Here's a sweeping generalisation for you all that happens to be accurate: Dominicans are disgusted by people who don't wash.
Take this incident at a small supermarket yesterday: three foreigners (nationality omitted to protect the guilty) who REEKED provoked a mass reaction from most other shoppers and all the staff.
Even though no one was hiding their horror with some pretty unsubtle gestures (fanning the air), exclamations of disgust (Fo!) and distressed facial expressions that can't have failed to cross the language barrier, as well as comments ("Get the air freshener, quick!!!/How about Baygon?) the pungent trio carried on oblivious, leaving rancid wafts of stale BO up and down the aisles in their wake.
It would have been funny if the smell wasn't so toxic.
It can't be denied: Dominicans always look and smell clean, even if they've been doing strenuous work on the hottest and most humid day.
If you do catch a whiff of eau de sobaco in a public place, the odds are a foreigner (alas, usually European) is in the vicinity. And when I go back to Europe, it hits me from all directions. Fo!
Take this incident at a small supermarket yesterday: three foreigners (nationality omitted to protect the guilty) who REEKED provoked a mass reaction from most other shoppers and all the staff.
Even though no one was hiding their horror with some pretty unsubtle gestures (fanning the air), exclamations of disgust (Fo!) and distressed facial expressions that can't have failed to cross the language barrier, as well as comments ("Get the air freshener, quick!!!/How about Baygon?) the pungent trio carried on oblivious, leaving rancid wafts of stale BO up and down the aisles in their wake.
It would have been funny if the smell wasn't so toxic.
It can't be denied: Dominicans always look and smell clean, even if they've been doing strenuous work on the hottest and most humid day.
If you do catch a whiff of eau de sobaco in a public place, the odds are a foreigner (alas, usually European) is in the vicinity. And when I go back to Europe, it hits me from all directions. Fo!