'HAVE a shower,' villagers in Iran's province of Fars, told 94-year-old Amou Haji, who had not bathed in more than 50 years, fearing soap and water would make him sick.
While Dispensary Corner cannot confirm that they didn't add 'it won't hurt you', it is safe to assume that most people would have considered his rationale a little off - surely a good scrub would only improve Haji's wellbeing?
Islamic Republic News Agency reported that Haji's skin was covered in "soot and pus" due to his reluctance to wash, and that his diet consisted of rotten meat (usually roadkill) and that he drank unsanitary water from an old oil can, which would cause lesser men to keel over.
However, after recently breaking his decades-long resistance to personal grooming and succumbing to peer-pressure to wash, Haji fell ill and passed away on Sun.
Despite Haji's long life and shower-free ways, the PD team will continue to wash.
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