"Unfresh" People, Does It Bother You?

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Today I was at work and I kept picking up this reek of sweat. Some of our customers are back to nature and deodorant is bad kind of people. Then I got it again. Sometimes especially among the disabled and dementia folk, their hygiene can be lacking...enough to worry about I suppose. Then again woof, it was bad. Turns out it was one of the young front end guys. Nicely dressed and groomed but he smelled like a goat.

If it isn't about poverty. Even the dollar stores have good deodorant. Then who's place is it to say something?
 

Yes it does. Once a man standing beside me smelled of garlic so strongly like it was oozing out of every pore and I actually had to move away from him. I feel for elderly people who cannot wash themselves properly. Must be tough. But for everyone else I agree making contact with skin, soap and water can only help a person to smell fresh.
 
Yes it does, to the extent that I have left a store rather than be served by a particular assistant, and have discreetly asked to be moved to a different table in a restaurant.
 

I can't stand being funky and dislike being around those that are.

There was a healthy, mid 30's 'field tech. rep.' where I worked that came into my office one morning, who people talked about having a odor, that reeked of BO.

With me never being one to mince on words I looked him straight in the eye and said, "Tim you have a serious body odor problem that you need to address and until you do I'd appreciate it if you would stay out of my office, for anything business related either contact me by telephone or Interoffice Memo.".......he stood up, glared at me a few seconds and then stormed out of my office without saying a word.

He was terminated aprox. two weeks later for driving a company vehicle and being pulled over for driving under the influence alcohol........problem solved, no more Tim no more stench.
 
Yes it bothers me. I have been behind some unfresh persons in the grocery store line and had to back up some so that I didn't throw up; my stomach can't take stuff like that for too long. I have wondered how people can go around smelling like that until my mom had cancer and she developed a smell like that from not bathing and I couldn't get her to take a bath. When she went into hospice, however, the nurses got her into the shower. It's hard to tell why people smell like that.
 
Wait until you get close up and personal with a few Amish folks! Combination of week old human sweat ,horse sweat manure and just general funk. There is one guy in particular that you can tell how many days he has worn his shirt by counting the sweat rings. Of course it is not all of them, most have absolutely no compunction against coming directly from the barn into civilization.
Always entertaining to see a couple full grown Amish men waiting in line flipping through a Cosmopolitan, giggling like a couple of school boys.
 
Robusta said:
Wait until you get close up and personal with a few Amish folks! Combination of week old human sweat ,horse sweat manure and just general funk. There is one guy in particular that you can tell how many days he has worn his shirt by counting the sweat rings. Of course it is not all of them, most have absolutely no compunction against coming directly from the barn into civilization.
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With that being the case I'm surprised that there are any Amish left.....I can't imagine any woman wanting to get nekkid and bump tummies with a fella that smelt like a horses patootie.
 
Can't stand a whiffy person around me! In Uganda the people are poor and aren't going to spend money on deodorant. BO is a very common smell. It's not bad if it's the sweat since bathing in the morning, but the sweat that says they haven't washed in a week that will knock you down!
 
About a year ago, we hopped a flight back from Las Vegas, and the person sitting in our row reeked of booze and BO. It was pretty obvious that he had spent little time in the shower. THAT was the Longest 2 hour flight we have ever taken.
 
I can't stand being near people who have a strong smell of cigarette smoke and they try to cover up,the smell ( stink IMO) with body sprays or perfume ..it's far worse than BO or garlic IMO
 
Strong body odor does affect me and can have a gag-reflex reaction if extreme. But I do understand that some elderly people, or those who suffer physical or mental illness may not bathe regularly. I once had to deal with a man at work who was very nice, but his odor was always strong. I came to find out that he was allergic to the soaps available in the stores, and he was older, so probably didn't try to pursue any natural remedies. He may not have even been aware that he was offending those around him.
 
I can't stand being near people who have a strong smell of cigarette smoke and they try to cover up,the smell ( stink IMO) with body sprays or perfume ..it's far worse than BO or garlic IMO

I remember that when I went back to school late in life. I enjoyed people watching the young students and comparing how times had changed. One pattern that hadn't changed was guys who came to early morning classes. Possibly they didn't do regular laundry or bathing. Instead they would put themselves in a cloak of body spray. Great, Axe with the subtle under notes of sweaty lumberjack.
 
