Re: Help: Hygiene

[ENGL-DMC@nich-nsunet.nich.edu]

Donna,

Considering your problem of hygiene. . .

When I was a graduate student we had a similar problem with one of 
our fellow G.A.'s. The gentleman just seemed to have an aversion to 
soap. We elected a spokesperson who spoke with our dept. head, our 
grad. coordinator, and the student. The dept. head and grad 
coordinator also spoke with the grad student. The student (one of 
those strange creative writing types) listened, shrugged, and 
claimed constitutional rights. He made an "issue" of it. 

So we struck back. We wore masks in his presence and carried cans of 
Lysol to classes we shared with him. If we had to work in groups 
with him, we put dabs of Vick's salve under our noises like coroners 
do when working with decaying corpses (he knew about this; he wrote 
horror fiction). And we daily put bars of soap, sticks of deoderant, 
and cheap bottles of aftershave in his mailbox (we figured cheap 
aftershave was better than the B.O. he was putting out).

Eventually, he graduated. And we fumigated his office.
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