A tourist refused to move her 'smelly' feet off the headrest of the seat in front of her on a bus
This might qualify as the "smelliest" bus ride 21-year-old Narong Thaopanya has ever taken. The Thai citizen recently travelled by bus from Bangkok to Sukhothai province in northern Thailand. That's a 427-kilometre journey that takes roughly six hours by road. But it turned out to be a particularly gruelling trip after a tourist seated in the row behind Mr Thaopanya insisted on using the headrest of the empty seat next to him as a place to rest her feet. Her sock-clad, allegedly "smelly" feet. Mr Thaopanya took a series of pictures and video of the situation and uploaded them on Facebook where they eventually went viral.
Since being uploaded on Facebook on April 6, the video has been viewed over 163,000 times. Mr Thaopanya earlier uploaded a series of pictures, presumably after his trip, on March 30.
According to a message in Thai, accompanying the post, Mr Thaopanya wrote what can be translated as: "This woman was beautiful but she had no manners. The smell from her feet filled the whole bus. It was hot and made me feel sick...because her feet were next to my head."
"I asked her many times to put her feet down but she would not do it. She just kept them there."
"Somebody will have to use the seat and put their head where her dirty feet have been," he cautioned.
"Would she have done this in her own country?" he asked. "People should be more respectful when they are visitors to other people's countries."
Of course many are asking why Mr Thaopanya did not get up and move to a different seat as the bus appears to be relatively empty. Many are also wondering whether it was simply a cultural misunderstanding. After all, pointing your feet at someone, raising them above a person's head, or putting them on a table or chair are traditionally considered rude in Thailand.
Either way, it's probably best to be respectful of people around you - especially if you're going to be stuck in an enclosed space for a few hours on a hot, sweaty day.
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