Really, really, REALLY bad BO!!.....do you tell 'em?
 

On Sunday I went to the nearby Rogers (cell phone service provider) store as I was having some problems with my old ass Iphone. As soon as I opened the door...IT HIT ME! Nose hair curlin', blepharospasm (severe eyelid twitching) inducing, really, really, REALLY bad BO!!...and I knew exactly the source..the young lady clerk working the front desk (I was the only person in there with her at first). OK, she was quite pleasant and actually fairly attractive but.....PEEEUUUUH!:rolleyes:

Soon other people came in to the store and I could just see their reactions as they walked in...I motioned the "It's not me" look! Actually two people just turned around and immediately vacated the premises!

She couldn't immediately solve the problem that I was having so she told me that she'd look it up and so it might take awhile. I said OK I've got to go to the bank.....so I left the store just to get the hell out of there...gasping for fresh air as I left!:p

So would you guys have told her??...I probably should have as she was loosing customer after customer....or tell management I suppose.

As I left I kept checking myself with a sniff test just to make sure that I hadn't been entombed by the smell!:eek:

Years ago had a similar problem with a co worker from an un named sub continent. He got an American girlfriend who weaned him off his mothers traditional over spiced garbage foods and the problem went away.

I guess I'd leave to re-arm. Eat some brocolli and then some Taco Bell. Return and fight fire with fire- you know, fart up a big ass toxic cloud in her general direction. OTOH, you might return on her day off, in which case there would be collateral damage.

Tell her.......but only after your phone is fixed......:D

Years ago I hired an employee who had oral pyria...was so bad you could even see it.
One event with him in the crew truck with me for just a few minutes ended it. Stunk up the truck.
The good news was that he was lazy so I fired him at 10:30 one morning.
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Oh man, been there done that. It hard if you have to get close to that person, like stand next to you talking and looking at stuff. I had to keep backing away but they keep getting closer. My father was in the jewelry business and these guys, not east Indian, but they eat lots of garlic so that smell comes out of their pores (and that they are big people). I hated getting caught up with them in the old elevator especially during the summer months. It was bad.

Nooffenseoranything.com. Get her email address though.

inserting the ethnicity wasn't really necessary, imho.
stinky is stinky.
i went into a store, ok, a Walmart ....... there was this smelly honky .........

Yes, absolutely. No beating around the bush, point blank.

As in "I find your odor extremely offensive and I'm leaving now because i can't stand to be in the same room as you. Good day ma'am."

When I worked on gas stations I got that a lot. Two flavors, curry & kimchi.

TRUE!....fixed it!

Could be a way of getting out of doing work.
Not busy less work.
Could also be a medical condition.

Just head on over and say baby did you fart?, hate to be mean buy you need Listerene, not a sip not a swallow but the who dam bottle. You could mention that modern society uses soap and shampoo, in other words hell yah, tell em!:D

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Oh Brother!!!
The mention of her blood line/ethnicity get your itty bitty feelings hurty poo?

nicely done!

whatever.
i had mistaken you for someone decent. my mistake. thanks for the update!

I used to work in HVAC. I was paired up with a guy, when in the summer time he would be soaked from sweat by the time he showed up for work in the morning. He wasn't that heavy but he was hairy. He would smell like a sweaty wet dog with bad BO. We used to drive in the work vehicle together. He had this nasty habit of raising his arms and putting his hands behind his head. I told him regularly FLAPS down. He had good grooming habits but no one else would work with him. He was a pretty good guy, except for that.
I wasn't PC with him.

Worked in a machine shop. One of the workers smelled so bad from BO nobody would go within 20ft. He worked night shift and the night manager was able to put him on a machine that he was the only one in the whole building. He was asked to do something and nothing happened. Finally the Supervisor sent him home for a week with a bar of scented deoderant soap. Told him to use it twice a day or don't come back. And that he was to take a shower using soap evey day if he did come back.

