I sware this one kid that was dropped off at work tonight hadn't bathed in a month. Ok, yeah, maybe he was just a smelly kid, but I mean I could smell him from across the room. And I knew it was him because he came behind the counter.. and I mean, literaly, my eyes started to tear up. I couldn't breath. He was that bad.

I was *so* close to telling his mother to just take him home and stick him under hot running water for an hour, scrubbing him with soap.

I was so thankful when he left, I didn't know how long I could bare it. Hell, he didn't even flush when he used the potty, nor washed his hands. I mean, 4 or 5, ok yeah, I can forgive that, but he was 8. (sware he looks 10 though) I had to cover my nose when I went to check after he was done, to flush. And use *alot* of air freshiner.

BATHE YOUR DAMNED KIDS PEOPLE!!! Or atleast start usin deoderant. Damn.

Unless they move or something.

But! At that age he should be using Deoderant, and showering at least once a week

and i've been doing it ever since.

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Nobody really understood why Kinanik wrote:
Studies show that if you bathe your kid to much when they're an infant, they are more likely to get Asthma. You keep the kids from having natural defences.

But! At that age he should be using Deoderant, and showering at least once a week

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I agree. But he smelled like he hadn't showered in a month, atleast. Nor has ever used deoderant. Showering *too* much may be bad for the defences.. but not showering at all can be just as bad. Infections, sores... the smell... >.<

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Kinanik stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Studies show that if you bathe your kid to much when they're an infant, they are more likely to get Asthma. You keep the kids from having natural defences.

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Sounds like an old wives tale to me. Last I checked athesma was genetic.

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Id had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
mabey u could just send some sope with him to his pairents

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Grammar whore in five.. four.. three..

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Maradön² had this to say about Cuba:
Sounds like an old wives tale to me. Last I checked athesma was genetic.

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Not totaly. Some cases are, and some cases develoup due to the child being in an overly steril inviroment, so his/her body doesn't build up tolorances and such.

I don't know how many times I stress to parents that germ exposure is *good* for their children...

Working at a Day Care center would be GREAT fun if not for this 8 year old child named John. He's become a destructive whirlwind that kicks/hits/bites all who come into contact with him. When held down on a chair forcibly, he goes limp. When questioned about why he just kicked over someone's lego set, he stares at you vacantly until replying: "Can we go to the libary?" (Note: Libary is NOT a typo, it's how he says it.) When taken outside; John Always, ALWAYS runs over to the nearest pile of dirt, and proceeds to roll around in it while pulling his shoes and socks off. Yesterday going outside with him proved to start a disturbing trend: He pissed on the side of the building! After another interrogation of why he did that; I got: "Where's Mr. Alan?" (*Sad but true fact: I'M Mr. Alan!)

Now, I've got nothing against the mentally disabled/handicapped; but the fact is that John shouldn't be in this school. The day care center I work at is NOT made/staffed for an autistic child. But, because he's never been given a blood test, his parents INSIST that he's not autistic, he's just different...

So: Smelly kid < Autistic kid with parents in denial.

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Rodent King had this to say about Tron:
Yeah, you've got to worry about smely kids at your work; while I'M given the loathesome job of watching: an austistic child!

Working at a Day Care center would be GREAT fun if not for this 8 year old child named John. He's become a destructive whirlwind that kicks/hits/bites all who come into contact with him. When held down on a chair forcibly, he goes limp. When questioned about why he just kicked over someone's lego set, he stares at you vacantly until replying: "Can we go to the libary?" (Note: Libary is NOT a typo, it's how he says it.) When taken outside; John Always, ALWAYS runs over to the nearest pile of dirt, and proceeds to roll around in it while pulling his shoes and socks off. Yesterday going outside with him proved to start a disturbing trend: He pissed on the side of the building! After another interrogation of why he did that; I got: "Where's Mr. Alan?" (*Sad but true fact: I'M Mr. Alan!)

Now, I've got nothing against the mentally disabled/handicapped; but the fact is that John shouldn't be in this school. The day care center I work at is NOT made/staffed for an autistic child. But, because he's never been given a blood test, his parents INSIST that he's not autistic, he's just different...

So: Smelly kid < Autistic kid with parents in denial.

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Hmm should I meansion my previous job of working with children with severe ADD, parents who use it as a crutch... Won't get them on medication, and bitch to me when I try to control thier overly aggressive selves. (like, time outs...)

Should I also mension my job as a home health aid.. dealing with people who can hardly take care of themselves, with family members bitching at me for being there, becuase they think their loved one is fine.. (though it was the state who wanted my agency to send me there..

