Dr Jekyll and personal hygiene....

Dr Jekyll was a one bath a week man. What was good enough for his mother was good enough for himself. Friday night 7.00pm, bath bomb fizzed, he would submerse himself in the tub. Keeping his body clean had never been rated as important for his self-image. Those sweat glands under the armpits and round the genitals could roar into full production all week. So what if his back and buttocks erupted in craters of yellow pustules. He couldn't see them and out of sight was out of mind! He changed his underpants once a week. So what if they hugged him tight right next to his skin and collected dead skin cells, sweat and other unmentionable stains. He changed the rest of his clothes just as infrequently. So what if they got dirty, sweaty, stained and grubby allowing bacteria to start to work on them overnight until they began to smell. It didn't matter that oil and grease collected on his hair and scalp, wasn't the reason he still had a good head of hair down to the fact that he always used Brylcream? And so what if his teeth were yellow because he refused to brush them! So what if this neglect caused other problems - many people with bad breath were blissfully unaware of it. One bath a week was good enough for his mother, and one bath a week was good enough for him!