Dear stinky guy sitting in front of me on the bus:

[Brigid]

Take a shower. That is all.

[benld74]

1. BAck in the day, when I was working grocery store in HS,

every week a guy would come in, a farmer, single, smoking stogies, RIPE beyond words. He would slowly walk the aisles purchasing his groceries, leaving his smell everywhere.
The checker decided to try something, she bought some bar soap, and slipped it into one of his bags while he was checking out.
Though the next week, it was more of the same.

[Jenoch]

10. Your farmer probably had pig shit on his boots.

I remember when I was in the first grade, a classmate and I got our rubber overshoes mixed up (yes, kids wore these to school in the wintertime). We easily figured out which were which. His smelled like pig shit and mine did not. He was a farm kid.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

2. If he's homeless, maybe he doesn't have a shower?

[Brigid]

4. He doesn't have that look about him.

Though admittedly you can never tell.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

5. That's very true

My 16 year old son has some friends that live in million dollar houses and still stink.

[Jenoch]

11. It's probably stinky clothes.

I had a roommate in college who showered every day. He smelled because he did not do his laundry often enough.

[tonekat]

14. Well, it's a known fact that

...all teenage boys smell like goats.

[olddots]

3. I used to love the smell of the people on subway trains in Manhatten

Jungle Gardenia and Old Spice ,cigars and the musky scent of wine -o s in the morning .that stagnant air ,chewing gum and Chock Full Of Nuts coffee , donuts and the urine soaked floors ......... ya had to be there .

[madinmaryland]

6. Yeah, the trains were fine in the morning, but late afternoon on humid July/August

afternoons, especially when the a/c on the trains had died...

[In_The_Wind]

7. I was there ...

many years ago.

[SwissTony]

8. I used to travel on the bus to my work and the seat next to me was often vacant.

At the next stop, a woman would board and for some reason, would often sit next to me. She was a very pleasant woman, friendly, well dressed. But she smelled like she smoked 60 a day. Never BO, just ciggies.

Bah.

[TrogL]

9. They don't have showers at my workplace

[Brigid]

13. I thought about that too.

But somehow he didn't look like he had just gotten off work at some dirty, smelly job either.

[Chan790]

12. I used to work in a foundry.

We had showers at work even but it doesn't matter, there is no way to work in a foundry and not leave smelling like you just spent the last 10 hours sweating through your uniform in 100'F heat standing over a 1300'F furnace.

I never got to know any of the people on my bus route but I felt terrible for them because I could smell me.