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At one workplace where we had employee lockers, during lunch break we went and bought a stick of deodorant and then shoved it into the stinky co-workers locker anonymously. He never stunk after that!

Jazzy just be honest with her!

She may thank you a thousand times..

JustErin said:

I know that is right! That what happened to this girl that I went to school with one day in class. She was very funky and some of the girls acted like, "Someone needs to wash their ass because I am getting tired of smelling their funky smell." She know they was talking about her and damn she look like she was going to cry, her face was redden. But I know after that happened, she came to school smelling okay though.





I had a friend like that too. I didnt want to hurt her feelings so I would just ofter her gum and breath mints. I know that it is a cop-out but I just can't hurt people feelings like that though. That what people did too when I was in high school.
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For real the best thing is to be honest but tell them in a friendly, caring way if you have the balls to do it.
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ladygirl99 said:

how sad.

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As you're talking to her, just be like "Oh my god, what is that horrible smell?? Do you smell that too?" and pretend like you think it's something in the room that reeks, and not her. If it's because she didn't take a bath, she'll know it's her and that other people can smell it even if it's not that noticeable to her.

I work with a guy that's a health freak and goes home for lunch each day and purees garlic and drinks it raw. He comes in the office and stinks the place to high hell. It doesn't even smell like garlic, it's like this rancid rotting flesh smell. We've actually had staff meetings and confronted him about it, he just refuses to stop doing it, so we have to suffer (he's OCD too).

DanceWme said:

I remember in 7th grade gym class, this girl (won't say her name, but I haven't seen her since middle school, so it probably wouldn't matter much) had this fishy smell most of the time. I guess in gym with all of that physical activity going on, the smell would be more obvious. All of the girls noticed it, so some of them got together and mentioned it to the gym teacher. The teacher pulled her aside while some of the girls were watching and talked to her about hygiene. I felt kinda bad for her. I thought the teacher shouldn't have done it with a few girls watching....she should've talked to her in her office. I wouldn't know how to tell a person that to be honest. A person with bad breath would be a little easier to handle.

It's interesting to note the different schools of thought regarding the addressing of this issue: being direct, and telling the young lady honestly but kindly that she has a noticeable body odour issue; vs. taking an indirect approach and feigning confusion - "What smells in here? Do you smell that?" - as to the origins of the offensive odour and hoping she takes the hint.

I'm wondering, is the differences in opinion about how to handle this situation rooted in trying to lessen the young lady's embarassment, or from wanting to avoid the awkwardness factor of communicating to the young lady the existence of the odour problem?

AnckSuNamun said:

We had a teacher who addressed the whole class "Someone in here smells, I won't say who" but it made all of us question our own hygene--well, everyone except the person who stank, probably!

FunkMistress said:

I forgot the medical term.....but there's no cure for it. It must be horrible to have to live with that.

NDRU said:

That's fucked up and totally unprofessional

AnckSuNamun said:

that sounds like her
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emm said:

but it is overwhelming. I probably couldn't be in a closed room with her, it's that bad.

The thing is, she never used to smell this bad...it's only been in the last few months.

Anyhow, thank you everyone for their advice. I guess I'll just take her aside and try to tell her in the nicest way possible.

NDRU said:

omg our drama teacher did that to our class too!

and he used to SMOKE while he taught class HE was the STINKER

DanceWme said:

lol you wrong

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Hang one of these on her next time she passes by

ZombieKitten said:

thats some cold shit.....

when I see a story on the news about someone getting mauled by a pack of vicious dogs because they smelled like bacon treats, I'll remember this post....

ZombieKitten said:

omg.

one of my friends told me that he was going to buy her a car airfreshener for her to wear around her neck. That's when I decided that something needs to be done.

ZombieKitten said:

Teachers are so twisted sometimes. We had one who told a girl her hair looked like a rat's nest.

And then there was the Phys Ed teacher who put all the girls in front so he could watch them do jumping jacks

Has anyone else noticed that people who drink heavily tend to give off some bad body odor as well? I guess it has something to do with all the toxins in their system or something.

Tom said:

drink & pills

Tom said:

I can always tell who's had a long weekend drinking when our unit goes on a 3-4 mile run during physical training.....smells like

AnckSuNamun said:

that was talked about on the tyra banks show.

someone said that about this girl at my old school, and she said she knows. Don't you think they know about it.....just leave the room or ignore the funk.

Just be honest.... Tell her upfront that the shit coming out of your ass smells nicer than her.

i aint bein funny but, you smell like the Shane McGowens mouth organ

JasmineFire said:

lol i have no doubt it is overwhelming
i was just trying to be lighthearted about the situation in that perhaps using
that specific word to describe her b.o. to her might be too much for her to take

let us know if you've broached it with her