Smelly people

[thebottleismine]

I work in a shop and it's surprising how many extremely smelly people walk about. Now I dont mean people that have called in after the gym/run etc I'm talking really, really bad pissy unwashed clothes that absolutely reeeeeek of some kind of putrid smell, perhaps unwashed for an extremely long time. Now, Whilst I know everyone has different circumstances etc but I was really shocked to learn that one of the long term (smelly) shoppers actually has a very glamorous daughter and it stunned me to the core that she would let her dad out knowing he smelt so completely terrible.
Surly most people know that if you don't wash both yourself and your clothes you will eventually smell? Why someone would allow a friend or family to go out like this is extremely cruel in my opinion.

I agree OP I've met so many dirty people in my job they're not just smelly I mean disgusting teeth dirty clothes, filthy nails and hair in most cases though it's a few members of the family not just one that I've met and are the same. I find it quite shocking no matter how poor you are shower gel is extremely cheap I buy the 89p one myself.

Equally I have friends that don't shower every day sometimes every third day and they never smell and also don't look dirty.

Even schools teach about personal hygiene I can't understand why people would be dirty other than mental health but when it's more than one member of the family it leads me to believe it's just shocking laziness and lack of care.

I am often gagging when walking behind some children on the school run.

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It's tricky, for sure.

I have noticed my FIL smelling more as he gets older. I know he uses a flannel to wash most days and wears the same outfit for multiple days in a row. His breath is often sour too. I hate it and keep telling DH he has to say something but he doesn't have the guts. Luckily it's only when you are really close to him but still... I imagine soon enough that won't be the case. It's very tricky and eventually the family will have to intervene but these people could win a gold if Avoiding Difficult Conversations were an Olympic sport... so I hold little hope!

I call this the ‘wet dog smell’ and my ex’s shirts smelled of this even when they were ‘freshly’ washed.
It’s not so much radiator drying that is the issue, but if a finished load is left in the washing machine for a while before being hung up to dry it gets that musty, stale smell. It happened me once that a load finished a few hours before I got home and I had to re wash it twice to get the musty smell out.
Also the washing machine needs cleaning with Calgon or something along those lines to keep it fresh.

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What are they feeding you?
Smelly cunt, smelly cunt
It's not your fault!

I used to work in a small doctor’s office. Two doctors & three women and one guy in the very back.
The guy in the back took copious amounts of garlic supplements, so many they came out his pores.
It was nauseating. It wafted through the entire office and even the patients complained.
We went to the doctor and told him, especially since the patients were complaining, and the doctor simply waved us off saying it was the guy’s right to take whatever he wanted.
I didn’t last long in that job.
I’ll never forget that absolute stench.

A certain library branch used to absolutely reek of B.O and dirty clothes.
So much so it used to make me heave.
No idea why it smelled so bad.
I have noticed people smelling of stale sweat..
People who use perfume to cover up stale sweat ..Bad idea. Stale perfume and sweat isn't a pleasant smell.

Synthetic clothing doesn't help.
Charity shops sometimes have that sweaty clothes smell, too.

Yeah, the people who bullied me for 13 years at a former workplace held that belief. I showered every morning before work, clothes fresh from being washed, wore deodorant. Guess what? Within 3 hours of getting into work, they were running to the supervisor and I was being reprimanded for having body odour. Nothing stopped them, not even the union coming in to do a talk on bullying. They thought themselves terribly amusing. It didn't matter what I did, I got sent home once during the work day under orders to "put some clean clothes on" because the supervisor was one of the bullies and then got told off when I returned, having done as I was told, for not putting clean clothes on.
What do you suggest I should have done? There was no higher level I could take it to, and believe me, I tried only to be told to just ignore the bullying. So much for their zero tolerance policy 🙄
So when I see people say body odour and hygiene are correlated, I call bs just based on my own experience. Because people telling me that for 13 years has left me paranoid about my hygiene and unable to trust people.

