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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 686114" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>So. Today he got up and rode to the office (well, the parking garage) with me, the plan being he would go ahead to the cafeteria, grab breakfast, wait until it slowed down a tad and then talk to someone about a job...then he could hit a few other places nearby and grab a bus home. I asked him if he needed laundry done. No. He has no decent clothes, but what he does have could be clean. But no. </p><p></p><p>He did get up and come this morning. He didn't do much along the line of cleaning himself up; literally no shower, wet his hair a bit in the sink to tame it and put on a hat, I did see him brushing his teeth. I suggested he put his clothes in the dryer with a dryer sheet to take the wrinkles out and freshen them. "What wrinkles?"</p><p></p><p>He just does NOT get it. I tried to explain in the car, but he's like, "No one who doesn't live in the house with me can tell I didn't shower." I told him, that when you are looking at job candidates, and two people show up, one clean and neat and clearly making an effort to look their best, and one who looks like he just rolled out of bed, you're going to hire the clean one. At a minimum it's the difference between being the guy who stocks the salad bar and being the guy emptying trash cans and doing dishes.</p><p></p><p>His response is that he doesn't have B.O. so why shower. In his defense, while he does have a bit of a funk, it's more of a stale cigarette odor than B.O. and it's often fairly faint. But still!!! He's literally brushed his teeth twice since he's been back with us. They are awful, with tarter so bad it looks like he has white bread from a sandwich stuck in his gums. It's disgusting! I'm literally a person who NEVER goes to bed without brushing my teeth. I've brushed them when I was deathly ill, when I was falling-down drunk, when I was out in the woods and had to use my finger and water! I can't imagine letting my teeth get like that. He's going to get gum disease and lose them! Not to mention it just turns my stomach.</p><p></p><p>I do NOT understand him. I don't understand the lack of hygiene. I even said today, "When you were a kid, you loved baths. When you were a young teen we yelled at you for taking 1/2 hour showers!" His response was, "When you were a kid you hated naps. People change."</p><p></p><p>I give up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 686114, member: 17309"] So. Today he got up and rode to the office (well, the parking garage) with me, the plan being he would go ahead to the cafeteria, grab breakfast, wait until it slowed down a tad and then talk to someone about a job...then he could hit a few other places nearby and grab a bus home. I asked him if he needed laundry done. No. He has no decent clothes, but what he does have could be clean. But no. He did get up and come this morning. He didn't do much along the line of cleaning himself up; literally no shower, wet his hair a bit in the sink to tame it and put on a hat, I did see him brushing his teeth. I suggested he put his clothes in the dryer with a dryer sheet to take the wrinkles out and freshen them. "What wrinkles?" He just does NOT get it. I tried to explain in the car, but he's like, "No one who doesn't live in the house with me can tell I didn't shower." I told him, that when you are looking at job candidates, and two people show up, one clean and neat and clearly making an effort to look their best, and one who looks like he just rolled out of bed, you're going to hire the clean one. At a minimum it's the difference between being the guy who stocks the salad bar and being the guy emptying trash cans and doing dishes. His response is that he doesn't have B.O. so why shower. In his defense, while he does have a bit of a funk, it's more of a stale cigarette odor than B.O. and it's often fairly faint. But still!!! He's literally brushed his teeth twice since he's been back with us. They are awful, with tarter so bad it looks like he has white bread from a sandwich stuck in his gums. It's disgusting! I'm literally a person who NEVER goes to bed without brushing my teeth. I've brushed them when I was deathly ill, when I was falling-down drunk, when I was out in the woods and had to use my finger and water! I can't imagine letting my teeth get like that. He's going to get gum disease and lose them! Not to mention it just turns my stomach. I do NOT understand him. I don't understand the lack of hygiene. I even said today, "When you were a kid, you loved baths. When you were a young teen we yelled at you for taking 1/2 hour showers!" His response was, "When you were a kid you hated naps. People change." I give up. [/QUOTE]
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