Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/07/2023
I don’t usually do this, but the Memo this week is a reprint of my August 4 blog post. I’m interested in the wisdom of my Monday Morning readers about this.
I believe in good grooming. I think most people take care of their health as best they can, and that includes bad breath, body odor, and, ah, so forth. In fact, it’s quite an exception to be at work or in an elevator or at an event and find yourself gasping because of someone’s body odor or personal uncleanliness. (I’ve been on some crowded buses and subways earlier in my life which would be an exception, but I wouldn’t know how to take a bus today.) I make no exemptions here by biology, anatomy, identity or any other word ending in “y.”
Yet, with an abrupt invasion, along comes Lume which advertises it’s for the complete body, “in all cracks,” under bosoms (my word not theirs), and for women especially, “everything at the waist and below.” it is marketed “for private parts.”
And just this morning the Times (no less) ran an investigation and ranking of the best “travel underwear.” What does that mean? Driving? Public transportation on the commute? Flying to Amalfi? Well, it turns out they measured (I am not making this up) “dampness absorption,” retention of odor, and “wick” effectiveness. (That means “to draw off liquid by capillary action.”)
I know that people pee in pools, and that incontinence is a serious problem for some folks. But are people peeing their pants on the way to work, on escalators, or in airplane seats because they’re too lazy to go to the lavatory (or can’t get by the snoring, larger person on the aisle)?
Have I an unnoticed olfactory deficit, whereby I’ve missed all these odors, smells, and stinks among my fellow travelers? (I have a physical exam twice a year, but I don’t recall any doctor ever specifically testing my ability to smell obnoxious odors. Maybe that’s a blessing?)
In any case, I may be somewhat behind the stench curve here, but I haven’t experienced some rise in toxic human emissions that demands that we cover our bodies in Lume, or aloe, or Jack Daniels (which is for internal consumption only). But the next time you’re with me, well, I may just take a sniff or two to see if you’re properly wicked.
Recall the great “transactional analysis” manifesto, I’m Okay, You’re Okay by Thomas Harris. I’m thinking of a sequel: I’m Okay, You Stink.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. —Benjamin Franklin
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? —Erma Bombeck
I judge people on how they smell, not how they look. —Jennifer Lopez
I love the smell of the waves traveling from the horizon and slamming into the Nantucket shore early in the morning, reeking of fish and mystery. More people have walked on the moon than gone to the deepest depths of the ocean. —Alan Weiss
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