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 live in Italyin a little (has only 12 shoe shops) place called Siena, not far from Pisa.
And at certain times of the evening I will do anything to avoid having to get the bus. The reason? One guy who gets on the same bus as me to go home carries around this godawful fusty smell with him, and it permeates throughout the entire bus, no matter where you sit. I don't know when the last time he washed was, but that's not all. He will latch himself on to any random person at the bus stop (fortunately he's never done it to me as I don't look Italian, but my Greek roommate wasn't so lucky).
To put the icing on the cake, he kind of looks like Freddy Kruger: either he has the world's biggest red birthmark, which spreads across his entire face, or else he got burnt at some point in his life. So, we have a guy who likes to get in your face, who smells beyond funky and who my roommate has dubbed The Elephant Man.
I want to move.
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Maladicta, Tue 27 Mar 2007, 17:24,
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