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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Laminated HairWhen she was 16 I noticed my (deaf, autistic) cousin's hair was starting to look a little, well, scuzzy. Bit too shiny. But she always had a shower every day and blow-dried her hair so I thought it was just too much serum or whatever. Then one day she asked me to trim off the split ends after she'd washed her hair. As I tried to get a comb through her hair I was overcome by the whiff of months-old oiliness and great big clumps of dandruff. I asked her how the hell she was washing her hair and she pulled out a copy of Cosmopolitan , pointing out the bit that said "Use only a small amount of shampoo, the size of a 10p piece. Anything more is a waste." After much (crappily signed) explanation from me regarding how Cosmopolitan is about as trustworthy as a paedo in Adams I had a go at washing EIGHTEEN MONTHS worth of grease and skin flakes out. It took almost 2/3rds of the Head and Shoulders bottle to finally rinse it all out.
(, Sat 24 Mar 2007, 22:24, Reply)
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