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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I once bought a pair of deck shoe-style "trainers" for a poundI wore them for one day - nothing too strenuous, just tatting about town - then went home, where I took up my usual position on the sofa next to my roommate for a spliff.
"What's that smell?" he asks.
"I dunno," I say, nervously sniffing around for the source of any nasty odour - this was university, mind, so it could literally have been anything. Eventually I bent down and realised that the obnoxious odour was coming from my feet. Without thinking, I took off the cheap tatty footwear and the most unholy stench filled the room, causing my poor roommate to run for cover. I had to leave both the trainers and my socks outside the window that night, and even after a shower I had to sleep with my duvet propped up at the bottom and firmly pulled tight at the top, as the smell of my own feet was keeping me awake.
Never buy cheap shoes, it's not worth it.
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 22 Mar 2007, 17:01,
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