Showing posts with label bus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bus. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

All the names were taken

You have no idea how hard it is to start a blog...
For days I had been planning to do this, and I had my title all picked out, -- "Socks and Sandals," a little esoteric, but I liked it -- but as luck would have it, the name was already taken. So I go with backup choices: "I Hate Blogs," "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" -- get it?, "I Hate Pants," etc. All taken. Then, like all people looking for an original idea, I chose to draw from personal experience...

So today after work, I got on the bus, and an elderly man got on after me. He seemed like the average, nice old German gentleman, but then he sat in the seat next where I was standing. That's when I noticed his smell. I mean, I'm pretty much O.K. with most body odor (although the more time I spend in the U.S., the more sensitive I become to it when I return to Germany), but this was no ordinary body odor. It smelled like this man hadn't showered in a month, hadn't changed his clothes in a month, and whenever he took of his clothes, he must have left them in a warm, dark, damp place.

You know there's regular BO, and then there's that kind that just makes you gag? Like not even a stronger version of BO type 1, but just entirely different. Like when you leave your clothes in the washing machine too long and they start to smell, but 100x worse?

I would've gotten off the bus earlier, but I was too lazy to walk 7 blocks to where I had to go, so I just stood there. I though about breathing through my mouth, but I mean, those smelly particles he was eminating, even at N ppm, would still have entered my body. Gross.