Stink!

Can you even imagine what it was like back in the day? Before people wore underwear? Before Zest, Secret and Crest. Wow. I know everybody smelled the same but wasn't there one person who thought, "Good god is that coming from me?" How did those people know when something was rotten if everything smelled rotten? In movies you see nasty cowboys coming in for a once a month bath and a shave. Side bar: Gina just farted. The B.O. must have been horrendous. Rotten teeth, bad breath. It's overwhelming. What point in time did we realize that we stunk? When did showering and a fresh pair of underpants every day begin? When my dad was a kid the boys all slept in one bed and the girls in another. He tells us of how someone would always pee in the bed. Stink. When they had head lice or bed bugs his mother would put kerosene on their heads. Super stink. Here come the Keagle kids. Run for you lives or grab a clothespin. That was in the early 30's. So people still smelled bad that far along in time. What about today? How many times have you walked past someone at Meijer's and almost passed out? That's just nasty. In pictures Jesus never looked like he stunk. He always looked clean and fresh but then he was Jesus. I have to wonder how I would have managed living in a time before a sprinkle a day helped keep odor away. I just don't do bad smells. Would I have embraced the aroma of a simpler time? No. Absolutely not. You don't embrace stink. You simply wash it away.