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 think the worst I've been......was the whole teenager with dirty fingernails and a bit of knob-cheese. The worst I have experienced, was much, much lower than that. And it involves a bit of piss, which is always fun.
I remember it vividly. It was Scout Camp, and we would have been about 13. To protect the not-so-innocent, I'll call him Bob. Bob was well known for being quite rough and ready - he came from a relatively well-to-do family, but he just never seemed to wash.
During one particular night-hike, Bob needed to take a wee, so he did. Talking to us while he did (why? for the love of God why?) he managed to urinate over his t-shirt and trousers. Well done him.
Naturally he grumbled about being damp the whole walk back, and we suitably chided him for it. At camp, we split ways, and just assumed that he would go have a shower.
Oh no.
For the next three days he wore the same shirt, and the same trousers. No one ever saw him anywhere near the shower block, and I don't think it really occurred to anyone to approach him, or at least not until the Scoutmaster (not knowing about the piss misdirection incident) asked him why he was wearing the same clothes three days straight.
"They're the only ones I brought, sir."
Nice. And he didn't even think to wash them.
(, Thu 22 Mar 2007, 18:33, Reply)
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