Personal HygieneThere comes a point at which your hygiene becomes less your problem and more everyone else's:
My old school nurse never seemed to wash - instead she wrapped herself in crepe bandages from the first aid kits. The smell was beyond pungent. If you got ill at school, it was better to suffer than try and explain symptoms whilst only breathing out.
When she was eventually 'let go',they had to strip the wallpaper in her office to get rid of the lingering odour.
How scuzzy have you got? Or, failing that, how bad have people you know got?
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chthonic, Thu 22 Mar 2007, 12:40)
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PlaneI fly a lot (as those of you that know me will know) - but I fly on a little 29 seater turboprop.
I always try to get the individual seat as I don't like sitting next to someone who will, inevitably, try to engage me in conversation - not good when all I want to do is sleep....
Anyhoo - a couple of times I've found myself sat next to someone who might have been on an oilrig for a few weeks/months/years/decades - and who is unfamiliar with personal hygiene.
You can only hold your breath for so long... And they always smell of oil, BO, piss, shit and anything else they might have been dragged through - and that's before you smell his breath - and he's bound to turn to you and say something lewd about the air hostess and then you see his teeth too.
When you've been sat next to such a person for an hour, you feel very, very dirty - I've often showered the moment I've gotten home as you find yourself paranoid about the smell from the guy coming off on to you. Bleugh.
(, Thu 22 Mar 2007, 14:34, Reply)
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