I'd go so far as to say, nobody cares what strangers look like, they care what they smell like.
I don't remember so many bad smelling people on the transit in the past. Or perhaps it's just that I'm somehow attracting them. And we aren't talking people who look bad, they look well dressed and groomed. Aughhhh
Has your locale gotten the same hotter-than-usual summer that I did in Ohio? If so, well-dressed = overdressed for the heat levels = unintended elevated sweating = acutely smelly but recently showered co-riders. Or at least that sounds plausible.
More evidence that I'm some sort of alien changeling on this planet. I care less than most people do about what people smell like, and more to the point, what I do care about is not natural odors (except in truly extreme cases), it's artificial ones. I find pretty much all fragrance products abhorrent. If you don't have time to shower, I'd much rather you not try to cover it up with perfume.
Agreed. Another unnatural odor I prefer to avoid is tobacco. It tends to be really bad in certain types of clothing. There really ought to be a law against smokers wearing wool sweaters. Also, it gets in their hair. Of natural odors, the one I'm annoyed by most is cat. When people smell like cat, close proximity can sometimes trigger a violent allergic reaction. Next after that, it's about an even tie between a ripe dead animal and a fish market. I've encountered people who smell like both of those things.
And sound like. Smell and hearing are pretty close to impossible to surpress, so both the perfume- or tobacco-laden and the non-stop gum-popper or potty mouth force you to either endure or leave, and sometimes you can't leave. And all of these are things they could avoid doing if they wanted to.
It's why I became a philosophy girl. The philosophy scents aren't overpowering. Pure Grace may be my favorite - it smells clean, like plain soap & water, not flowery or anything like that.
Some perfumes or colognes make you want to bust out of an elevator because they are so overwhelming! Gack!
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I don't remember so many bad smelling people on the transit in the past. Or perhaps it's just that I'm somehow attracting them. And we aren't talking people who look bad, they look well dressed and groomed. Aughhhh
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Some perfumes or colognes make you want to bust out of an elevator because they are so overwhelming! Gack!
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