What's the grossest example of personal hygiene that you've ever seen or smelled?

I used to work retail, and one day we had this woman come into the store who had not showered for months.

She stunk the whole store up from just walking around.

We had to ask her to leave due to hygiene.

I'll never forget that stench.

It was like low tide and a dead body had been sitting around for a month. When I worked at

a lingerie store, one of my first nights when I was still being supervised, a couple came in.

The man was scraggly and a bit dirty looking, and the woman looked very clean. But there was a

smell, a fishy smell, and my bus and I both assumed it was coming from the man. So we let the

woman try on a couple of sets.

Oh my God, we were wrong. We were so wrong. We had to air out the dressing room and steam clean the

lingerie. It was awful. I have a girlfriend who thought it was normal for guys to have

dingleberries. Poor girl was going down on a guy with matted poop fur down there.

Okay, this one out of all of them made me audibly gasp. What the frick! I had to Google

dingleberries. Oh, what the frick. I'm sitting in my living room by myself yelling out loud

at this one. I work in an ER in a low-income area. There was

this one that I'll never forget. She was a mid-40s, obese hoarder who had decided it wasn't

worth the effort to get out of her recliner for two weeks straight. She had a fridge within reach,

so she wasn't hungry, but was producing feces and urine the entire time without getting up to use the restroom or clean herself.

You could smell her down the hall with the door closed and her behind was literally rotting away with pressure sores down to her bones.

Oh, but how can you stand that?

Probably nerve damage and she'd slowly desensitized herself to being in that situation by building up behavior.

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