sickness and cleanliness
So i was chatting with a work colleague today when i started to notice a rather putrid smell exuding from his general vicinity. We’re at the point now where i can be fairly direct and insulting towards him, he’s kind of like my understudy, so i mentioned that he was exuding a putrid odour, which in my Vietnamese 4 year old tongue would have translated to “you smell notta gooda”. To which he replied “I’ve been sick, and haven’t showered since Saturday”. His theory was that when you are sick (he just had a head cold as far as i could tell) you shouldn’t shower, which perhaps makes sense historically when water was less clean and without heat. But Saturday was 5 days ago! and his smell consumed most of the available oxygen in our office, luckily he decided that he was well enough today to take a bath, perhaps tomorrow will be odour free.
I always found my colleagues smelt distinctly stronger over the winter months, which is odd because one hardly has cause to perspire. My theory was that they tended to bathe less because none of them had running hot water and it was too bloody cold otherwise. I daresay I was guilty of the same vice myself when my water heater was up the putt.
Btw Longan, I’ve just been counting, and the most I can seem to get to is 63. Bugger huh.