Ahhh... The smell of the elderly.

There is nothing like it, a rather fetid mix of sweat, urine, excrement, and sometimes unchanged cat litter and decomposing trash. It cuts right through everything else killing any appetite you had, it overwhelms the lunch you just bought yourself and thought you were going to enjoy. At times like that you wish you were never born with an olfactory sense. And if you're extra lucky the odor stays in your nose for 30-40 minutes afterwards.

God dammit Granny, take a fucking bath.

No pics?

Where the hell are you encountering the smell of the elderly? Or, if you prefer, the smelderly?

I make a point not to smell people. They have to smell really bad or I have to be really close to catch a scent.

And sometimes people talk about bad breath. I don't smell people's breath. I don't put myself in a position to smell your breath.


Basically, I ain't tryin' to smell ya!

She sat in the booth behind me, she smelled that badly.

If she was a cartoon, there would be waves of stench coming off her.

That's politeness on your part. Nobody likes a mouth-sniffer.

Ed, don't eat at places where smelly old ladies eat.

That's good advice, it was at a Zaxby's though.

Jeeez!! Zappatizers, Zalads and Meal Dealz!!!

More than likely that woman was ill.

That is usually why some elderly people smell bad.

But she wasn't breastfeeding a child, so apparently it's completely appropriate for her to spread the stink of her illness across the restaurant.

I thought the smell of old people was that of Ben Gay and regret...

Well that's better than piss.

Reminds me (sort of) of a bad smell incident from way back. In Colorado Springs we had a young family in apartment building
that were NASTY. Kids crawling around in cigarette butts five layers of caked on food on their face 24/7 and so forth. We had no air conditioning,
so with windows open we could could smell their body funk wafting up sometimes.

One day her soldier husband was out on field training and she needed a ride to town. She got in my car and DAMN! I was floored by the smell
It was raining lightly, but I still tactfully rolled down my window to try to lessen the pain.

She got out and did her office business so I got a few minutes of BO break. When she returned and got in the car it seemed to have grown worse.
Anyway, it took me a few days to get her lingering smell out of the car.

That reminds me of a Seinfeld episode. Lucky for you, you didn't have to get rid of the car.

Why not? It's okay if a homeless person stinks up a cafe taking up a table all day after all.

Not any cafes that I know of.

Oh...that's a reference to when a bunch of people here ragged on Sokar for being pissed a homeless woman was stinking up his local Border's book cafe.

Was she hot, aside from the stank. Just asking because a hosing, soap, and a brush on a pole could fix that.

Oh

I can't speak for the others, but I was making fun of Courtney for trying to impress us with the snarky letter he wrote to the cafe manager, after years of telling us what a fearless, bad-ass tough guy he was.

I guess she was average looking. I'd have hit it, if I could run her through an industrial strength truck wash fifty times, and shot myself up with morphine and Viagra.
That family was so nasty if was THE FIRST TIME I have ever heard of a soldier's Company Commander inspecting a soldier's off-post living quarters because other soldiers were concerned about the welfare of their children. Normally they dog the shit out of barracks dwellers, but off-post soldiers are left alone and can live knee-deep in whisky, hookers and guns with no problem.

I think the dude got kicked out of The Army not too much later.

[Cleveland Brown]That's nastyyyyyyy[/Cleveland Brown]

Don't forget the smell of Listerine...