The Stain

[Slave to the Phone]

Dogs pee on me all the time

I have puppy shoes for just that reason.

Now that you have all gone I'll stop and explain.

I volunteer with a rescue group. When I load and unload dogs, the frightened puppies often pee. I try to keep their pee'ers pointed in a safe direction, but my legs and feet get doused on a regular basis. Sometimes I get peed on when I'm cleaning up puppy pee

When I get peed on, the only place I shop is the PetCo that gives us space (and the clerk is usually laughing at me because she saw it happen). I'd NEVER go grocery shopping like that and I ALWAYS wash my clothes every time I wear them and my body at least once a day.

I buy new puppy shoes every couple of months.

[Mr. Crow]

Some people who live just outside of civilization really don't feel the need to be bothered with social formalities. We get them from time to time, but he is the only on that stands out given what happened with the dog.

Vermont is a weird state. You can go from up scale towns to loners liveing in shacks in under five minutes.

[zzapp the witch]

When I bought my house it was an extreme fixer-upper. I had no toilet/bathtub/sink for over a year, while living out here in the shop (which was more livable than the house). I DID have a hose coming out of the well, and a woodstove and/or hotplate. We all washed down out of a pot of hot water every other day, and then on the off days, took showers at the neighbors. I have washed dishes in a old sink propped up on 2x4s in the back yard, washed my hair in a mixing bowl and rinsed with a pitcher of ice cold water, and yes, I dug a toilet pit to use until I could get a porta potty out here. I would coinstar my change, and cash in bottles to wash the laundry every week at the laundromat.

Now I have a bathroom and I can bathe and wash the dishes in the bathtub, the washer and dryer is hooked up, and I've never loved a toilet so much! There's no excuse for being THAT dirty.

Living like that is really not that hard, and now I've learned I can make anything in an electric skillet. Cinnamon rolls, anyone?

[karma_gypsy]

I am sorry but I have for one reason or another been without the joys of modern plumbing for an extended time. But I would put a bucket out for rain or buy, beg ,borrow, or even steal water before I allowed myself to get that disgusting. And the whole oh its ok dogs pee on me attitude was just wrong. Does this guy have no self worth or self esteem? There is just somethign wrong with this person that I fear and pity. I am not sure which more though.

Same here - we got water from the neighbor's - albeit we had to bathe with unheated, cold, mountain water (at least it was clean!!) it was no excuse not to bathe. Oh boy, I hope he doesn't consider getting peed on by a dog bathing!!

It's unfortunate that he's settled with being so unclean all the time . . . especially since he's so nice . . . I feel bad for people like that, but they're just so hard to be around . . .

[Gypsy-Rose]

Living like that is really not that hard, and now I've learned I can make anything in an electric skillet. Cinnamon rolls, anyone?

Electric skillet....open fire...toaster oven,....crock-pot,..a one burner electric plate..

Yep, amazing what one can cook....lol

Washing clothes by hand in a tub and having them hanging above my head in my room to dry use to be fun...in order to wash clothes, take a bath, was dishes, or your hair, we'd heat water up pot by pot, by pot and toss it in the tub.

And to think I went from City to that....

We even once had to walk to a pole and attach the phone there in order to use it...lol Green acres anyone?

[Gypsy-Rose]

As for the ppl that don't bathe....or change clothes?

Gives a whole new meaning to something I once heard...

The clothes are so dirty, one day there gonna just up and walk away...

Orrr...the clothes are so dirty that if you take them off, they'd just stand there...



Oh my goodness.....

I'd go nuts if I couldn't bathe or wash my hair...
I've worked in dog kennels, I been pooped on...I had friends throw up on me by accident as they were sick from over drinking, and I was trying to help them..

Heck...I looked like I been in a middle of a mud war before..but I have to bathe...good grief, that would be the ultimate punnishment if I couldn't!!!

[Giggle Goose]

I can understand the awkwardness of such a situation, since just yesterday, my professor was standing in front of the class, lecturing away, and when he lifted his arms he revealed very visibile armpit stains. The whole class just looked at each other like umm... What can you do in a situation like that but just try to ignore the fact that the person smells and/or has an obvious stain?

[Sofar]

All this reminds me of my friend whom, upon being asked why he hadn't washed his clothes in a week, told me his washing machine broke and there wasn't a laundromat nearby. When I asked him why he didn't just wash his clothes in the bathtub, he replied, "wait, you can do that?" I handwash a lot of my nicer clothes, and did you know that you can get washboards at Fred Mayer?

[MadMike]

When I asked him why he didn't just wash his clothes in the bathtub, he replied, "wait, you can do that?"

Even I could have figured that out. In fact, I did.

Shortly after I became a single parent, I started working on getting my son out of diapers. There were, of course, a few accidents at first. Back then, I was living in an apartment without a washer and dryer. My normal wash day wasn't for a few more days, but I couldn't leave those close sitting around like that until then. But I also wasn't about to drag my son and the few clothes that needed washed to the laundromat. So I washed his stuff in the tub and hung it over a fan to dry it. To my surprise, it worked quite well.

Thankfully, the accidents were far and few, and he was completely trained at about 2 3/4.

[rvdammit]

Orrr...the clothes are so dirty that if you take them off, they'd just stand there...

I had half a dozen black tshirts bought as a job lot. Someone believed me when I said "A shirt ain't dirty till it can stand up on its own".

[Discourtesy Clerk]

I can understand the awkwardness of such a situation, since just yesterday, my professor was standing in front of the class, lecturing away, and when he lifted his arms he revealed very visibile armpit stains. The whole class just looked at each other like umm... What can you do in a situation like that but just try to ignore the fact that the person smells and/or has an obvious stain?

I had a teacher earlier this year (highschool, ugh) that had visible and quite large sets of those at all times. He was the source of much ridicule, but didn't seem to care much himself. I think I've seen something about a medical condition some people have that causes them to sweat like a lawn sprinkler...

[Zombi]

Someone needs to invent a power washer for people, something that will get through clothes and layers of crusted-on filth without seriously injuring or killing the person. There are just way too many people around who either don't know or don't care about proper hygiene.

It's called a fire hose.
I was in the SES cadets at one point, and they let us play with a fire hose once. It was awesome.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

It's called a fire hose.
I was in the SES cadets at one point, and they let us play with a fire hose once. It was awesome.

A fire hose is something you drink out of after you find the marble in the oatmeal.

[XCashier]

It's called a fire hose.

Ah, yes. Now, all we have to do is figure out a way to put industrial-strength antibacterial shampoo/soap into the hose, then you won't have to touch the person at all!

A fire hose is something you drink out of after you find the marble in the oatmeal.

for the UHF reference!

[Tria]

I can understand the awkwardness of such a situation,

Between being unemployed and lack of personal filter.... I have no such qualms about just looking at a guy who hasn't bathed in months and letting him know he STINKS. For some reason humanity just has a problem with something that's obvious to everyone else being pointed out to them.