Please shower and wear deodorant. It’s really the least you can do. Last I checked, most guys don’t have to wear make-up, do their hair really fancy, wear earrings, perfume, curl their eyelashes, ect… Those are all things that girls do. Not all the time of course, and I don’t mean to say that if a girl doesn’t do these things, that she’s any less of a lady. But I can’t remember the last time I was a meter away from a female and felt like buying a mini bottle of Fabreeze for the next time someone was radiating an equally bothersome stench. It’s not hard either. Showers feel good.
Don’t see it as something that should be a convenience for yourself either. Self-contentment comes after selflessness. First, you must understand that good hygiene is more than a sanitary benefit, a social bonus or an asset to your comfort. It’s common courtesy; good manners. Ever wonder why we have etiquette? It’s because there are certain annoyances that are virtually universal. Examples of these are chewing loudly with your mouth open, interrupting people, or detonating your biological dynamite in someone else’s bathroom without cleaning it up. The vast majority of people in the vast majority of cultures don’t appreciate these things and it’s the same with people who don’t properly maintain themselves physically.
So how do you know if you’re one of these people? If it was as simple as smelling yourself, then this wouldn’t be such a big problem. Here’s a list of possible descriptions of an unknowing hygienic criminal (for males only):
1. You do a lot of physical activity and don’t shower every day.
2. You do a moderate amount of physical activity and don’t shower every day.
3. You don’t do much physical activity and don’t shower every day.
4. You do absolutely no physical activity at all and don’t shower every day.
5. You don’t shower every day.
Unlike most laws, there are no exceptions to this one (unless you have no sweat glands, in which case you probably are dead). If you’re a member of the male population and you don’t shower every day, you are a hygienic menace to society. Social consequences of this are:
1. People avoid physical contact with you.
2. People who don’t know your name resort to refering to you as, “That guy who smells bad.”
3. People devote an entire hour of their day to write a blog post about you in the hopes that you’ll read it and change your grody ways.
It’s not a complicated system: if you’re planning on leaving your house, shower. If there’s any possibility that you’ll be doing physical activity, wear deodorant.
I recently read in someone else’s blog that the world would be a better place if everyone hugged tighter and longer. Though I agree with that statement in most cases, it’s certainly not true at all if the person you’re hugging tighter and longer is countering your natural instinct to breathe. Please head this advice. Thanks.
Sincerely,
David