUS! Damn near got asphixiated by some old fool TWICE in the last week (the same guy). I can't stand the 6-week-old-ashtray stench either, but this guy made my eyes water, it was that bad.

After stinking up a bus, these specimens enter the grocery store. I would think that the stench alone would be enough to have them declared a health hazard and booted. I dealt with two of them today...and of course they had complicated issues that necessitated me staying in their poison gas cloud until I could manufacture a reason to get away

[MoonCat]

After stinking up a bus, these specimens enter the grocery store. I would think that the stench alone would be enough to have them declared a health hazard and booted. I dealt with two of them today...and of course they had complicated issues that necessitated me staying in their poison gas cloud until I could manufacture a reason to get away

Yeah, one thing I hate about summer is the number of people walking around who obviously haven't bathed or used deodorant. I know everybody gets hot in the summer, but come on people! If you can afford the cigs, you can spare a couple dollars for a sample size deodorant if nothing else!

[mathnerd]

Also, when a disabled person gets on the bus, don't bitch and moan that you have to get out of the seats designated for elderly/handicapped. There's exactly two places on most city buses where a wheelchair can be tied down. Trust me, the person in the chair would love to have the option of getting up and moving, or even standing on a crowded bus.

[Blue Ginger]

Technically couldn't you go to the court and mention that? Idk if it is different rules for Lawyers and Jury but we were told NOT to talk about the case or even do any independent research.

Yeah, for this one I did go to the court. It was a very very public case and the details this fruit loop was sharing were never made public.

The Judge was not impressed at all and this lawyer was removed from the case. Luckily the lawyer only an underling so it still went ahead.

[XCashier]

Yeah, one thing I hate about summer is the number of people walking around who obviously haven't bathed or used deodorant. I know everybody gets hot in the summer, but come on people!

There's a big difference between a sweaty person who normally has good hygiene and one who just doesn't bathe. The smell of "overheated person" isn't pleasant, but it's tolerable. The smell of "hasn't used soap since the Reagan administration" leads to So yeah, everyone should bathe more often in the summer. Think of it as a good way to cool down!

[mathnerd]

There's a big difference between a sweaty person who normally has good hygiene and one who just doesn't bathe. The smell of "overheated person" isn't pleasant, but it's tolerable. The smell of "hasn't used soap since the Reagan administration" leads to So yeah, everyone should bathe more often in the summer. Think of it as a good way to cool down!

I was contemplating taking the trolley to an appointment with my middle son instead of driving. Then I remembered that due to the cast on his leg*, his hygiene habits are a bit, um, less than stellar** at the moment. I decided to spare the poor innocent public.

*Cast comes off bright and early Tuesday morning! He's already informed me that my mission is to drive home like a bat out of hell so he can get a shower as soon as humanly possible.

**I don't have a tub, only showers, and it's proven to be completely impossible to protect the cast, so he's been doing his best with sponge baths and attempting to shower while sitting on the shower floor with his leg hanging out. It's not working very well.

[Monterey Jack]

So yeah, everyone should bathe more often in the summer. Think of it as a good way to cool down!

I always make it a point to shower every morning (it's really my "cup of coffee" that gets me going), and if I'm going for a walk on an 80+ degree day, I usually jump right in the shower again as soon as I get home to wash the potential stink off and just to cool down. I also use deodorant, and I can't imagine why people do not. Just roll it under your arms a few times, is that so difficult?

[cindybubbles]

Someone urinated on a streetcar seat, or reeked of urine while sitting there, and I had to deal with the stench of it while on the way back home.

We told the driver this, but there was nothing she could do about it.

Also, babies. While they're cute and adorable, their strollers are not. Parents, if you can find and use a transit-friendly stroller for your little ones, please use it! I'm sick and tired of having to manoeuver around the SUVs of the stroller industry!

[Seshat]

I also use deodorant, and I can't imagine why people do not. Just roll it under your arms a few times, is that so difficult?

For some medical situations - yes. But I suspect one can smell a distinctly 'medical' odour in place of the sickly-sweet 'deodorant' odour. So please just patiently bear with people who have a 'medical' smell - it's not a lack of hygiene, honest!

[Lace Neil Singer]

Also, babies. While they're cute and adorable, their strollers are not. Parents, if you can find and use a transit-friendly stroller for your little ones, please use it! I'm sick and tired of having to manoeuver around the SUVs of the stroller industry!

The bus drivers round my neck of the woods won't let those giant buggies on the bus, cuz they block the fire exit. They only allow the fold up umbrella buggies cuz they can be folded up and put in the luggage bit. I've witnessed several ding dongs where a woman with a giant, Volkswagon Beetle sized buggy has been told she can't come on the bus, complete with hysterical screams from the mother. All to no avail. They always have to get off and go to the taxi rank instead.

Another bus story; back when I was a teenager, I sometimes took the family dog to the next town to walk in the lovely park there.* Since my dog was so well behaved, the bus driver would often waive the fee to take her on the bus. She sat on the seat next to me to protect her feet from clumsy people, and several times, some cat butt faced person would bitch about my dog taking up a seat. I'd just reply, "I paid for her seat, she has a right to sit there and she's better behaved than you'll ever be!"

Even tho I often didn't pay for her, that was cuz the bus driver waived the fee and technically, I'd still paid for two seats.

*I live in that town now, and still go walking in the lovely park.

[Kit-Ginevra]

I hate it when I start off nice and clean and showered.After 2 hours on a hot sweltering train packed with 50 other people,some of whom haven't got such wonderful habits then I'm not going to be so pine fresh as when I started off...