Should I mension the hordes of Soccormoms I deal with in a day at work....

Rodent.. all the the work I've gone through > your one autistic child. Since you felt it necssary to put it like that.

Move the hell along, and take your self rightous self out of my thread.

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This insanity brought to you by Delphi Aegis:
Grammar whore in five.. four.. three..

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Trying to walk an 85 year old lady on how to format her computer, is worse than anything you could ever realise.

First, there was the whole ordeal of explaining that she's going to lose everything in it but only get back what it came with. She doesn't understand that. She doesn't know what it came with and what it didn't. She asked fifteen times if she'll lose some third party program (Some geneology program) and I told her fifteen times, yes. And when she said she didn't want to, I told her fifteen times that if we didn't, she wouldn't be able to use it anyways (Error in question was a 'Windows protection error'. God, Windows ME is the worst shit MS ever produced).

Then, we got to the startup disk. Half an hour to get her startup disk created. This lady seemed to have difficulty figuring out basic machines. I think she must have her family on speed dial for whenever she runs her washing machine. I pity them.

Once the startup disk was created, was the worst experience of my tech support life : Talking a very, very old woman who has NO clue how to use her computer, how to use debug to wipe a partition completely (I wanted to use fdisk, but goddamn GATEWAY policy at the time was to use debug to be 'thorough'). Once we did that, fdisk had to be run, at which point she would not let me go. Then, we went on to the format, and I managed to get her off the phone.

Total time spent on the phone with this lady : 6 hours, 40 something minutes (I forget the exact count).

And because the system tries to route calls back to the person that took them initially, after my 45 minute break+Lunch, I got her back and we got to install windows! And her drivers.

Total time on those : Just under 4 hours.

I took two calls that day. She was both of them. It was worse than having my teeth pulled. It was worse than a full frontal lobotomy. She did not understand the concept behind a 'power button' on the screen being different from the 'power button' on the computer. She did not understand that a CD that says 'Microsoft Office 98' was different than 'Windows 98'. She was so slow, it took us no less than SEVEN tries before she was able to boot into safe mode (Because she didn't hit F8 fast enough).

That... my friends... is the truest torture out there. Nothing can compare with the pain that comes from talking very, very old and very, very old fashioned people... through fixing a computer.

"But this one has *insert crap here! Only $550!"

"I want the $70 one."

"This one has extra reinforcement for offroaders! perfect for you! $375!"

"Seventy. Dollar. Unit. Rightthere!"

"But what abou-"

"No!@%"

The conversation to get that one subwoofer took almost an hour and three laps around the store >_<

You think you have it bad!#% Try having the ability and the warrant to strangle someone, but having to contain yourself because there was whiny public peoples nearby

Note: I know, it aint as bad. I had to post my sob story too though. I was feeling left out!

.. Umm.. Yeah. I win?

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SuchiiMarine! wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Get a strap wrench and a socket set. Viola. Saved yourself a wad of cash right there.

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My car sucks. Like, seriously. And I have an aversion to dirt and stuff. So I let them do it.

And I get a tootsie pop afterwards, too!

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SuchiiMarine! had this to say about pies:
Get a strap wrench and a socket set. Viola. Saved yourself a wad of cash right there.

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I come from a family of 'do-it-yourselfers'. If anyone even SUGGESTS the possibility of not changing your own oil around them, I think they'd be lynched.

I guess that's one of the reasons why me, Mistar Dork Person, got the highest grade in Auto Shop.

Knowing me, I'd probably strip a very important nut on my car, or something.

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Everyone wondered WTF when Delphi Aegis wrote:
My car sucks. Like, seriously. And I have an aversion to dirt and stuff. So I let them do it.

And I get a tootsie pop afterwards, too!

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Being dirty and greasy and tired has to be the (second) greatest feeling in the world ^_^ Nothing like knowing you did some good honest work to fix the shit you up and broke all by your lonesome

I want to see pics of you covered in oil and gravel, and I want to see them now!#%

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Delphi Aegis enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
I see it as helping keep our local economy good. Sure, I could go to the Jiffylube just down the street that opened up not 2 months ago.. but that aint fun.. or something.

Knowing me, I'd probably strip a very important nut on my car, or something.

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You have to undo ONE bolt to drain your oil. Then just take off your oil filter, and screw on a new one.

NOTHING TO IT!#%^^

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The logic train ran off the tracks when SuchiiMarine! said:
You have to undo ONE bolt to drain your oil. Then just take off your oil filter, and screw on a new one.

