# Pandemic Showering habits **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-showering-habits/940651 "2021-04-23T23:47:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 25
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-showering-habits/940651/25 "2021-04-25T21:41:23Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > …if I was outside much or exerted much I’m gonna get clean before imposing myself and my stench on others. I may be lazy, but I’m not a anti-social. This does raise the question of whether other people can smell you from six feet away if they’re masked. * * * We had a wintertime discussion of showering a few months back: > [@Let's talk about showers (the bathing kind, not the meteorological kind)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-showers-the-bathing-kind-not-the-meteorological-kind/930547): > > Full disclosure: I hate showering. Especially in the winter. Because I hate to be cold right after when still I’m all wet and haven’t gotten dry yet. Also because in the winter my skin gets so dry I feel like it’s all just going to flake off my body. Rest assured, I DO shower (although not every day in the winter, as I don’t do anything or go anywhere), but I wish I enjoyed it. It’s just a necessary nuisance. I feel like this is a grownup thing I haven’t mastered and consider myself inept in the… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pandemic-showering-habits/940651)._