We also found out that his wife was pressing his clothes by putting them under the cusions on the couch.

He came back without the BO a week later. After not very long he got a hair cut and started wearing cleaner clothes. He cleaned up pretty good. After a year he had bought a much nicer car (had a very beat up dirty old van) and then after another year got another job.

Never ever follow me in a store...foul is not the word for it.

I worked with 2 brothers who were from India. They were actually pretty cool guys, but gawsh darn, on a hot summers day , they made the hippies at a GD concert smell like fresh cut flowers .
This was a big 20 bay shop, and on hot days, there was no where to escape it ,it actually made me sick to my stomach. It used to be funny seeing the rest of the guys in the shop trying to work as far away from them as possible . The two brothers would have the front 2 bays, and everybody else would fight for the bays at the other end by the doors .
Management asked a few of us shop guys to say something to them about it . We had an older guy who did it with tact, and just explained that it was part of our culture to bathe and use deodorant . I guess even back in 1990, they were afraid to offend them. My boss at that time,, was also a spineless ninny.
It must have worked, because , they then moved to dousing themselves with cheap cologne, which was a huge improvement .

That's twice now that you've appeared to have had an uncomfortable inner experience and twice that you may (perhaps) be looking outside of yourself for the cause.
It's not uncommon for us to want the universe to alter itself so that we're comfortable...and that includes wanting others to alter their speech and behavior...FOR US.
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A funny example that I remember from the Mary Tyler Show:
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Lou Grant: (Scornfully) "Ted, you know how you are?"
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Ted Baxter: (Proudly, with chest stuck out) "Yeah Lou."
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Lou Grant: "Don't be that way."

:)
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It's my notion that everyone could learn a great deal about the insidious underpinnings of PC when "Cultural Marxism" is Googled.
We can begin to know that deception is the mask we choose to wear on the way to our own self-execution. Self-deception is a pretending to not know.
We may not feel oppressed, even if we are classic examples of self-alienation; the mystified oppressed who are not only robbed of our freedom, but robbed of our awareness of the robbery, and being given the illusion that we benefit from it.
That is what falling under the influence of Political Correctness does. It's the goal of Cultural Marxism.
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Had a roommate in college assigned to live with us for the first term. It musta been a cultural thing. The guy never once took a shower or washed his clothes. Eventually he stopped going to class, too. Trashed a full ride scholarship. He'd apparently never been away from home which was in the Cass Corridor of Detroit.

He was an OK guy but had absolutely no upbringing.

While attending the University of Exeter, we had a guy down the hall in the dorm who never bathed or laundered his clothes. One day we had enough and threw him into the shower, cloths and all and squirted liquid detergent all over him. Brutal, I know, but he got the message.

Not exactly just BO but similar... Friend at University master program came from Japan - slight smell on clothes but no biggie, until we met at his apartment for a study group one day. Holy $%$#%! Could-not-breathe. I gagged, had to bail, and felt bad because he's a nice guy and it was not strictly speaking BO....

Come to figure out he'd moved from straight from his family home to a corporate dormitory for a big conglomerate, so essentially went from his mother to his company taking care of washing his clothes or bedsheets, stuff like that... he showered but had no clue about the rest... I took the time to explain he should wash his bedsheets every weekend (or at least 2 weeks - trust me it had been 6 months or so ;-) , wash his clothes with *detergent*, and emptying food trash more often... The clothes smell was clothing washed with just water and sweat "baked in" by the dryer. There was stuff crawling on his bed...

