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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Shop of nerdsThere was a local gaming shop near me, and it was quite good, and it was a local business that was owned by a nice couple. I continued going there quite a few weekends to grab a game or a magazine or whatever and play the demos they had set up on the consoles they had there and it was quite nice. It was good until you went upstairs on a saturday.
You see, saturday was the Warhammer 40K and Yugioh/Magic day, and in the room, nerds aged 10-25 hanged around in a horde playing these games. I had little more than a passing interest in those games. But these guys were fanatics, in that little cramped upstairs room, the older nerds were particularly rancid. At the best of times they smelt of sweat on sweat. They also seemed to wear the same old clothes, day after day. A popular favourite were flame-printed Hawaiian shirts that went forever unwashed. What is it with overweight smelly guys and Hawaiian shirts?
Anyway, I stopped going and eventually the place shut down. I can't help but think that those gamers made the place go out of business with their general antisocial smell and cliqueyness that would turn away most punters.
(, Mon 26 Mar 2007, 2:17, Reply)
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