I was on the tube and the carriage was empty. A large man got on and had to sit right by me and spead himself into my space. WHY! When the rest of the car was full. I did not want to more as he would have had a victory. Can I get a can of very bad BO smell to release in these situations to make people move?
2006-10-25 06:30:59 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
My mistake the rest of the car was empty not full!
2006-10-25 06:32:02 · update #1
Best advice just move away
Or make a fake phone call and explain that the skin infection you have is highly infectious and you should avoid close contact with people.. see what happen's Ha Ha!
2006-10-25 06:39:31 · answer #1 · answered by Rav #03 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I would have got out at the next stop, giving every indication that this was my intention all along. I would then have slipped into the next carriage and this horrid man would never have known that in fact he had won! I once saw a man being horribly beaten up on the tube by a bully whom he had politely asked to stop smoking (it was on the platform after they had both got off, so it was impossible to intervene) and it has haunted me ever since.
2006-10-25 10:11:13 · answer #2 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
strike up a conversation with them - about anything.
"Don't you think the walls of the tube tunnel are a particularly lovely shade of grey today, I especially like the way the cables run along the walls, don't you? It's been a beautiful day hasn't it? My wife's got a lesbian lover you know, she's had her for a while now, she thinks I don't know, but I do. I have them on tape. Petrol's getting dearer isn't it?" that kind of thing - just don't stop talking for a second, but direct questions at them.
Works every time. And when they let you out of the asylum you can do it again and again.
2006-10-25 06:45:41 · answer #3 · answered by Phlodgeybodge 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I usually move from self preservation. I understand your desire to use the smell can, but that would be 'assault' if he chose to press it. If you EVER figure out what it is that makes people like that do that, please publish the answer somewhere everyone can see - because most of us want to know, and the others NEED to know! (So they won't do it anymore!)
It's probably too late by the time they sit down to pretend you're crazy, but that would be fun: mumble under your breath, like it's a checklist: bottle...rope...hair dye...butcher knife... or other random things! (Just be careful they don't get you for a terrorist)
2006-10-25 06:36:15 · answer #4 · answered by Baby'sMom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha, Ha Hi was probably gay!
But, I do understand you. i would do just that, you can buy..like bottled farts in joke shops..Do it and let me know how it went?
By the way, I live in Switzerland. It used to piss me off in autumn. I had to get the tram every morning. The tram comes, I got on ,dressed in a T-shirt, I mean it was not so cold..All the Swiss people huddled in their warm coats and scarfs, the heating on..like in the tropics...everyone standing there ..bored..lookin' around, noone talking..so I thought f*** this, I mean I could not breath, I mean with the smell of half digested breakfast salami, garlic bread, stale beer und stinking arm pit odours, so , I opened a window. Everyone looked at me as though i was mad. And then, I had a kinda rumbling feeling in my bowels....and i thought oh no, I cannot do this..or ?...(I had been out on a bender the night before).Hi, hi it was one of those slighty wet and silent ones (beer fart)..the one's that stink like those cocktails in chemistry at school..f***. a wonder I can remember that now..lol, iron filings and sulphuric acid...ugh..enough to make the hardest puke their insides out!
Anyway it happened...lol...it took about 20 seconds..lol...and others started opening windows, coughing, looking around and talking.
I stood there, unperturbed a slight smurk on my face...and thought....tü tü tü tüüüüüüüü!
2006-10-25 06:49:41 · answer #5 · answered by Gary H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have either moved or start talking about my, just been to the Dr and you have a highly contagious tummy bug or start coughing and sneezing,you could even try just scratching all over,but i think you can still buy stink bombs from a joke shop.....
2006-10-25 06:47:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wierdo - the are millions of them on the tube, they do it on purpose to get a reaction. Just get up and move. Not responding annoys them, because your not giving them what they want.
2006-10-25 06:44:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best thing is to say excuse me and move to another seat, simple as that, I am a weirdo magnet, they always want to sit next to me or talk to me, I hate public transport and I do not drive.
2006-10-25 06:40:28 · answer #8 · answered by jizzi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some people have no awareness of the personal space of others. they are very 'thick skinned'. also he may have got close for safety, a natural animal instinct. i suggest you just get up and move away.
2006-10-25 22:08:10 · answer #9 · answered by minerva 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just get up and move. Some people are just rude and you have to expect that once in a while. To do something equally rude back to them only puts you on their level. Respect yourself.
2006-10-25 06:34:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