To prefer well groomed people to scruffs?

[skankyVswish]

So, a friend and I were discussing over lunch today how we felt about meeting others that were perhaps less groomed than us.

Where I work, I have to deal with people that perhaps are not the cleanest or look like they have just rolled out of bed and have not even and wash - basic hygiene costs nothing. It makes me go bleugh.

Does this sort of thing bother you or am I being over sensitive?

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You won't find it through search- it's all secret loike. I have sent you a link though if you check your messages

I think I'm a clean scruff. I do wash my hair everyday and sorts rub it, then maybe shoev it back with an Alice band.... but brush it ?? nooo

So long as people dont whiff I dont mind. There is a woman who frequents the Co-Op that I do run the other way when I see her as she honks

Here here LeQueen!

I am dressed nicely for work, make up done, nails done, hair done, heels on!!

Some of the the people I come into contact with are just bleugh!

My nails are actually done today...I got a kit to do my own french manicures which I know are horribly passe, but I think they're nice if the pink and white are barely distinguishable from each other. If they're bubble-gum pink and bright white, not so much. IMO. :)

But I digress. So, the consensus is, it's ok as long as you're not visibly dirty?

Seems to be that way CheerfulYank.

Would anyone ever say to a random stranger that they smell ? The lady I mentioned has said hello and tried to make conversation on occasion but the smell is so overpowering that I try to avoid her now. I have seen people behind her at the checkout wafting their noses and the checkout operator doing that 'about to throw up' thing. You can smell her as you walk past, you dont have to get close. I wonder if it is ever acceptable to say anything ?

I hate the smell of unwashed hair, I'm with you on that one.

My MIL once criticised me to another family member for having a bath every other day at her house. I wouldn't mind but I put 2 50p's in the metre each time. The IL's never lived in a house with a bath till their 50's so this was probably why they didnt understand more tha once a month bathing..

I had MIL to stay once and as I was passing her room she was dressing sat on the bed puting aclean blouse on, (I knew she hadn't been in the bathroom) she just tucked in her collar and said "ooh. I'll have agood wash inabit". She stank of BO all the stay and only had a bath on the last night. [bleurgh emoticon]

Dirty unwashed hair stinks bloody horrible - yuk. Don't get me started on dirty finger nails...