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I have a smelly passenger

  • 15-07-2014 9:07pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭


    So I have been giving a woman a lift to work recently. Thing is, there is always a banging smell off her in the mornings. I'm not sure if its body odour; its like a musty old smell. I thought about saying something but it might be a tad rude. I've tried putting up loads of Christmas tree air freshners but to no avail. What can I do? :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Blast her with Deoderant?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Buy a roofrack or trailer.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Master




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,950 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Increase your consumption of garlic and onions.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Increase your consumption of garlic and onions.

    I suppose that would be easier than fitting a roofrack.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    I suppose that would be easier than fitting a roofrack.

    Is she a big bird?, into the boot she goes if not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Maybe its her clothes...

    Not much you can do really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Drop your smelly passenger off at the pool!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    In a weird way I think I know what you mean by that "smell" occasionally get it off one or two girls .. Like they get dressed in a vegetable cupboard. Yuck


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,548 ✭✭✭rockbeast


    Stop taking corpses from the morgue and returning them the next day


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Get a better air freshener


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    The thing about smelly people is that they never realise that they are the smelly ones.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    Febreeze.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    What can I do? :(

    Buy a convertible.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Fake your death.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Drive like Ace Ventura.

    Agree with Mauzo, must be smelly clothes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Turn up the radio to cover it up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    piss on the seats of you're car.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    Open a window and stop being such a moaning Michael.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,804 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Drop the hand on her or stab her.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭whupdedo


    Take a big dump in a clear plastic bag and ask her to hold it for you every morning, she'll soon find a new way to work


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Say to her 'Hey, we should shower together some time.'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    You could start a casual conversation about the great deals the supermarkets have on detergents and fabric softeners, if she doesn't take the hint after that she never will, unless of course you just ask her to wash her clothes.

    Every so often I'll pass the same 3 late teens with a toddler in a pram, the reek of stale urine off them would fell an elephant. As soon as I see them I take a deep breath and try not to breathe until I've got to a different aisle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Ask her if she can smell cabbage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    You could start a casual conversation about the great deals the supermarkets have on detergents and fabric softeners, if she doesn't take the hint after that she never will, unless of course you just ask her to wash her clothes.

    Every so often I'll pass the same 3 late teens with a toddler in a pram, the reek of stale urine off them would fell an elephant. As soon as I see them I take a deep breath and try not to breathe until I've got to a different aisle.

    I'm not so sure its her clothes though. Although she does own a lot of cats. She always has cuts and scratches on her hands.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭sleepytrees


    Wear a tinfoil hat in the car and tell her it's cause the aliens are coming.. problem sorted..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    I'm not so sure its her clothes though. Although she does own a lot of cats. She always has cuts and scratches on her hands.

    Cats are probably trying to get away from her :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    Tell her about the Lord


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,426 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Tell her about the Lord

    Which Lord , Lucifer ?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭sleepytrees


    are you sure the smell isn't you like..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Vision of Disorder


    Buy a convertible.

    You'll possibly attract a more looks conscious strain of women workmate with a flasher car too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    are you sure the smell isn't you like..

    No it only arrives when she gets into the car and dissipates upon her departure.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    Which Lord , Lucifer ?

    Yer man with the beard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Have an almighty feed of beans for your breakfast that will get her out of your car :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭stoeger


    Could be the cats spraying on her clothes I loned a back pack to a mate with 7-9 cats it came back with some pong off it


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Yer man with the beard

    Mohammed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    snuurf the seat after she gets out of the car


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Slip a tube of Vagiclean in her handbag when she's not looking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,426 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    pablo128 wrote: »
    Slip a tube of Vagiclean in her handbag when she's not looking.

    I don't think the bang is off her handbag.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,911 ✭✭✭bradlente


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    So I have been giving a woman a lift to work recently. Thing is, there is always a banging smell off her in the mornings. I'm not sure if its body odour; its like a musty old smell. I thought about saying something but it might be a tad rude. I've tried putting up loads of Christmas tree air freshners but to no avail.What can I do? :(


    Have you tried hanging them off her ears?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    So I have been giving a woman a lift to work recently. Thing is, there is always a banging smell off her in the mornings. I'm not sure if its body odour; its like a musty old smell. I thought about saying something but it might be a tad rude. I've tried putting up loads of Christmas tree air freshners but to no avail. What can I do? :(

    A true story -

    Was getting the 83 into town one day 3 or 4 years ago, in Summer. As I'm sitting there gawping out the window, I'm hit with a smell so foul I automatically looked to see if I could open a window. Then I looked around and noticed (a) the source - a woman of about 50 heading towards the fromt of the bus and (b) saw them across from me, across and behind me, and the ones in front of me all showing the same reaction. The waftiest most horrific smell of gowel I've ever been hit with in me life (though it took a few seconds to realise that's what it was).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    I don't think the bang is off her handbag.
    Well he could just hand it to her then. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone. It'll clear up her little 'problem', and she'll be too embarassed to look for a lift again.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    FearDark wrote: »
    The thing about smelly people is that they never realise that they are the smelly ones.

    They must have no sense of smell then!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 569 ✭✭✭Funnyonion79


    Maybe it's damp clothes? Like maybe she dries her clothes inside the house and they don't dry properly or air properly, so they're still a bit damp when she puts them away. They'll smell musty when she wears them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,426 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    petes wrote: »
    They must have no sense of smell then!

    Unless they're dead.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Misread as "I have a smelly passage."

    Smelly passenger though... that's much more difficult to resolve.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    Tell her you got a new job then go a different route to work and try to avoid her seeing you all day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,708 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Start sniffing the air, don't say anything, just sniff occasionally and if she doesn't get the message after a couple of days, start asking "what's that smell, is it something outside??"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Fight fire with fire, cover yourself in excriment and piss op and the passenger wont be long getting the hint.


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