Okay, I get it, the gym is a place where the people are, at a minimum, motivated enough to go someplace they can put the effort into being in better shape. It would be nice to attract someone in a gym, and start something wonderful, have kids, and live happily ever afteruntil one of you dies alone, if that’s what you’re looking for.
Also, the gym is a place to get sweaty about staying in shape. If you’re like me, you go in to get a good workout and to do that you have to put some effort into it. If I’m going to get on a treadmill and run, then when I stop, I want to feel it.
I hope, in the end, all of this makes scents to you.
First, let us address those who are using the gym as a brick-and-mortar dating app. Men, there is a very good reason most quality gyms have a section devoted as a “Women Only” area, enclosed, with a locked door, and opaque windows.
You are that reason.
If you’re looking to strike up a conversation with a woman at the gyn, find the woman who is sitting on a piece of equipment, and has been for an hour, listening to music, looking bored and waiting for something to happen.
Women, if you’re going to sit on a piece of equipment, and you have been for an hour, listening to music, looking bored, and waiting for something to happen, do not wear perfume that comes packaged in a pump handled bug sprayer.
Yesterday, I walked by a woman in the gym that had been baptized in something that smelled like patchouli-based plutonium. My eyes literally teared up. Two thingshere, flower child. One, any man who can stand within a couple of feet of you has lost his sense of smell. Two, whatever you’re trying to cover up, if it’s that bad, seek medical help.
Men, if you’re going to go to a gym, stop and have a moment with the idea of showers. Most gyms have them. They have water. They have soap. There is a reason they have showers in gyms.
You are that reason.
There’s a difference between the smell of a human being who has worked out for an hour and dripping with sweat as opposed to the smell of a human being who does not shower on a regular basis.
The difference is the same as that between riding by a farm and enjoying the scent of freshly cut hay, and falling down in the middle of a pig stockyard and having to crawl out.
Women, the same gender who will bathe in perfume, universally will also shower on a regular basis. I’ve never been in the gym I go to and had a woman walk by and nearly gag me because she hasn’t showered since Ford was president. (Yes, there was a President Ford but no one remembers him.) Men are more likely to smell like they just escaped from a prison in that pig stockyard I mentioned earlier.
In closing, you ought to smell like a human being, not a flower. Also, you ought to smell like a human being who showers more often than a solar eclipse occurs.
Take Care, and Take Showers,
Mike
It’s a legitimate issue. I used to dread summer working in the grocery store. At least in colder weather people put on more clothes. In summer, people come in wearing little to nothing and showering infrequently. I wondered if they thought they would just get sweaty again so, why? Shower anyway. That coupled with boob money was a recipe for a bad day at IGA.
Working where I do now was no picnic either, there are people who don’t bathe their children all summer. They bring kids to their appointments smelling like feral dogs. They are in desperate need of a bath and some serious grooming. Is it like this in other parts of the country or is this a blessing for the South where the heat and humidity conspire to make sure our senses are still working?
Chick, kid are worse than parents when it comes to body odor. I worked with a guy that stank and one day the school called him to come get his kids.
The next day he came back to work raising hell about the school not paying his water bill so they couldn’t tell him to wash his kids.
President Ford is the only president we had that was not elected. At least every trivia buff should know this.
My mother-in-law told her daughters as they were growing up that when the use perfume, just use a petal. One Sunday, a woman that wore a lot of perfume sat near them–the youngest daughter said: “Mom, she’s wearing a whole garden!” My wife and her sisters always like to tell that story every now and then.
But I agree: people need to clean up when going out in to public and/or the gym. At least update the deodorant before leaving.
When going to the gym, I have not smelled anyone–either a bad smell or a perfumy smell. Then again, the gym is in a ritzy town (I usually walk past a few Teslas, Lexus, and Mercedes Benz vehicles in the parking lot), so maybe the others are more alert to smelling nice.
Tim,
I once joined one of those ten bucks a month gyms and it wasn’t worth that much. They had a get one month free deal and suddenly, people who had never set foot in a gym in their lives were just wandering it to look at the women, and the women fled. We wound up with guys in the gym just looking for a place to hang out, and some people in the gym who had no place to go, but could stay at the gym for ten bucks a month. I bailed out on that one, and it closed shortly after.