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Here's the end of the story: "I was a perfect gentleman."

Here's the rest of it: This friend of mine, a guy, was on a date. After dinner, they went to Ben & Jerry's at the Friendly Center, but it was closed, so he sort of put a little move on her there in the gazebo. He held her close and started to dance with her.

Here's what he had to say about the dancing:

"When she put her arms around me it was like 'Oh God I can't believe I stink...Hey wait a minute, I don't stink, she does.'"

He explained the smell a few ways, but I think the most illustrative is this nugget: he tried breathing through his mouth but he said he could taste it.

He wondered: "What else don't you wash?" And it sounds like that was the end of the date.

As for me, I can kind of be a big hippie. I'm not really that uptight about showering, I usually wash my hair every three or four days and if I'm close enough to a guy that I can smell his skin, I like that smell. Especially if he smells like a guy and not like paint thinner or whatever it is they put in Axe body spray. I use soap and deodorant and everything, but I never endeavor to smell like a flower or a cupcake or anything like that.

But we're not talking about my smell. We're talking about whether my friend should go out with this chick again. He's confident that she wants to see him again. Tomorrow will be the earliest he can call her (by a very liberal interpretation of the three day rule). Should he?

And the price he's paying for all of your good advice, dear readers, is he has agreed to be bound by it. If there is a plurality of opinion on what he should do next, he has promised to do it.

So what should he do? Call her? Not call her? Take her swimming?