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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Smelly customers and filthy housematesI'll start with the customers. I work for a games retailer, so as you'd expect, some of our clientèle are hardcore, reeking, geeks.
There's a particular couple that come in once every few weeks, both of whom are large, look sort of like bikers, and fucking stink.
They smell so bad that after being in the store for 20 minutes on a hot summer's day last year, my manager emptied almost a full can of air freshener, only to find the place still stank for hours. Horrible.
As for the housemate, I'm coming to the end of my first year at uni, and I'm living with two blokes I've known for years now. One of them is clean enough, but the other... there is a distinct pile in our kitchen of filthy dishes and mugs, that've been there for almost 2 weeks, and he refuses to clean them. Much to my disbelief, there was even a mug of Coke with mold growing on it - given what Coke does to nails and coins, I'm shocked anything could live on it.
Anyway, he went over to Scotland this week, so in his absence, we put them all in his bed. His problem now!
(, Fri 23 Mar 2007, 15:22, Reply)
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