Extreme STENCH

[MystyGlyttyr]

How...how how how how how how how HOW can you let your body odor get to the point where a person who was sitting three feet away from you for thirty seconds has to go into the bathroom and wash out their clothes in the sink just to escape the absolute HORRIBLENESS?? (NO ONE is laughing at my tendency to always carry a change of clothes anymore.) And how do you even ACHIEVE a smell that's vaguely reminiscent of my father's compost heap if it had been sprayed with sugar and oranges?? I've heard that sometimes diabetics can have some sort of "sweet" smell to them, but this...this was like a cherry lollipop dipped in liquid hog shit and dried with the fur from a week-dead badger. WTF is THAT??

I mean, when you're talking to someone who is INVOLUNTARILY scooting back away from you just to try and escape the wave of nausea-inducing filth, how can you not be aware of it? Someone who is being paid to be professional and not shriek and run from you can only very BARELY control a reaction that screams "DEATH, RUN FROM DEATH, RUN FROM IT!" at your passing.

[guywithashovel]

Back when I worked at Wal-Mart, we would often get customers like that, especially when the weather was warm. It was in a pretty rural area, so sometimes we'd get guys coming in after they had been working in the fields all day, and their bodies would be peppered with all sorts of "interesting" fragrances---sweat, manure, etc. Some of them would manage to have this really deep, pungent smell deep within their skin.

We would also get people who were apparently just too lazy to bathe. There was this one guy who came in periodically, and we would try not to gag as we waited on him. He would be dressed in casual clothes each time, and often, the clothes would appear clean. But he smelled absolutely horrible. And it was the standard B.O. smell, too, like he just hadn't bathed or put on any deodorant for at least a week.

I don't get these people. If it's been twenty-four hours since I last bathed, I feel like a skuzball and get in the shower the first chance I get. If I have been outside working in the yard, the first thing I do when I'm done is take a shower. Obviously, these people simply don't care.

[Lace Neil Singer]

There's a guy who works at the supermarket who's like that; everyone refers to him as El Stinko. X_x Honestly, you can tell where he's walked cuz of the wave of funk he has wafting behind him. Ugh.

[powerboy]

I don't get these people. If it's been twenty-four hours since I last bathed, I feel like a skuzball and get in the shower the first chance I get. If I have been outside working in the yard, the first thing I do when I'm done is take a shower. Obviously, these people simply don't care.

Same here. I take a shower the first chance that I get. And if I do not get the chance too, then I put on a deodorant and body spray. And I keep some Febreze in the car, so I use that on the clothes if need too. Point I am trying to say is, that I make sure that I do not stink

[DrFaroohk]

THAT is the biggest reason I am a smoker. I can walk through the nastiest homeless part of town and never smell a damn thing. It's wonderful!

[Flyndaran]

THAT is the biggest reason I am a smoker. I can walk through the nastiest homeless part of town and never smell a damn thing. It's wonderful!

I consider smoking vile, but that was damn funny.

[BlaqueKatt]

I work in a lab-my sense of smell is kinda burned out-though I do like the smell of Agar and Ethanol....about the only things I can still smell anymore.....

[Greenday]

I work in a lab-my sense of smell is kinda burned out-though I do like the smell of Agar and Ethanol....about the only things I can still smell anymore.....

Or, the chemical that appears in every lab: ammonia!

[blas87]

Actually, Dr is quite right. The longer a person smokes, the more of the sense of smell that they lose, as well as taste.

One of my coworkers actually quit smoking for a few months......and she said "You know, it feels great to be able to smell fresh air again and be able to actually taste my food.....but when I come to work and have to smell some of the people here, I really wish I smoked again."

[Greenday]

Actually, Dr is quite right. The longer a person smokes, the more of the sense of smell that they lose, as well as taste.

Just use Zicam! Same thing, only healthier!

[Dreamstalker]

We would also get people who were apparently just too lazy to bathe. There was this one guy who came in periodically, and we would try not to gag as we waited on him. He would be dressed in casual clothes each time, and often, the clothes would appear clean. But he smelled absolutely horrible. And it was the standard B.O. smell, too, like he just hadn't bathed or put on any deodorant for at least a week.

I would get guys (the few girl gamers I saw were always very clean even when dressed casually) like that at the game store a lot. The horribleness was compounded x100 when the AC was broken in the middle of August during a heat wave.

Seriously, when it's 92 in the shade outside how do you NOT KNOW how bad you smell? Most of the worst offenders I knew took the subway to the store, so how the other passengers didn't kill them I don't know.

[Rapscallion]

I think a good chunk of it is that the human nose acclimatises to odours very quickly. I heard it defined as a defence mechanism - hiding under a pungent bush and you'd notice a new odour (possibly a predator) far sooner sort of thing. You can get used to your own smell very quickly.

I can sort of understand hikers who haven't been able to bathe not realising, but when someone sees everyone around them recoiling and holding their noses, then it's high time they woke up and smelled ... the Febreze, I guess.

As for people who are told they stink, then if they don't do anything about it then it's bordering on sociopathy. Possibly an extreme definition, but it's in the right ballpark.

Rapscallion

[Boozy]

As for people who are told they stink, then if they don't do anything about it then it's bordering on sociopathy. Possibly an extreme definition, but it's in the right ballpark.

Extreme, yes. But I absolutely agree with you. It's possible to feel assaulted by the stench coming off of some people.

[Nyoibo]

It was in a pretty rural area, so sometimes we'd get guys coming in after they had been working in the fields all day,

If it's a 'clean' sweat from just hard work, that can be kinda attractive, however, stinkyness is just wrong.

I go for a couple of days at a time without showering, but that's if I'm staying at home, if I go out I bathe.

[tabbyblack13]

I am a type of person that likes to be clean and smell clean. Where I work I can get floored by the smells that come off of people. It is understandable at times but if you have clean clothes on then why would you smell so bad. I know that some people have bad BO naturally but can't that be handled by using the right soap and avoiding certain foods. Could there also be a medical cause behind a persons stench too? I know if someone smells sickly sweet they might have a verity of diabetes. If I'm wrong correct me.

I do like the smell of people who have worked out or have the "clean" sweat too.