Reply #224: The hygiene is a huge issue!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

True story.

Once I was in a coffee place when I spotted a man who looked as if he might be my type. He was carrying a pile of books and wearing a T-shirt whose slogan I agreed with.

I started across the room in the hope that I could begin a conversation by complimenting him on his T-shirt when I was struck by a wave of body odor.

Then I noticed that there was no one else in his whole half of the coffee shop.

I turned around and went back to my place.

I once briefly (briefly!) dated a guy who thought he was too busy to bathe. He also wore stained clothes that were falling apart (despite having a middle class income), kept a house that the health department should have condemned, and tried to dominate conversations whether anyone was listening or not and to argue over trivialities. He was smart and even funny, and kind of sweet, but I got out of that relationship fast. I actually told him some of these things when I gave him his walking papers, and it just didn't seem to compute. He just moaned and groaned about how fickle women were. :shrug: