Reeking to a range of 20 feet

[depechemodefan]

Some people can't help their circumstances and don't have frequent access to bathing facilities, but even the homeless can use a public restroom and a paper towel to take a whore's bath and keep the stink at bay.

the homeless do that at the library. They get caught they get their asses kicked out.

Our spineless managers won't tell anyone stinky to leave. But one day a particular regular who is always stinky was told he had to leave and he coudln't come back until he cleaned up. He was back in an hour, clean. There are homeless shelters in the downtown area. They make you leave at 7am but I think they let you come in to shower. There are other facilities (for the homeless, like they only give meals) that let you shower.

then there was the day a guy was washing his balls in the waterfountain....

[MergedLoki]

I've had a few smelly ass people come in as patients.

Mostly older people but still if I ever reach a point in life where I can't shower at least every few days i'm just gonna save everybody the bother and jump off a cliff lol.

Anyways there was one guy i had come over for an xray, nurses called me in advance and told me 'hey loki wear an n95 mask and gloves for this guy' (n95 masks are the kinds people are wearing for H1N1 etc. as they are designed to filter out basically EVERYTHING (germs things as small as molecules etc.)
and i could STILL smell this guy through the mask it was disgusting.

another day i came in for my shift, and smoething smelled weird. I mentioned it to a co-worker and she told me a man her and antoher tech had xrayed HOURS ago (roughly 2+ hours by the time i had come on shift). smelled. they had sprayed air freshener and everythign and nope, xray dept smelled for about 4 horus after the guy left.

Worst part is he wasn't an ER patient (as most our homeless patients are so yea they tend to smell). This guy was an outpatient (meaning a family doc or something TOLD HIM 'take this, go get an xray') i have to imagine if you have a doctor, you have a house, and therefore a shower. USE IT

[Schmoopie3928]

I used to work in the hospital. I was just a file clerk for radiology, but Working 3rd shift sometimes required you to help out wherever you are needed. We had a homeless woman brought in unconscious.

We all had to help move her to a table in CT. She was at least 350 lbs and probably hadn't bathed in a year. The stench coming off her was enough to make me ill. I gagged about 3 times through the process. The best part? Guess who had to reach under her ass to move her to the table?? You guessed it!

I had to change my scrubs afterward and I swear my hands reeked even though I wore gloves. Ever smelled mouldy, pissed on shitty, sweaty ass??

[Krivak]

Thank heavens i dont get any of those through drive thru, the worst i've had so far was this person ordering stuff, and when the window was let down, the smell of crack just wafted in. Did. Not. Like. >_>

[KellyHabersham]

the homeless do that at the library. They get caught they get their asses kicked out.

Our spineless managers won't tell anyone stinky to leave. But one day a particular regular who is always stinky was told he had to leave and he coudln't come back until he cleaned up. He was back in an hour, clean. There are homeless shelters in the downtown area. They make you leave at 7am but I think they let you come in to shower. There are other facilities (for the homeless, like they only give meals) that let you shower.

then there was the day a guy was washing his balls in the waterfountain....

That's about how it is in the library I work at - poor hygiene is on the list of "unacceptable behaviors" from library customers, but my understanding is that we have to get complaints from other customers before being able to ask the stinky person to leave.

[KitterCat]

I’ve never understood people not bathing, and I’ve worked at Renaissance Fairs where people have run circuit, going from fair to fair to fair. You learn really quick if you don’t smell decent you will not last long in that community, nor will you have customers for long. Some quick fixes for needing to clean where those nifty showering wipes. Couldn’t clean everything, but at least the main points were covered. And learning how to take a bath from a bucket of water. Yes you can wash your hair, you just have to have a big enough bucket and a tolerance for cold water.

I still think one of the owners at one of the Fairs put it best - I am paraphrasing, but here’s the gist of it
“Bathe people. If we stink to high heaven no one will want to come and none of us makes a living. Put on a clean shirt, pants. If you’ve only got one costume for the weekend at least let it air out overnight. For those of you dressing nobly, I understand your trying to maintain historical accuracy with your clothing,. However we’re hitting 105 in the shade. You don’t need 5 layers of under-dress, no one will know if you take a couple layers off. Give some of the peasants a brake and lessen the smell.“

[ralerin]

There was a guy who came into my Aid of Rite day before yesterday. Very nice guy, pleasant to deal with, but the smell. =/ His coat hadn't been washed in 10 years, and he probably wasn't washed in at least a year. Cat piss, onion, whatever, he just stank. I kept my nose wrinkled. I'm sure he must've thought I was a bit rude, but honestly, he was starting to trigger my asthma. =/

[It shouldn't]

I was stuck in a hospital room for 5 days with a stinky lady.

She was about 350-400 lbs. I can understand that at that size it might be a bit cumbersome to take a bath (or even fit in the bathtub), but she refused to even wipe herself down with the moist soapy/heated towels they brought around every morning.

I could hear the nurses first hinting, then pleading, then arguing with her when they came around to collect the used towels. Inquiring why she didn't use hers.

At one point they had to get her semi undressed for an examination.
This exam apperantly involved pulling some of the fat rolls appart....

OMG....

The stench comming from accross the room, through two plastic curtain barriers,

Let's just say, I found the strength to walk, while hanging onto my IV pole.

[Sapphire Silk]

Back in my restaurant days we used to have this customer come in that made a garbage scow smell good. We would seat her as far away from other customers as we could because not only did she reek to high heaven she was also completely off her rocker and would annoy anybody sitting next to her. Well, that and people would demand to be moved if she was too close.

<snip>

Poor hygiene is a hallmark of the mentally ill, particularly those with psychotic mental illnesses. This gal was probably off her meds.

One of the first things I learned in my pysch rotation is "Even the mentally ill are responsible for their actions." So telling her to come to the restaurant bathed is not unreasonable.

[depechemodefan]

That's about how it is in the library I work at - poor hygiene is on the list of "unacceptable behaviors" from library customers, but my understanding is that we have to get complaints from other customers before being able to ask the stinky person to leave.

A manager said that once, though considering the consistancy of the managers, that might change.

One cw told a person at a computer he smelled, he had to leave. The smelly person said no one else complained so a bunch of other people said, "dude, you reek," and such. I don't remember if security was then called when he didn't leave or if he did finally leave.

The elevators are always reeking.

[Zoom]

Notwithstanding my shared disgust of olfactory offenses, I once had an uncle who smelled bad. He took lots of showers and baths and used all kinds of soaps and whatnot and still whiffed the reek gagtastic.

Turned out he had some sort of rotten skin condition that made him smell and nothing but an expensive and medically dubious procedure that he couldn't afford could fix it... maybe.

Anyway, he kept on stinkin' and lost his job as an electronic technician. Apparently they didn't care that it wasn't his fault, they just knew he stunk with the funk; so they treated him like junk.

Meanwhile, about the same time he passed away, I started noticing a co-worker at my job giving off bad emanations. Some years later (namely now), I still don't know if she even takes showers or has a case of channeling my uncle.