NOTHING TO IT!#%^^

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You want to see me covered in what? .. Er.. No, sorry, I tend to shy away from texas beatdowns.

Besides, I'm planning a trip early september, and it's better to let people who have been servicing engines for years check over the engine and stuff then to learn about it myself. Or something.

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Lyinar Ka`Bael had this to say about Duck Tales:
*watches the wangs wave on both sides*

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Gee I'm sorry, last thing I need is some upstart pissing me off with his "mine's worse then yours" shit. ESPECIALY when this post wasn't ment to hold that kind of an additude. I gripe about one kid out of the hundreds I deal with that make me want to throttel their parents, and sometimes themselves...

[blank] > [blank] is an ongoing joke here, so mabey he was just actually, you know, using it.

YEAH! Well, today I had to get up at noon, sit around and then went to a movie with a friend! SCREW YOU ALL!

What's worse is when kids get to high school. Whoever thought up the idea of a communal shower is smoking bad weed. Teenaged guys (can't speak for teenaged girls) don't want to wash in front of other guys. Too easy to end up getting teased. I guarantee if you set up little shower stalls, and gave guys more than five minutes to change from gym clothes to school clothes, more guys would wash up after phys. ed. I imagine it's similar with girls to some extent. Guy gets done with gym, chances are he towels off and sprays on some new deodorant. If he had gym in the morning, that is going to be one smelly dude by the afternoon. I, thankfully, always had gym in the afternoon so I didn't have time to get stinky before I got home and could grab a shower.

Fact is if you sweat all day, you need a shower. In hot days, kids need baths more often, and in hot days adults and teenagers need more showers. Some days around here have gotten so hot and muggy that I've needed to take three showers in a day to feel clean, and I don't think anything more of it. One in the morning, one in the afternoon, one at night. If I had a kid and it was hot and muggy out for several days, that kid would be getting baths.

Sweat is sweat. It's moisture in dark places. That's all the stink-producing bacteria needs to get moving.

What gets me is that some OLDER people don't seem to get that. I understand that to some older people, there's the fear of falling in the tub. My grandmother fell in the tub and was lucky she didn't break anything and it was very scary for her. But it didn't keep her from taking daily showers, and she's almost ninety years old. But man...some older folks STINK. Sixty year old folks...it's like they think once they retire they don't need to washy washy. Were two or three when I worked at the convenience store who came in and just smelled foul.

Washies are important.

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Geeorn had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Aani, try to consider that mabey Rodent King was just giving his own sob story here. nothing more, nothing less.

[blank] > [blank] is an ongoing joke here, so mabey he was just actually, you know, using it.

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I still did not appreciate it. I would have sympathised with him UNTIL he pulled that > thing. Even if he had been the one to start a post just to place out a stress moment, I would have had the courticy NOT to belittle him by doing what he did. I would have sympathised with him because I know how stressful working with children is.

It *might* be an ongoing joke... but some times it can be quite offensive. Especialy when it comes off to someone as being used to belittle them.

Yeah, I kinda didn't read the thread, but I figured it applied somehow.

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Kloie had this to say about Captain Planet:
There is a boy who goes to my school who very obviously does not bathe regularly.

Yeah, I kinda didn't read the thread, but I figured it applied somehow.

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I once went to a camp that had a kid that didn't bathe during the week.

Seeing how this camp keeps you outside for more than 7 hours a day, this wasn't a good idea.

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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
BIG DETH ESSAY ABOUT TAKING SHOWERS AT SCHOOL

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My first High School PE class was Swimming. And we had to wear speedos. By the time it came to showering for Gym class I was way past the "shy" part of showering in front of other guys. The speedos leave little to the imagination.

Of course I am rather heavily *ahem* endowed, so I never experienced teasing on that regard.

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Lady Snoota had this to say about Tron:
My first High School PE class was Swimming. And we had to wear speedos. By the time it came to showering for Gym class I was way past the "shy" part of showering in front of other guys. The speedos leave little to the imagination.

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No swimming classes in my high school. Wish there had been. I was a great swimmer. Had my lifeguard certification.

And I think, us girls have a much easier time in communal showers, just from my experience.

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This insanity brought to you by Khyron:
I come from a family of 'do-it-yourselfers'. If anyone even SUGGESTS the possibility of not changing your own oil around them, I think they'd be lynched.
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My family is like that, but with my truck and my dads, it's cheaper to go get it done at a gas station, they charge flat rates and the trucks take a bit of oil, my Dad's Dodge takes like 3-4 gallons of oil.

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