All In Your Bizz w/ Reka & Los

Rewind Funk in the Fibers: A Smelly Towel Tale

Los & Reka

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We dive into the unpleasant experience of encountering sour-smelling towels when staying at someone's home and the awkwardness of addressing this hygiene issue with your host.

• Pet peeve about hotel towels versus home towels that smell sour or "like dookie"
• Personal story of using a friend's towel that left a lingering bad smell for two days
• The science behind why some towels retain odors even after washing
• Awkward conversation with a friend about their smelly towels
• How this experience led to bringing personal towels when traveling
• Recommendation to keep separate, fresh towels specifically for guests
• Discussion of "Dookie Towel Syndrome" (DTS) and how to prevent it

If you want to be a great host, invest in some nice guest towels that aren't used for cleaning up spills, washing the car, or cleaning the dog.


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Hotel Towel Pet Peeves

Speaker 1

A big thing for me , a pet peeve for me you know like you can go to a hotel and you know they refresh your towels and you know you can get a new towel every day , new washcloth and I hope people are using washcloths .

Speaker 2

I hope they're using washcloths . Are they using their hand ?

Speaker 1

Or the bar of soap with all kind of body parts on it . But let's talk about these sour towels that are in in the closet and they .

Speaker 2

You know you just finish washing . Maybe they kept it in the the washing machine too long and you get that little dookie smell , I think , before you even use it ?

Speaker 1

no , I think , I . I think these towels have been around for a few years .

The Sour Towel Experience

Speaker 2

And I think when people wash them , they still smell sour when they come out the washer , they still smell like booty .

Speaker 1

And then when you dry them , it's heating up the funk . I don't know what it is , but I used a sour towel at somebody's house , oh no .

Speaker 2

And my face was stank for face for two days , you know what ? Because you do wash with that towel like it got like an after scent you know like , if you smell like dukey I don't .

Speaker 1

I kept like looking around and sniffing and I'm like , and I was smelling my hair and I'm like , what is that smell ?

Speaker 2

and then I had to like your face , my face , and then I guess like my hair it was just sour .

Speaker 1

I had to just just get in the shower and just wash my hair , wash my face , but I was so disappointed wait a minute .

Speaker 2

Wait a minute now . Did you tell the person I asked , because then

Guest Towel Etiquette Lessons

Speaker 2

people are thinking that is that it's you smelling like I know .

Speaker 1

Smelling sour , like a baby's neck with milk under the .

Speaker 2

You know what I said ? Hey , Baby neck .

Speaker 1

Hey , Once I , you know , kind of realized after like the second day , like hey , where do you want me to put this towel ?

Speaker 2

In the trash .

Speaker 1

I said do you want me ? It kind of smells sour , you know should ? I said it kind of smells sour , should I toss it ? No , just throw it in the washer . I was like you sure . You need to recycle that towel If you can smell the stink on the towel dry before you even put water to it .

Speaker 2

When you put some water on it , it's going to just be magnified .

Speaker 1

You put water and funk to it and skin Water funk , yeah . So now I have a habit of traveling water funk , yeah .

Speaker 2

So now I I have a habit of traveling . Uh , I try to remember if I with my own towel and washcloth .

Speaker 1

So that's why that's where you get that from . Yeah , so you got a bad experience you got like dookie towel syndrome yeah okay , so I guess that's why , dts .

Speaker 2

You know what to so prevent this ? Just get you some nice new towels when people

Preventing "Dookie Towel Syndrome"

Speaker 2

come over .

Speaker 1

However , you know yeah , have some guest towels I do that I have some new guest towels that only my guests can use . I'm not like washing the car with them , washing the dog with the you know , cleaning up spills and yeah , I have some towels just for my guests so they won't have dts no , so they won't have the dookie .

Speaker 2

Smell the dookie sour face the sour face yeah .