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Monday, August 25, 2008


Taking Personal Hygiene Too Far

To the grad student who practically lives in lab,

You know that you've slathered on too much perfume when you smell more strongly than the hazardous chemicals I'm working with in the hood. It's so noxious that I'm seriously considering a recommendation for using the emergency showers.

Thanks,
A grad student with fingers itching for a gas mask.


[posted by S. Y. Affolee on 1:45 PM : ]



Comments:
I teach, and I have a few students who either think that cologne replaces showering or who have so totally bought into those stupid "Axe" ads that they think any female within smelling distance will automatically drop panties upon contact with their prodigious pheromone stink.

Me? It just makes me hack and gag. And have to open my office windows.

I know they say that people in their late teens and early 20s don't have totally developed senses of smell yet, but I wish they'd realize that those of us around them who are closer to our 40s, DO.
 
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