Go away; I can't breath.

[Dave1982]

Had a customer today who was polite and very pleasant except for one thing......he reeked.

He smelled (literally) like he had rolled around on a giant pile of cigar ash after taking a bath in old dirty bong water. It was utterly revolting. I had to try to discretely hold my breath so I wouldn't gag.

And he came to my register twice.

[KamenRiderOsaka]

Oh honey, try working in a video game or electronics store. A prerequisite to shop in there if you have to smell like 5 day old funk. The mixture of funyuns (or cheetoes), mtn dew and sweat, throw in a splash of no deodorant...mkes women's blood boil.

[Ringtail Z28]

That's why I feel sorry for anyone who works in an electronics store whenever a new system comes out and they have to deal with the guys who are literally standing in line for days.

[Alfie]

I had one customer who you could smell before he entered the store. He had on jeans that would have gone through at least 30 wears (judging by the assorted bits of crap on them). Feral unwashed hair too. You simply can't do that in Australia during summer. Bleargh!

[SnapAddict218]

Oh honey, try working in a video game or electronics store. A prerequisite to shop in there if you have to smell like 5 day old funk. The mixture of funyuns (or cheetoes), mtn dew and sweat, throw in a splash of no deodorant...mkes women's blood boil.

Oh stop it! You're getting me all hot and bothered!

[chainedbarista]

hey, i game too, but i also bathe; does this make me a poser?

[Delphae]

At my store, I hardly ever get people who smell. Then one day I got 2 in a row, one who smelled like he had just smoked 10 packs of cigarettes, the other a woman who smelled like she had bathed in perfume. I was choking.

[reformedwaitress]

See I have this problem at work and it's not a person. It's the damn air fresheners they use in the restroom and the front lobby. They are strong as anything and smell disgusting to begin with. I am really sensitive to smells (perfumes, colognes, anything) so I seriously get sick (pounding headache and nausea) as soon as I step off the elevator. But it doesn't bother anyone else so even though I've said something a few times, nothing changes.

Thank god I only have 11 more business days here and I'm gone. Gone I tell you! (c:

[IlovemyGeek]

I don't deal with customers face to face but I do have coworkers that pile on the cologne...does that count?

[Andara Bledin]

I'm with Reformed Waitress. I'm always complaining about the nasty fruit-scented fresheners in the bathroom. What makes it worse is that we had a dead mouse in one of the walls (loooooong story, I may post elsewhere) and they tried to cover it with citrus scented spray freshener. It was in a room off of the main hall just across from the kitchen area, too. I called the combined odor Eu du Ratrus. Naaaasty.

As a gamer who regularly attends gaming conventions and actually staffs the computer/console gaming room I can say with authority that it is not the computer/console gamers who smell the worst. The most vile of all unwashed, troll-like gamers I have ever encountered were those who attended the one year we were the host of one of the official Magic: The Gathering tournaments. Not only were they nasty and icky, but they were the most obnoxious and unpleasant gamers I've encountered as well.

Oh, and for the computer room - if you stink, we won't let you even come in. We're mean like that.

^-.-^

[BookstoreEscapee]

I don't deal with customers face to face but I do have coworkers that pile on the cologne...does that count?

Sure does. I used to work with a guy in that had questionable hygiene habits and had to be spoken to at least once. He was a creepy touchy-feely type to boot. Yecchhh. There was also a girl who was rather obese and sometimes had issues as well. Some days you dreaded being shut in the cashroom with her. She's had to be spoken to as well. Glad I wasn't the one to have to do it.

[Freemage]

It's not my story to tell, so I'm just a-gonna link you good folks over to the most horrid tale in this vein I have ever had to run across. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the saga of Cat-Piss Man. WARNING: This is most definitely not for the faint-of-heart.

[KamenRiderOsaka]

As a former electronics store employee, current gamer, and anime con-goer...I have smelled my fair share of FUNK. The Magic people are bad....but the Yugioh card game nerds are worse. They smell like...ok, remember how Fat Bastard described his fart in Goldmember? Yeah, like that.

Some anime fans just smell like funk. They just need a shower and deodorant, theyd be ok then. But, if they took a shower, thats 15 minutes of not watching anime and they WILL DIE.

[Antisocial_Worker]

I always like the hardcore smokers who come in wanting rooms, and seem shocked when I tell them before they ask that I do in fact have some smoking rooms left. There's no gentle way to tell them that I anticipated it because they're giving off fumes that are causing my computer monitor to go staticky.

[Blueberry]

I have a really really nice customer who comes in almost everyday.
He is very very old, hard of hearing and it's hard to understand him too. I think part of his face is paralyzed.
But really polite if you can understand him.
It's just that he smells very bad. Almost like he wears a diaper but doesn't change it bad.
I hold my breath when I help him, but I don't say anything.
He knows and to bring any attention to the smell would be too embarassing for both of us.