Men listen up - less truly is more!
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
United States
February 1, 2017 8:40am CST
In some cases less is even to much for me! I guess you might say 'it depends on what I'm talking about'...sure it does. Let me tell you what exactly I mean.
Colon/after shave: stinky, horrible, overdone, overused.
What got me cranked up over this you ask? Our neighbor! He's a little guy, tiny by most standards. However he is big in stink department. He came over yesterday when the plumber arrived since he knows how the water lines run he wanted to be of help.
Standing 5 or 6 feet from him, outside in the nice clean air, the smell of his colon was enough to knock me over. There was a slight breeze so I tried to stand down-wind of him. After he left the stink lingered. My real problem is that he is going to help my husband take the bathroom counter tops apart, take sinks and faucets out, etc. so the granite guy can make the templates. That means our bathroom will smell/stink and no, no window in the bathroom that opens unfortunately.
I realize that I cannot ask him to leave the colon in the bottle but I sure wish I had the nerve to tell him less truly is more!
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
1 Feb 17
@AbbyGreenhill If there is something I hate is to catch the morning flights, they are full of men who put on too much perfume.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
1 Feb 17
I don't wear perfume and I use perfume free detgergents, etc. Smells really bother me. Glad I made you laugh!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
1 Feb 17
Oh! cologne! I was thinking colon.... he has poo or farty smells? which is even funnier when I got the mental image of a colon in a bottle.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
3 Feb 17
@LoriAMoore I made up batch one, we shall see how this works!
@asfarasiknow (3340)
• Bournemouth, England
2 Feb 17
Wasn't that a big hit for the Police in 1979?
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@asfarasiknow (3340)
• Bournemouth, England
3 Feb 17
@LoriAMoore To clarify: Message In a Bottle was by Sting; Colon In A Bottle was by Stink.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
1 Feb 17
I don't think he misses showering - I just think he's trying to hide his wife's cig. smell.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
1 Feb 17
@shaggin I'll survive......we wont be able to use that bathroom anyway so I can keep the door closed it will help.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
1 Feb 17
I would throw a fit if I worked in a situation like that.
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@sallypup (69156)
• Centralia, Washington
1 Feb 17
@AbbyGreenhill Its the welfare office. You'd think they'd get their act together.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
2 Feb 17
I don't wear perfume - I stopped years ago since wearing perfume in the summer can attract bees and then I developed asthma so perfume is a no no.
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@JudyEv (381739)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Feb 17
@AbbyGreenhill Sounds like it will have to be a peg then. 
@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
1 Feb 17
Have your husband tell him you can't take strong smells, and could he please not wear the cologne as you get headaches from it. I'm sure you hubby won't have a problem telling him. Nothing wrong with a little white lie
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
1 Feb 17
It wouldn't be a lie - but we need this guy for little projects so I don't think my husband would want to piss him off.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
1 Feb 17
@AbbyGreenhill You think that would piss him off, if you say it most kindly.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
1 Feb 17
@fishtiger58 He has a little attitude problem.....so I know it would.
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
1 Feb 17
My son went through this during his twenties. Thankfully he grew out of it. Is there any chance that your neighbour will do the same??
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@LeaPea2417 (40020)
• Toccoa, Georgia
1 Feb 17
That is too bad. I would be upset too. I really can't abide certain smells.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
1 Feb 17
I think 9 out of 10 men in TN where the same stinky stuff.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
2 Feb 17
@LadyDuck was thinking the same as me.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
1 Feb 17
I don't think he would take it well...and we're not that chummy.
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
1 Feb 17
I agree, my grandson loves Axe and it's awful. My older son likes something too, not sure what, but when they spray it, I have a coughing gagging fit. I can't handle it. So glad now I live alone. My younger son didn't wear any, which was good.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
1 Feb 17
If my husband wore it I would not have married him!
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@JESSY3236 (22199)
• United States
1 Feb 17
I can't take strong scents either. I think you should at least tell him.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
2 Feb 17
I hardly talk to him, I usually let my husband inhale his stink LOL
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@asfarasiknow (3340)
• Bournemouth, England
2 Feb 17
Sounds as though he's missing a trick. Smaller guy = smaller surface area to cover with after-shave. It should be much more cost-effective for the vertically challenged. Believe me, I know!
Maybe a lot of people buy him the same thing for Christmas and his birthday and he's trying to use them all up at the rate of a bottle a day.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
2 Feb 17
I don't think anyone buys him gifts...they never have company and from the way he talks he and his wife don't exchange gifts - so your theory - albeit a good one, doesn't fit here LOL!
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
3 Feb 17
Oh man!
I hate when I come across people who smell OR their breath smells and they talk SUPER close to you. I dont know if you have this but those who SMELL or have ODOR tend to talk/stand CLOSER than the norm!
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
2 Feb 17
I am taking Trumps way of speaking and making my own words.
@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
23 Mar 17
Aha! I was part-way through this before I realised what you meant! The colon (the lower part of the bowel, just before the rectum) probably doesn't smell too good but you are kind of stuck with the length you have unless you have surgery, it's hard to leave it in a bottle!
Cologne on the other hand (named after the original perfume which was called Eau de Cologne after the German city) is definitely better when used in moderation.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
2 Feb 17
I don't use/can't use sprays of any kind - lysol is worse than his smell!
