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Basil lamented here about smell of animals, especially those that are allowed to live inside their owners homes.  I laughed at him really, because Bubba lives inside and doesn’t smell. 

But wait — does he?

I can’t tell really.  I’m a smoker so my smelling facilities don’t work normally.  (I know — don’t comment about the hazards, I’m XX age and have heard them all.)  My sister-in-law stopped smoking several years ago and found out how much she was missing; smell wise.

Now she can’t handle perfume at all and has started having to work from home most days because of the “fragrances” people adorn themself with.  Of course, she’s like most normal human beings who can’t stand the fact there are folks who walk by themselves without adult assistance after BATHING in the cheapest shit out there.   I tell the story  about this gal I worked with in Macon, that when she got out of her car in the parking lot her perfume made it to her desk long before she did.  This gal could clear a hallway FAST! 

Where I currently work, one gal’s perfume preference lingers in every room she’s been in for several minutes afterward.  It’s not a “bad” perfume, just very strong, tart in a way – and after a few minutes of being around it, I do get sickly feeling.

To that end — what smells bother people?   I don’t particularly care for the smell of oysters.  Let’s put it this way, that smell can force me into the bathroom and make rude noises like I’d been on an all night drunk. 

The smell of the inside of a Subway is that of a sour mop.  I can’t go inside one of those places without turning green.

I also can tell when we’ve had too many smokers in our house, because the next morning it does smell like a bar.  Mostly I’ve determined that the carpet stores up a lot of the everyday smells that go on.  But I can’t clean it every day; nor take down the curtains.  As Basil noted, we purchase air freshners that either spray, plug into the wall; hell some even have fancy fans, just to mask odors of our daily lives.

I bought this stuff called X-O Plus+ Odor Neutralizer from QVC a few weeks back.  I know, I’m a QVCholic, but this stuff does work.  You can spray this on odors, or near them for that matter, and they are gone.   I can walk into the ‘puter room in the morning and the ashtrays and previous nights smoking sessions at the monitor are still there.  Just a couple squirts and they are gone. 

So Bubba — here’s a squirt just for Basil.

You don’t smell darling