When SOF won’t shower I threaten to take her outside and use the hose.

So my mom said to my brother, “Have you ever gotten a whiff of someone who walks by you with really bad B.O.?” And lo And behold he goes and buys a can of Axe! The next time I saw him he smelled fine.

Thankfully I come from a sporty family so showers were necessary and frequent, plus kind of a group activity for the blokes so there would have been social censure if they weren’t having one. I’m incredibly grateful for that fact now because all of that above sounds awful.

On the plus side I finished my drive incident free and am treating myself to a beer at a lovely historic pub near my hotel. Cheers!

haha this conversation of ‘bad man smell’ is too funny!

When I was younger and living at home, my brothers shared a room. Every time I walked by or had to go in to talk to them it just REEKED. I didn’t understand why their room was so nasty until later in life when I learned about hormones

Mind you, now that all three of us are more athletic we shower way more often. I actually hated showering as a kid, no idea why. But I did not smell as bad as them…at least no one told me haha

@Cleopatra_30 Growing up one of my best friends hated showering! One summer after my family had moved away, I visited and spent a couple weeks with her. We were maybe 12-13? And her mom had to nag her to shower. And she’d lie about it. So weird! (She grew out of it.)

Things with BG are still going really well! I had some of my oldest friends in town for five days a little over a week ago, who I’ve known since I lived overseas as a tween/teen. BG had a work trip followed immediately by a quick weekend trip, but he was able to meet them one of the nights he was in town and I’m really glad he did. I only see these friends maybe once a year at this point, sometimes less. We had a really nice night in on Friday (so much wine!) and it was the first sleepover where we could actually enjoy a lazy morning together. We made breakfast and ate it in his little sun room that faces his backyard and geeked out to podcasts and watched the snow fall. It was pretty snow for once! He invited me to his mom’s holiday party in a few weekends, but I guess she’s excited to meet me and suggested she and his stepdad come into the city for drinks or dinner the week after thanksgiving. I am a little nervous — it’s been like five years since I’ve met anyone’s parents.

@Copa I am in my later 30s and meeting parents still terrifies me. Two of my serious boyfriends, well the only two serious ones, had truly awful mother’s who hated me for my mere existence. Even when they were nice as I dated later in life i carried that fear with me. I can be a very outgoing person but with parents I just clam up now. But yah it sounds like they want to meet you are I am sure it’ll go great!