I was having another one of those anxious days, convinced everyone around me could smell something.
I bumped into Mike in the personal care aisle.
He’s about 58, always put together, always confident.
“Man, you look like shit” he said quietly.
Something about his tone broke me open.
Before I realized it, I was admitting my struggle with odor anxiety.
Mike listened with an understanding I didn’t expect.
“John, I went through the exact same thing a few years back. I know exactly how it feels, that panic when you think someone might smell you.”
He told me he had tried every guard and every “odor-controlling” product out there.
Nothing fixed the real issue.
“But,” he said with a grin, “I found something that actually works. Not guards, not diapers, something completely different that stopped the odor problem entirely.”