Even When it Smells like Roses, I Still Don't Like It
We put a man on the moon almost forty years ago, and we were flying planes over a hundred years ago, but some comparatively simple tasks remained unsolved.Like eliminating bathroom odors.
We're a pretty sophisticated society, but if you're unfortunate enough to have to use a bathroom in the wake of another who had a certain kind of bowel movement, you still just have to deal with it.
Oh, sure, there are windows and vents—but they can only do so much.
After that, the best "solution" is to use some kind of aerosol air freshener. But that also has its effective limitations. We all know that smell that is a combination of fresh, fragrant flowers and... well, you know what the other half of that combination is.
And that's where this gets funny. Because of the bathroom at work and the ever-present air freshener sitting on the counter, I now have come to associate that smell of fragrant roses with the other smell. Even when I only can smell roses.
Not every trip to the bathroom leaves a detectable odor, but I think it's a pretty common situation where people play it safe by liberally spraying that air freshener "just to be sure." So sometimes I'll walk in there smelling only roses, and it makes the place seem gross, dirty, and germy. It's all in my head, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that now I hate the smell of flowery air fresheners, because they represent something very un-flowery.
posted by Steve @ 1:25 PM
1 Comments:
I associate the smell of roses and lilies with funeral parlors. Eecch. I can't stand going into a florist. I keep looking around, wondering where they hid the stiff.
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