4 or 5 years ago on another board, I was involved in a discussion with liberals about conserving water the world was ending blah-blah-blah. Just so happened at that time, I had to work on the shower head(stem and all) in the bathroom. I bought a head that restricted flow to 1 and 1/2 gallons per minute, some galvanized pipe and a ball valve. OK, it looked awful but it was for a temporary experiment. I would plug the drain, turn the hot/cold on until temperature was right and then jump in the shower. I would pull the ball valve from time to time to use the shower or cut off the water. I would measure the water used after a bath to see how much I had used. I could get a good shower on as little as a gallon and half of water(that's 6 quarts). Of course that mess wasn't up but a few days before I had to install some chrome plumbing for the wife and son.
It was an interest experiment and I could do it all the time if I had too but normal people just ain't going to live like that.
I forget that from time to time people can knock you over from what they have eaten or drank.
Some times disease can make one smell like a wet dog.
Found one of these at work, woman who came to work with wet hair from her shower and dried her hair under the electric hand drier. This woman was clean to the max and used deodorant and body powder. Problem was at times she stank , waves of Oder would come off her.
This was a nice young woman, clean and neat, a mystery for a couple of years when we who liked the woman tried to track down what the problem was.
We finally began to see a pattern to the Oder appearing, when she began to get agitated, nervous or what not she began to sweat. Something in her chemical make up caused this smell.
We began to discuss if on a mild side this is how dogs know you fear them. Came about when she told us that for some reason dogs hated her and how afraid she was of them because of their reaction to her.
This does not have a happy ending, she at the age of 26 committed suicide.
On a happier side I sat next to a well dressed older man at the movies, wasn't long before I became ill, I do believe he had been eating peperoni and drinking rot gut red wine. I had to move before vomiting in my popcorn.
Since all this I have read of allergies to a food substance one is unaware of can cause metabolic changes in the body and come out as a putrid smell from the body pores.
This is why the perfume industry never looses money, I personally dislike any scent on a man that is not his. Goes back to my teen years and Haying on farms, the boys would sweat in the heat and become covered with the smell of hay. At the end of the day the farmers would bring us ice cold coke in glass bottles and we would all jump into the river to wash up.
I prefer a mild body Order to someone that has doused themselves with scent and makes my eyes water.
