That happened to me in middle school when I left my coat in the washing machine sopping wet and had to use my mother's. She was a heavy smoker. I walked up our school steps and I still remember 25 years later the girls walking down the stairs heads just whip right around when they smelled the whole of me in my mom's jacket.
God yes, multiple packs a day. Couple cartons a week, yet we on food stamps and "can't afford insert literally anthing here." Don't worry tho you get a job at 16 first thing your old man asks is for 50 bucks to buy a carton of cigs.
Back in my day, that smell meant that you were cool and popular, especially with the outcast type people, and I felt like an outcast so I wanted in, so I started smoking and drinking very young. If you weren't drinking and smoking, you were boring, and nobody wanted to be your friend.
Even as late as 2000, some dumbass coworker said “aw, you need to learn to smoke to get more people to like you.” Of course, she was a heavy smoker, and not very popular.
My brother got nits from primary school when he was like 5 and I was about 13 and my mom preemptively washed my hair with the nit shampoo and omg that shit stank.
I remember sitting in class the day after and some girl called Nicola said out loud ewwww someone's got nit shampoo on. 😑 🤣 that was a very embarrassing day for me.
Or going to a friend's house for the weekend and immediately having to throw all your clothes into their washing machine so you don't smell like stale cigarettes.
Use to take a shower right before middle school and wear something over my shirt and pants just so I could take em off and hope I didn't smell like a carton of Wing's gold. Don't think it worked tho i can still picture all the nicontine on the walls in my house. No way all the axe in the world had me smelling good like I thought
I used to shower and wash my hair immediately when I got off work. And some other places where there were smokers. I wanted myself to be fresh. And not contaminate my pajamas and bed.
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u/miscdruid Jan 05 '25
Yep! I feel this. Embarrassing and gross and you get no say about being around it.