San Diego cabbies cry foul over body odor test

[whathehell]

33. I understand what you are saying, but

San Diego is really not hot and humid, certainly nothing like the tropics.

I've visited there a few times, and the locals tell me it's basically about 70 degrees, year round.

These people, basically, just have to bathe more often and use deodorant -- I've heard of this problem

before, by the way, years ago, and it wasn't Ethiopians, it was Eastern Europeans, when Communism

was still going.

I read a great book by a Croatian/Serbian Woman named Slavenka Drakulic who said that,

even in Yugoslavia - which was less deprived than other parts of Eastern Europe -- the government,

in its 'five year plans', couldn't afford to make deodorant, so when one got on public transport

there, the vehicle just stank....It must have been an awful experience, but people probably

just got used to it. FYI -- I've BEEN to Eastern Europe (Croatia) several times in the last several

years and this is NO longer a problem.