What makes a bus smell like a bus?

[Crackle]

As I walked past a bus stop today, one pulled up and opened it's doors. I was instantly assailed by odour d'bus. It's unmistakable. If I'd had my eyes and ears shut I'd still have known a bus had just opened it's doors.

So why does a bus smell like a bus?

 

[ianrauk]

Because it's full of smelly commuters sitting in a bus that was probrably used as a night bus so previously full of drunkards eating chips and kebabs whilst puking and pissing over the seats.

 

[dan_bo]

BO and diesel- It used to get masked by the smell of fags. At least on the top deck.

 

[Bigtwin]

Diesel, sweat, piss, dead skin, snot, semen, farts, stinking feet, blood and spit would be the main elements I would think.

Remember that programme where they swabbed the seats and poles on the tube to see what was on them? Lovely.

 

[Globalti]

It's why you should wash your hands the minute you get home or into your office.

 

[Bigtwin]

It's why you should wash your hands the minute you get home or into your office.

My home's much worse than that, and the office is in the living room.

 

[tordis]

Sweat and takeaways, IMO.

 

[661-Pete]

I can still remember, fondly, the long-defunct British trolleybus. It smelt quite different from a diesel bus: there was a definite suggestion of ozone or something like it on the upper deck: whether from sparking from the overhead wires I don't know. Maybe it was the grease applied to the trolley wheels on the ends of the pick-up poles. Anyway: much preferred to the smell of diesel, I used to climb to the top deck from choice, smokers notwithstanding.

 

[snorri]

Not all bus interiors smell the same, it depends on the area.

 

[Dayvo]

BO and diesel- It used to get masked by the smell of fags. At least on the top deck.

Ah, now I understand your forum name! What part of the body is ´dan´, though!