Dear Poor Lucky Me,
I bought a weirdly scented deodorant at Walgreens last week. It’s like a flowery, perfumey smell that mixes badly with my natural odor, and by 5 pm I’ve really got a funk about me.
So yesterday, I threw the deodorant in the garbage, and went au natural. I’m a smallish woman and have a sedentary job, but it is the summer. This time by 5 pm I smelled like a European on a bus ride.
What’s worse: weird flower funk or hot human smell?
With Love,
A Receptionist
Dear A Receptionist,
I think hot human smell is was better than flower funk. However, as an American and a receptionist you have a responsibility to mask your body odor with deodorant. If your current deodorant doesn’t work, you must try another. If that one doesn’t work, another! And so on until you don’t smell like a European.
We don’t have a lot of bragging rights left right now. We’ve got Obama, freedom of speech, and a B.O. free public. Do your patriotic duty and freshen up your armpits, no matter what you have to go through to do so.
Sincerely,
Poor Lucky Me
