(03 Nov 2014, 7:23 pm)aureolin wrote There's always one whenever I'm on a bus. Always tends to want to sit in the row in front of or behind me too!
It's interesting, because the conditions state: "We reserve the right to refuse entry and travel of any person onto our buses and coaches if that person is considered to be undesirable, a security or safety risk, or with a poor level of personal hygiene.". I've never seen it enforced like.
Do you think that people can detect their own body odours?
I mention this because, when I was a pre-school child, I would often accompany my father (the man from the Prudential) as he went around collecting the insurance premiums from people's houses.
Each house had its own 'smell' - not necessarily unpleasant - and as a young child I was aware of the differences.
As many houses that we visited were farms, inevitably some had animal smells - or simply from the wood or peat that was being burned in the range (I'm talking late 1940s north Tyne here).
I have an acquaintance (a single man now living alone since his mother died) who does have a strong 'unpleasant' smell when I travel with him on the bus (though I don't have the guts to tell him that he should do something about it).