Body Odour! My Worst Misery! | Short Stories Hey, I’m Brad, I’m 16 and I have a seriously stinky problem….like, literally! I have a terrible body odour problem and it gets me into soooo many awkward situations. I know what you’re thinking? Why doesn’t he just use deodorant? I do use it, in fact, I once used a whole bottle in a day just to try and drown out my awful B.O.
Afterwards the bathroom had such a overwhelming deodorant mist smell that when my mom went in there she came out coughing and with tears streaming down her face. It was super embarrassing!
I guess this problem started when I was about 12. I seemed to sweat far more than the other kids and by the end of first period I’d have big damp patches underneath my arms. I had to endure mean comments from my classmates, such as “Brad needs diapers for his armpits,” and “if you put Brad in an empty swimming pool he’d soon fill it up with his sweat.”
I guess they meant these comments as a joke so I tried not to let them know that they’d bothered me. I may have been laughing on the outside but on the inside I felt really down about it.
I started wearing dark colored t-shirts to school so the sweat patches weren’t as noticeable. I’d also pack a couple of identical spare t-shirts into my bag and I changed at first break and lunch.
I showered every morning and evening, I used copious amounts of deodorant, and I was a normal sized guy, so I didn’t understand why I sweated like a waterfall?
As I grew older my B.O problem grew worse. I stink and it makes me feel so down. I have friends, I mean, they tease me about my B.O problem but at least they still talk to me, I guess. They know that I wash and that I wear clean clothes every day, so it isn’t because I’m dirty or anything like this.
Still, being called “B.O Brad,” isn’t great! How am I ever meant to get a girlfriend with a nickname like that?
I know that my parents can smell how bad I stink…unless, maybe they’ve become immune to it? They never say anything about it, not even after the bathroom deodorant incident. Part of me wants them to mention it and then I could ask them to take me to the doctors about it…but then I repeat my thoughts and shudder! Talking to the doctor about my B.O problem would be super embarrassing.
I started doing some research into why I smell so bad. The main reasons for over-sweating are down to a person’s weight, their hormones and what they eat. I’m not overweight, I try to eat healthy-ish but I guess I am a teenager, therefore I’m hormonal. It sucks that I stink this bad when all of my friends don’t. If every single hormonal teenager smelt as bad as each other then no one would care!!!...
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