Anybody remember that kid in middle or elementary school that stunk?

It's ok. The important thing is you don't stink now. Those nightmares will go away - one day.

 

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Wow, "Indian Style"...I haven't heard that phrase in about 17 years...God, I'm old...

 

LOL.........He is a young buck A-Train.........I dont remembering him smelling that bad............I smelled like sweat in class because we would play football on the side of the school (late 70's-early 80's) before it started....the teacher would tell us that it smelled like sweat in her class.......we were 8-11 at the time........I blame my parents for letting me get hooked on football at an early age.......damnit mom....I was that kid!

 

LMAO. I knew like 4 guys like that. They always smelled weird, but after going over to their house, I understood why...they smelled like their houses.

 

I have a friend who teaches sixth grade, and sometimes she and her fellow teachers call these kids "the stinkers" -- not for their behavior but because so many of them smell.

She claims that kids go through all these intense chemical changes right before they become teens, and the smell is in part all about these chemicals. I dunno.

I remember a kid on the bus who smelled so strongly of dead shrimp that we would hold our heads out the windows. Nice kid too, but he worked a shrimp boat early every morning with his dad before going to school.

 

Oh yeah I know man....I was kidding around...I also knew a couple of them kids. I remember once I went to one their homes and it was filthy......The mom was a smoker and the house was a mess....The father was locked up in jail or something......I felt sorry for this kid....he smelled bad and was always dirty......but still remained friendly to him until they moved....hey JBII, I hope you are doing well in school......

 

The kid that stunk in my middle school was stinky because his family was so poor, they bathed in the canal behind their house.

I remember the person that got his name for Christmas gift exchange gave him a few bars of soap!

Even worse that same kid that stunk so bad, hung himself in Jr. High because of his families terrible poverty and his sad life.


True story.

 

Your thread title reminded me of a kid I met just prior to 5th grade in 1964.

We had just moved into a new neighborhood. My brother and I were just hanging around with some of the neighborhood kids.

Up rode this kid on a bike. Several of the kids started chanting, "Here comes Odor!" Turns out that "Odor" was an avid fisherman so he always had the odor of worms and fish on his hands.

Cut to 1978, I'm a first year high school teacher. Come late Fall, every morning there is a strong, strong odor of something that smells like bacon grease. I am totally baffled by this phenomenon until someone explains that this family heats their home with wood.

 

Those were the dudes that wore the same pants 5 days in a row. I really did feel bad for them - thinking why they didnt have more than 1 pair of jeans.....

 

reminds me of my fifth grade teacher, mrs cummings. she taught every single one of her students the value of wearing DEODERANT.

on a similar note, i am a coordinator at an after school program in Manhattan, one of the girls name is Ildico, emphasis on the "Ill".


we call her "Smelldico". god thats terrible i just said that. oh well the girl has stunk since she was in 8, she is in fifth grade now and she better learn quick about hygiene or she is in for a rough adolescence.


this post is hilarious

 

I always felt bad because the smelly people were always some of the nicest people. I didn't want to be mean or anything, so I just left it alone and breathed through my mouth.

 

I don't really remember any STINKY kids, but I remember this one kid who wore boots and always seemed to get mud into the classroom. The teacher always made him clean it up. I didn't how he did it, especially on the driest days, but he did it. You could always count on him.

 

I WAS that kid.

 

Hey it doesn't stop in middle school. There is a guy in the office where I work that stinks. But he only stinks every few days. I think his showing is not a daily ritual.

He's foreign (from India), so maybe he was raised that way, I don't know...

 

Stinky adults just should not happen. Poor guy. Well, poor *you* really!

 

What does that have anything to do with being an Indian? I'm from India and I shower pretty much everyday. Sometimes twice a day.

I've seen plenty of white people, black people, Mexicans, Indians, Chinese, etc that stink. I dont think it has anything to do with where you are from. Some people are just stinky damnit!

 

I guess he meant that most places in India stinks, and that's partly true, if you ever actually been to India, then you know what I'm talking about.

Even the roads in their capital are filled with cow poos, and the bath water in their hotel are yellow-colored. That country really is a nightmare for squeamish.

 

No, I hear ya. There's stinky people all over the earth. My point is not that since he is from India, he stinks. It's more that since he's foreign, perhaps he wasn't raised in the "shower and use deodorant" environment that many of us were raised in here in the US.