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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I've noticed that people seem to be incapable of smelling their own b.o. I won't rant about cabbies (again), but sometimes you get in a cab and your eyes literally start to tear from the stench. They don't smell it at all.
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Well, you do get accustomed to the smell, so I suppose that's the explanation for the cabbies. (One time before Times Square became family-friendly, I went to one of those video arcade places at lunchtime with some friends from work, and it smelled like piss on the way in. When we left, one of my friends said out loud exactly what I'd been thinking; namely, "I'd hate to think I can become immune to the smell of rancid piss, but I know I smelled it on the way in...". Didn't notice it at all on the way out.)
But my point (and I do have one), is that when I can smell my own b.o., I know it must be ghastly, because you speak a foul truth (ha ha). Ordinarily, one cannot smell one's own b.o.; therefore, if one can, it must be unusually repellent.
