[pepsionice]

In basic training...we had a guy dropped back into our flight for various reasons. About six days after he arrived...it’d become apparent that he simply wasn’t taking showers. He’d shave...but he absolutely didn’t take a shower. We had three guys go up together to “stinky” and just lay it out that they’d help him in the morning...to reach the shower, and he wouldn’t leave the shower until he did what he was supposed to do. We didn’t have a problem after that.

I imagine that “stinky” lasted out four years and left the military. And maybe he just never took a shower after basic training. We just don’t know.

Some people just need encouragement.

[Yorlik803]

I working with a guy that smelt really,really bad. Finally a co worker told him that he smelled like Bigfoots jockstrap. Stinky replied that he hadnt washed his work pants in three weeks.
I dont know why people shun soap and water..if not for their sake then for the poor souls who have to smell the stench.

[Mercat]

I remember a family canoeing trip. One of our sons wouldn’t bath in the river. He had gotten to the age where that was a problem. So we ambushed him, tipped him out of the canoe and I had the soap ready. I had forgotten that. On a hiking trip, perhaps afraid we would do that again, he stripped down and skinny dipped in a mountain stream, dancing around. Sadly, no camera.

[RedMonqey]

In basic training...we had a guy... absolutely didn’t take a shower.

My father had the same problem with a guy in his unit that refused to bath. Before they were shipped to Korea and not wishing to spend the whole voyage in close quarters with their "Stinky," some of the boys ganged up on him and with "Stinky," kicking and screaming, gave him a "dry scrub" bath.(Soap, an brush but no water)

They scrubbed not only the filth off but a couple of layers of skin as well.

Pop used to get a chuckled out of that story and it was used as an a reminder for us boys if we scrimped on the soap and water..

[cpa4you]

I worked for Coopers & Lybrand in the early 70s. (One of the largest international CPA/consulting firms.) We shared offices with between two and four people. We had a guy we actually called “Stinky” with whom no one wanted to share office space.

Even after being counseled, he just wouldn’t bath. He really did reek! Never could understand how a well educated white kid could not understand about hygiene!?

You’d think that a guy, after discovering women, would try to put together then most desirable package. Maybe we should have “found” him a girlfriend?!

[Tahoe3002]

Same sort of thing happened in my platoon in San Diego. The recruit was ‘bathed’ by 3-4 other recruits with Wisk and scrub brushes. Looked like he was sunburned the next day.

Later found out he was from Arkansas and bathing was something his family did only on occasion, I don't think they even had indoor plumbing. Bathing just was NOT part of his life experience.......but he changed!

[Rebelbase]

I worked in a warehouse with a smelly guy who was so rank you could tell which aisles he’d walked though for several minutes after he’d been there.

The manager talked to him several times about it to no avail and eventually fired him.