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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Lunch anyone?Being a priest I have to put up with a lot of things my parishioners suffer with but someone who I met a while back really took the smelly biscuit.
Many years ago at college I knew someone who was a bit lacking in the brains department but was a nice enough chap. I'll call him Jason for reasons of anonymity even though his name was actually Pete Wainwright. Anyway, we occasionally took the mickey out of Jason because he didn't get any of our jokes immediately, didn't do particularly well in his classes, etc but like I said, he was a fairly decent fellow and went along with our banter with pretty good humour.
Unfortunately, what I didn't know was that Jason had a problem and it was something he could do very little about. There's a quite rare disease known as 'trimethylaminuria' which has the rather unpleasent symptom that the sufferer smells of fish. See www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc99/5_15_99/bob2.htm for more details.
So when I decided to sit next to him for lunch one day and said, "What the fuck have you got in those skanky sandwiches? It smells like fish shit!", it didn't go down well. He didn't really talk to me afterwards.
Sorry Pete.
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Fr_Jerry_McGwier looked over both shoulders at, Fri 23 Mar 2007, 22:44,
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