WE DIDN'T ALWAYS HAVE...
deoderant. That's right, the substance that you put in your armpit everyday (hopefully) wasn't created when God said, "let there be...." So, lately I have been wondering what it was like before people didn't use deoderant. Was that "body odor" smell a natural thing and nobody thought anything of it, or has it always been considered a bad or undesirable trait. I wanted to know what it would be like if it wasn't around, so I decided over the past few days to try NOT wearing deoderant. My reasons for experimenting with this are that 1-I was curious as to how bad someone might smell if they took regular (daily) showers but failed to accompany such cleanliness with a dose of cover-up AND 2-I ran out of deoderant the other day and wasn't feeling motivated enough to go to Walmart (which I hate) to buy some more.

The experiment was going just fine for a day or two. Nothing noticable. Then one day I began to notice that I was particularly "ripe" by the end of the day. This usually doesn't happen to me, so I took a shower at night instead of the next morning. The next day sometime in the afternoon I noticed a hint of the ripeness returning earlier than I had expected. Unfortunately I was giving a guitar lesson at the moment of this discovery. Fortunately, I was wearing a jacket. So on my way home, I stopped by Kroger and picked up a stick of Old Spice High Endurance. I didn't put it on last night and I smelled bad till this morning.

So, the conclusion I've drawn from my extensive study is this: if you don't wear deoderant, your armpits will smell. Also, if your armpits begin to smell, they will smell enough for your own nose to detect it. So people who you've maybe noticed are a little smelly after a hard ballgame or some other activity (or pretty much any Junior higher at camp) you can be sure that they are aware of their own smelliness. My advice: wear deoderant. Keep a travel stick in your glovebox in case you are not fortunate (like me) to last a whole day before your pits begin announcing their existence. Take showers, and try not to eat too much garlic.