Like, I travel around for work and I’ve met plenty of people from all backgrounds.

Why is there a demographic of people who don’t seemingly bathe regularly, or at the very least wear something to cover up their BO? I could understand if it’s an allergy, or even religious reasons (though the people I’ve met that smell bad are usually you’re average American young adult man) but recently (like in the past week, recently) I’ve met a concerning number of people who don’t seem to wear any kind of deodorant or possibly don’t even bathe regularly; it’s starting to become an issue for me, as I don’t even want to interact with them when I can smell them walking up from 3+ feet away yet I need to for work.

Does anyone have any possible insight?

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]English
    1•1 year ago

    I don’t think you’re going to find anyone that admits to smelling bad.

    I would, and I do.

    I assume people who smell bad do it because they don’t know that they smell, so they don’t try to change anything.

    Tl;Dr: depression

    Not true for me. I have no job, and I’ve accepted after over 350 applications that I won’t be getting one any time soon. I just this week got my first in-person interview (although I’ve had a few online/phone ones), again after over 350 applications, so I’m basically only ever around my family for the least amount of time possible.

    Why bother doing anything that isn’t fun or doesn’t actively contribute to my survival? If I have to appear in person, I can clean up in time anyways. But we both know that’s not going to happen anytime soon.

    When I’m depressed like this, it is usually until I start to smell myself that I wait, because after that it just becomes annoying. To be clear, I do not prefer BO. Sorry if that’s TMI.