Public Transport TraumaCompletely Underwhelmed writes, "I was on a bus the other day when a man got on wearing shorts, over what looked like greeny grey leggings. Then the stench hit me. The 'leggings' were a mass of open wounds, crusted with greenish solidified pus that flaked off in bits as he moved."
What's the worst public transport experience you've ever had?
(
chthonic, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:13)
« Go Back
Stinky Portuguese busWhen I was a student in the 90s, I spent a month in Lisbon on a Portuguese course. One day some of us went to to the beaches at Caparica for the day on a nice, cheap bus.
On the way back in the evening, some guy got on carrying a bucket. It wasn't until he plonked himself next to me that I realised he must have been a fish stall holder and his bucket contained whatever he hadn't sold that day. And judging by the stink of it, it must have spent the whole day sitting in the sun. It smelt so foul you could taste in it the air.
I survived the journey by putting my head right next to the high window and taking desperate gulps of air every time the bus moved and clamping my mouth shut every tile it stopped. Finally arrived in Lisbon half dead and gasping for breath.
(, Wed 4 Jun 2008, 21:21, Reply)
« Go Back