Body Odor

try to stay away from any odors regardless if body or cologne......... many in an office left cologne smell for a long time after they left most body odor leaves with who brought it.
when i was on one of my first jobs the manager did not know how to approach a co-worker with some body odor issues and asked me to do it..... no thanks that is what management is suppose to do..... but i knew he would screw it up so i took kid aside and let him know nicely was pretty cool about it and said he was not aware and thanks.
 
Dave and I were on a plane. We. Try to get opposing aisle seats. Guy who sat next to him smelled to high heaven. Like he hadn’t bathed ever. The stench! Poor Dave was ready to throw up. Couldn’t get off that plane fast enough.

When I was teaching, we had a sub who had terrible BO. And she also needed a better bra. A deadly combination for cutting remarks from the kids.
 
My son was travelling on a bus recently and he said a derelict man got on. He was filthy and had food all down the front of him. He smelled so bad and people began to move away. He got off the bus after a couple of stops. You can't say anything to these people as they might turn on you, and who knows they might be carrying a knife..
 
When my 86 year old Mom was in her prime, she was shopping at the local Pharmacy.

A man who reeked of body odor walked by her in the aisle and when he wasn't looking, she slipped a deodorant stick into his shopping cart! :LOL:
 
Della said:
The only time I've had to get up and move was in a restaurant when a woman sat down at the table next to us and her perfume was so strong it was making all our food taste like the perfume.
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That is one of the things that makes me wanna puke... when you're given a glass or a cup , and it still smells of someone's overpowering perfume or aftershave
 
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Try being on a New York City subway train where everyone is crammed in like sardines. It's in the summer, everybody is coming from work, and they are perspiring, and the train stops or is stalled between stops. You set or stand there, breathing in yours and everyone else's body odor.

There was an episode of Seinfeld, where the same thing happened to Elaine. She's screaming to herself in her thoughts about the stalled train and the smelly people around her. I always laugh when I watch it and it is happening to someone else. I think of the old Bill Clinton line. "I feel your pain".
 
The body odor of some people has caused me to change seats in theaters. So will other boorish behaviors, like putting legs over seat backs or talking on cell phones during show performances.

I can also remember being in a pizza restaurant during the heat of summer when some genius brought in a team of teenage boys to celebrate their latest victory, fresh off the sweltering playing field. They were rank, and their collective body odor spoiled my meal for sure… 🙀
 
Paladin1950 said:
Try being on a New York City subway train where everyone is crammed in like sardines. It's in the summer, everybody is coming from work, and they are perspiring, and the train stops or is stalled between stops. You set or stand there, breathing in yours and everyone else's body odor.

There was an episode of Seinfeld, where the same thing happened to Elaine. She's screaming to herself in her thoughts about the stalled train and the smelly people around her. I always laugh when I watch it and it is happening to someone else. I think of the old Bill Clinton line. "I feel your pain".
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the London tube is rammed solid with people.. but I can't remember ever smelling BO on anyone...
 
Regular BO never bothered me much. Sometimes you could tell what a person likes to eat or make a good guess on what they did for a living. I could tell the difference between a dairy, pig or sheep farmer. A lot of the old guys that worked outdoors smelled of blackberry brandy and copenhagen. Owners of body shops smelled of lacquer thinner and paint. Mechanics smelled of grease. Filling station attendants smelled of gasoline. It took a month after retiring from a cheese factory for the smell coming from me to disappear. The smells get in your skin and come out of your pores when you sweat.
I don't think many people realize how much perfume and cologne they douse themselves with to cover up these odors, but they make the problem worse.
 
I’m over-sensitive about having body odor, and will ask Ron or one of my kids, “Can you smell me? Should I go change?” When I’ve been exerting myself working in the garden and chasing the grands or some such. I don’t think any of them have EVER told me I had an odor. My kids say I just smell sweet like Mom always smells, Ron tells me repeatedly I only ever smell like flowers, sort of sweet (the soap and body lotion I use) but still, I ask every time! 🤦🏼‍♀️

When I used to smoke I was paranoid about smelling like smoke. For that reason I washed everything I wore, never wore anything twice, had washable jackets for the winter which I washed after every wearing, and the couple of heavy winter coats I wore occasionally I would spray liberally with Febreze after each wearing to neutralize any odor.

I’ve sat next to or even walked by people with cigarette or body odor, and it’s gross. I think the odor comes just as much from unwashed clothing as it does an unwashed or un-deodorized body. Some polyester fabrics absolutely stink when combined with sweat! 🤢
 
A young man once walked up to my teller window in the bank and immediately my nostrils started to quiver until I blurted out, "Grape juice!" His girlfriend started to laugh. She said she was always telling him that, evidently he kept a bottle of it in his truck. It was quite nice!
 
I never wanted to smell like a "bacon lady".
The leftover bacon smell you get after frying bacon. You smell it early in the morning on people, usually ladies. Also on cooks getting off the job. It's not horrible but I'd rather not have everyone know what I had for breakfast. Leftover bacon smell is not the same as bacon cooking.
I also don't want any cooking smells on me when I walk. It attracts dogs 🐕 😊
 
stretch5881 said:
Regular BO never bothered me much. Sometimes you could tell what a person likes to eat or make a good guess on what they did for a living. I could tell the difference between a dairy, pig or sheep farmer. A lot of the old guys that worked outdoors smelled of blackberry brandy and copenhagen. Owners of body shops smelled of lacquer thinner and paint. Mechanics smelled of grease. Filling station attendants smelled of gasoline. It took a month after retiring from a cheese factory for the smell coming from me to disappear. The smells get in your skin and come out of your pores when you sweat.
I don't think many people realize how much perfume and cologne they douse themselves with to cover up these odors, but they make the problem worse.
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when I met my first husband, he was a Butcher.. before he joined the Navy.... and despite showering twice a day he always smelled of Raw meat...:oops:
 
I used to meet up with some mates for a few pints, but in the pub there was always this bloke who stunk of sh*t, stale food, sweat and other obnoxious things, so this night we all agreed to take a peg with us and when 'Pongo' walked in, we all put our pegs on our noses.
The barman, staring at us all, said, "Don't those pegs hurt your noses?"
And we all blurted out, "Yeh, they do, but it's preferable to smelling some dirty ba***rd who never gets washed."
Pongo heard all of this and left the pub. 😊
 
debodun said:
I have a theory about that. People keep using more and more because they get used to the scent and can't smell it. It's like a drug addiction.
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It has to do with adaptation and desensitization. You smell an odor, it goes under your nose, up into your nose, and it activates something called olfactory neurons. These are basically smell nerve cells up in your nose, and they send a signal to your brain that says, "This is a really strong odor, this is what it smells like." The signals that are being sent by those neurons are in the form of little chemical messengers. They kinda get worn out. They run out of chemicals in these cells, and desensitization happens, and when you smell a strong odor after a while, you'll stop being able to smell the odor. 👃
 
debodun said:
Have you ever sat next to someone in a public place, like church or a theater, whose aroma left something to be desired?
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Yes, I work with someone who has terrible body odor. I know there are some people who have certain medical conditions and cannot help it but many are just dirty. I don't understand it, soap is cheap. I literally move very far away from this person during meetings because it makes me ill to smell them.
 
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