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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Work, public transport and schoolThese seem to be the main areas of encountering such awful scents or experiences.
I myself have come up against all three.
Work - we used to have a very smelly lady in our office. As one of the team managers, a lot of the junior staff used to come to me and complain about the smell of afore-mentioned unwashed woman and the fact that even when she wasn't there, her chair stank too. In the end, us managers went to the section head and he had Smelly in for a chat...
Working in HR you get some classic cases as well - we disciplined a man who once took a shit behind a bush whilst on duty because a load of parents & kids saw him and their parents complained.
There were 3 token smelly kids at school who no-one ever wanted to sit by. Mysteriously they all lived on the "poor" estate as well. Urgh, they bloody stunk of faecal matter, wee and cats / dogs / horses / guinea pigs (you name it) - even the teachers held them in disregard and openly used sitting next to them as a punishment.
(, Tue 27 Mar 2007, 0:40, Reply)
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