I took many modes of public transit today, including the free shuttle to the train station in San Jose. When I ride that shuttle, I try to sit near the front because it's a tight connection to the baby bullet train. The bus was pretty empty when I got on and sat right behind the driver. I was surprised when at the next stop an older guy got on and instead of sitting in the empty back sat right beside me. Not a big deal, but as he sat down I got a whiff of kool-aid smell and then something chemically underneath that smell. The weird grunting he made about half way through the ride really had me wishing he had sat elsewhere and one of the younger, more attractive non-kool-aid smelling men had been able to sit beside me.
The bus ride from the train station also was marked by the sense of smell. Two little girls were sitting with their mom across from me. One had a paper heart covering her nose and the other had a small strip of paper in front of her nostrils. I had no idea what they were. Some kind of H1N1 protection? An arts and crafts project? One of the girls was following asleep - maybe it was to prevent drool? The older girl pulled down her strip and twisted it around so that I could read it said Estee Lauder. They were perfume samples!
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