Does stink float? Or does it just melt right in?
Either way, a Dutch bath house has banned some old codger from their swimming pool because his body odor was too annoying. The unnamed 66-year-old was a three-times-a-week visitor at the De Zeehond baths who always wore the same shirt and trousers. Manager Peter van Vierssem said: "The smell was unbearable. We argued with him about it for a whole year. We asked him to wash his clothes and even sent him letters, but nothing helped." So they 86'd the guy. Can you imagine how bad the dirty old man is going to smell a year from now? People are going to be asking their pet skunks to fart just so they can get a whiff of fresh air.
At my gym, we never face this problem. Clean or foul, we are all expected to shower before entering the pool. We're smarter than Dutch people, evidently. Cleaner, too.
But there was one guy at my high school with the same problem. In 30 years, I'm going to start scouring the newspapers in towns with Dutch baths to see if he gets banned, too.
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