I didn't notice it in the workplace, except for a few heavy smokers who reeked of tobacco smoke. I don't notice it on public transit either, maybe people who are too far gone to wash usually don't to go out much, or don't live around me. However, in one public library I used to frequent on my lunch hour, there were some pretty ripe smelling old timers sitting around or sleeping in the chairs, but the libraries are now discouraging people using it as a rest stop.
 
My former sister-in-law was very much overweight. She said she took two showers a day, and still couldn't stay fresh. She was overweight because my brother treated her so badly. Eventually she left him and lost a bunch of weight. Some people just can't help how they smell.

One of the nice things about age is that the sense of smell starts going away. Things that used to bother me a lot no longer do because the nose is on the fritz.
 
Don M. said:
About a year ago, we hopped a flight back from Las Vegas, and the person sitting in our row reeked of booze and BO. It was pretty obvious that he had spent little time in the shower. THAT was the Longest 2 hour flight we have ever taken.
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Happened to my wife on a flight once. A large, overweight guy got on reeking of booze and cigarettes, body odor, and then proceeded to take his shoes off and pass out in his seat. A horrible flight she told me.
 
There's another one almost worse than body odor. Maybe it's people who don't know how to do laundry so well...But the other day there was a guy, he didn't appear to be homeless or ill or anything. But there was a smell of mildew so strong. Nobody wanted to go near the checkout until the smell dispersed. It made you gag, like an old camping tent fished out of a dumpster. If they smell like that and body odor people might attack them with air freshener.
 
I remember many years ago when I worked at the little used bookstore, there was an old man who lived up the road in one of those town subsidized "group homes", where a few elderly men lived, who would walk to the store each week and buy something used, a few cents here and there.

It started suddenly. Now, whenever Stanley would come in he brought a strong, foul and disgusting smell. Customers would leave. I would spray cologne on a tissue to hold to my nose. It went on for a few weeks. I of course complained to the owner right away and he questioned Stanley but the poor man seemed to not understand and assured the owner he showered daily.

Finally, my boss called someone in charge of the group-home and learned that Stanley had gotten himself a little part time job cleaning up at a small, local farm that had sheep. When Stanley shoveled sheep manure, some of it would fall into the cuffs of his pants and then he would walk down to our bookstore! Omg, it smelled awful!
 
Good morning to all- Many years ago I taught school in a tiny little consolidated public school in the Arkansas Ozarks. We had a wide mix of students and families there- long-timers, newcomers- it was at the highest point of the "back to Nature" movement.
One family of kids at this school- there was a kid born to this bunch every nine months and fifteen minutes apart- started out the year with no personal problems. As the year went on and winter deepened, the kids began to stink. I mean a combination of wood smoke, body odor and old pee. It was hard to stay in the room with them, and the other kids started to complain.
I asked the principal if we could do something. He explained.
This bunch had moved in to the hills to get away from trouble somewhere else. The kids all slept together in an old unheated bus body. After it got cold, the creeks froze, so they couldn't take baths or wash their clothes. there were kids from 18 years old to toddlers sleeping together to keep warm, so of course, they smelled of pee- they slept in it. They lived on wild onions and goat's milk mostly, except for the school breakfasts and lunches.
We got the kids in PE classes so they could at least take a shower every day, and that helped, but they still smelled.
Point of story: sometimes people stink because they can't help it. those kids didn't get to choose where and how they lived, they had to deal with it.
Nobody died from being around these kids, and after a while, nobody noticed.
good day to all- Ed
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OMG -does BO ever offend me! ABSOLUTELY!

I think it is an ethnic thing. Folks from some other countries don't seem to know anything about personal hygiene. Maybe they don't have soap and deodorant commercials in their countries? I got stuck in line at a grocery store behind a couple of swarthy-looking guys. Whew! Stinkum Plenty! Yikes! If I hadn't already been in line so long, I would have moved to another line. Their ghastly smell even stayed around for awhile after they left. :upset:
 

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