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
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.
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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Date: 2011-10-07 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-07 02:13 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2011-10-07 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-08 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-08 07:18 am (UTC)Some perfumes or colognes make you want to bust out of an elevator because they are so overwhelming! Gack!
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Date: 2011-10-09 07:37 pm (UTC)