I think it's a combo of health, unaware or just don't care. My friend used to stink in summer (hot country) then lost weight. She never noticed. Her DD is very, very obese & you can't be in the same house as her as she stinks so much. DH gave her a lift once & ha

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My DH gave friend's DD a lift & had to air/odour neitralise his car overnight it was so bad. My friend notices, but didn't notice her own smell.

The worst is going into a supermarket & having to follow people who stink. Some are so bad I've had to shop in reverse from far side of the shop because it lingers enough to make me want to vomit two aisles over. These people are usually slovenly dressed & I suspect it's unwashed everything.

I'm fairly smelly at the moment.

Both the boiler and the emersion heater are broken and have been for weeks.

I do have an electric shower but I can't stand for long and I can't use a bath board.

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I work with another medical professional who stinks, she has no sense of smell after an accident. She isn't clean either her clothes look unwashed and hair unwashed. But I know she suffers from depression too. Its difficult to know how to manage it, I'm not her manager so I don't but I do wonder what patients must think.

I'm very glad that I'm not a 'super smeller'. Apparently a side effect is that you become a judgy bitch.

If someone smells so bad that they stink out a whole shop, it's clearly a wider issue and not just a one-off like an ostomy leak.

Don't take everything you read on here so personally.

This is clearly utter bollocks and you know it!

I had a ‘smelly’ friend in college. Lovely girl, I really got on with her but she smelt really bad. I knew she showered because she’d sometimes turn up with her hair still wet but I guess the antiperspirant was missing or not very good because she had exceptionally pungent BO. I was always paranoid the tutors would think it was me when they came near us. I never got used to the stench and found it particularly difficult when the weather was warm.

No idea why she smelt at all, she was morbidly obese so I don’t know whether that had something to do with it. Her clothes didn’t smell so she wasn’t unclean by any means.

It could be not using soap in the shower, just running water off. Even lack of anti perspiring wouldn't make you smell immediately after a shower. She'd have to not be washing with anything for a while. (I posted earlier, this was pretty much me in secondary- washed my hair and showered by didn't shower properly).

Wasn't there a thread recently ish About someone struggling with a smelly colleague?

I am extremely sensitive to smell...I have a sensitive gag reflex.

I remember feeling sorry for the author of the smelly colleague post and now I have my own.
Luckily it's only some days...but I can smell whenshes walked down. Corridor or been in. Room!
I can't go in the loo after her!

Any cresa or fold in the skin will Snell if not washed and will smell again quicky unless washed.

What surprises me about the girl at work.. she herself seems to have a very sensitive nose

I do hope none of the judgemental people with uber sensitive noses are never the subject of a vicious campaign of bullying about their body odour to the point they are scrubbing themselves raw in an attempt to not "smell".
It must be so nice to think you're better than people who have been bullied to that point or are struggling with their BO.
Or maybe, have you ever thought, the smell is your own personality? Try being a nicer person to other and less judgemental, you might just find the smell goes away.

most threads about doing laundry and changing clothes on MN is like a race to the bottom. posters saying they don’t wash clothes till they are dirty , wear the same underwear two days in a row , bed linen changed once a week, children go to school in uniform they wore the day before , but they all claim to smell perfectly fine, no idea if it’s just a wind-up or if a great percentage of people who just don’t care.
of course there are medical conditions, medication or type of food that effect a persons BO.
but honestly you can "see" a person who smells bad. They mostly look unkempt and unwashed.

And old age is not an excuse too, I see old ladies frequently doing their hair and nails at my local place average age is about 85 I’d say! always looking clean and smelling nice. Both sets of my grandparents , long gone now, always smelt of their usual soap and cologne and always wore clean ironed clothes, even when one was slowly slipping into dementia.

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I do think people get used to their smell so don't realise that they smell bad.

I think others just get out of bed and put some perfume on without washing first and think it will be ok. Unwashed perfume is one of worst smells. It makes me feel sick.