"How much for the little girl? How much for the women?"
Posted on 01/30/2013 1:52:25 PM PST by Red Badger
A French family were ordered to leave one of Paris's most popular museums because their body odour was annoying other visitors.
The couple and a young child were on a free trip to the Musee d'Orsay with a charity that supports hard-up families.
As the group browsed a room with paintings by Van Gogh, security guards told them they had to leave the building because people were "complaining about their smell".
The worker with the Act for Dignity charity said: "I argued with the security man, telling him the family were all decent and properly dressed.
"Not a single other person had complained about us so I refute the idea that it was their smell.
"We moved on to another room, but we were again met by four museum guards who ordered us out of the building."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I really don’t understand people like that. Anyone who’s ever gotten a bad case of the flu and felt so weak and sick they had to skip showering knows the result. You feel sticky and gross, just after a single day of no soap and water. How some folks can go like that indefinitely is beyond me.
I guess that's why they eat cheese that smells like old gym socks.........
Ha ha.
Wait, I think I’d like the smell of a Hickory Farms store...
When I was in Berlin a few years back, on business, we stayed in a B&B Inn in Gatow, by the Luftwaffe Air Base.
The maid told me she was amazed that Americans were so clean, because we took baths EVERY NIGHT. She knew because she had to replace the towels every day...........
Why? They use soap?
No mention of race, nationality, OR religion......
Too smelly even for the French (know what bidets are for?)...
Get my drift.....?
Bidet? Oh, you mean the handy drinking fountains in the toilette?.......
If I go a day without an AM shower I hate life. Happens less than once per year.
No, they’re used to wash vegetables.
;^)
No, they’re used to wash vegetables.
;^)
LOL....very good
On my first trip to Paris in about 1963, I took the elevator up in the Eiffel Tower. It was a big elevator and my family shared it with a group of about 20 school girls about 4th grade age. They were nicely dressed in school uniforms but the smell was horrible. I doubt if they had bathed or had their hair shampooed in months. I am thankful that they were not adults.
Same here I take a shower every morning, no matter what! I probably will drag myself out of my death bed to take a shower and a shampoo.
Sort of depends how oily and sweaty your skin is.
My MIL is a doctor and scrupulously clean and well-groomed. She has very dry skin and takes one lukewarm bath, with bath oil, every week.
Before adolescence, children aren’t smelly. The children in my daughter’s fifth grade less express disgust that anyone might shower less than once, or maybe even twice daily, and it has to be a shower, because a bath is sitting in your own soup. Peer pressure. They have no idea that my dry-skinned daughter takes a bath when she feels like it, which is maybe every ten days or so.
And yes, she is almost at the age when I bought my older children deodorant and said, you need to start showering a whole lot more often. But not yet.
My skin tends toward dryness, too, especially in the winter, but I have to shower daily, sorry. I personally share the kids’ opinion about baths, but that’s just my thing.
I had a long flight on an Air France flight from LA to Tahiti. Not only did everyone smell just fine, but the restrooms were stocked with fabulous smelling french soaps and lotions. Memorable.
I actually developed a taste for these ghastly things back in the day. But not for long, as I was accused of smoking old sweat socks. Hardly ladylike.
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