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02 July 2007
No, I'm not saying that... I just found it a little bit odd, that's all.
There was an overwhelming smell of cumin on the bus this morning. Only after several stops was I able to place it as coming from the homeless guy in the back.
Three small girls were fighting over a jacket (two of them were teasing the third one, I think) near a bus-stop yesterday evening. As I was going past them, one of them said: "Look, teacher!" And they shut up for a second. When they realized that I was not their teacher, they started to laugh.
Eh, BO's not so bad. Until you pile on all the sprays and cremes and implements of destruction, we all more or less smell the same, which is to say, pretty gamey.
Homeless-man BO is bad. I say this as someone who lived in Italy long enough to stop being bothered by people who wore ineffective deodorant and probably only showered a few times a week. It's just not the same smell as a homeless dude.
When I was strictly vegetarian, I had absolutely no body odor. I'm not lying. I lived in India during the hot season and sweated gallons a day and wore no deodorant.
OK. Perhaps strictly-vegetarian homeless-dude BO is not bad. :-)
I have a friend who never wears deodorant and never stinks, really, at all. There's a theory floating about that redheads have some weird body chemistry that results in less body odor.
So! There is my weird something: Redheads have some weird body chemistry that results in less body odor. Maybe.
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