He had *no* idea, stuff had magically been done for him until now. Once explained to him in great details (him taking notes, I kid you not), he totally fixed it all and aced it, just had ZERO clue until told. Amazing to me, but hey... We aren't all the product of similar environments ;-)

Alot of clueless, helpless people out there who have no common sense, or basic skills.

exquisitely put!
ought to be a sticky on some psych forum somewhere. wonder if it would fit in my sig line. ;)

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Walking to a restaurant in town with my family I ran into a guy that works in the operating room at work. Great guy, but when he's not at work he wears an OUTRAGEOUS amount of cologne. He's a sweet guy. Gay and very expressive. So of course when he sees me I get the full body hug. I introduce him to my family and we part ways. Throughout dinner I can hardly taste my food because I'm immersed in a cloud of cologne. My kids are teasing me relentlessly. The waitress was laughing and she even said she noticed!

The word is 'cloy'. Excessive parfume/cologne. Ugh!
My Mexican employees would often stink with super heavy cologne/after shave.
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Edit: Oops, scratch that definitive word "Mexican"...for the sensitive ones on the forum. :)

A defensive measure intended to discourage people from competing for the dragon pants ...

the person that invented AXE body spray should be sent to an island. wow!! kids coat themselves.

stank BO..yea. i wouldnt say anything. every culture comes at it from a different angle.

me? yesterday i put on a shirt that stank like a wet moldy towel. product of my wife's laundry skills. a tiny bit of sweat from me activated it, and it was crushing..i drove home and showered and put on clean stuff. eff it..i'm self regulating.

We had a co-worker that had a male cat the must have sprayed everything in the house. The dude would come to work and the cat pee was overwhelming. The boss actually took him outdoors to send him home to shower and put on clean clothes. He still stunk. He was fired within a week. Zero tolerance for that.

We had a lady customer that was a solid Cougar. Very pretty but she had to take a bath in her perfume. It was so strong one could taste it in the back of the building when she walked in the front door. She was a good customer (she paid her bill and it was some decent money) so we all knew the boss was going to put up with the stink.

I was part of a team supporting the USMC in Korea. A team member, Louis, was obese and did not exercise proper hygiene. Well the humidity was very high and the hours were long. We were working in air conditioned tents but Louis never stopped sweating. At the end of the second day the Lt. Col. in Louis's tent pulled me aside saying he was not allowed to return unless he cleaned up. That didn't work out so well - Louis was put on a plane home inside the week.

Years ago I started car pooling with this guy at work. He was young, very fit, good looking, well groomed, and fun to talk to. Yet he drove a Honda Civic that smelled so bad I got nauseous within 5 minutes of our 30 minute commute. I would come home and my wife said I looked green. Had to end that commuting arrangement after a couple weeks with a lame excuse.

One of the funniest thing I saw at work years ago was actually rather gross.

To get to one side of the business to the other everyone had to walk through the front foyer where the customers were waited on. The rule was if you saw a customer waiting, stop and help the customer. We had a customer come in that was a "large boned" (OK she was fat) women and she did not wash all the vital parts that really need washing on women, especially on large females.

I was was finishing up with a different customer getting out of the foyer into our work area and was happy to get out of the foyer just as one of the other guys walked through and curled up his lip and exclaimed in a loud voice "what stinks like fish?!"

I fell on the floor of the work area with the giggles and the regular front counter person was stuck up there. The loudmouth suddenly realized just what he was smelling and RAN to the bathroom to puke. I was laughing so hard I was crying.

I just cover the foul odor with cologne...which makes it a sickly sweet odor... I am wondering if it could be those Thrift store cloths and shoes, or not showering for weeks at a time?

When I was young and walking through department stores with my Daddy he would let out these horrendously loud and wet sounding PBBBBBT's. I would cringe, shrink away into another aisle and pretend that I did not know him while holding my nose...His comment was, "Do you want me to get sick or something" ostensibly by holding in those potent gases.

""what stinks like fish?!""
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Old military joke: "Two things in this life smell like fish, one of them is fish"

That's some clever schit right there.

People who haven't bathed properly and recently enough smell bad, regardless of where their ancestors are from. There can definitely be a dietary and/or genetic component as well but I find it to cross ethnic lines fairly completely.

Use of deodorant helps.