Smelling Shoe Polish
I’ve heard it said that if you smelled something too directly, the smell goes to your head and stays there so that you continue to smell it from memory, even tho the actual smell is long gone. Can anyone confirm that? Sham?
I sure hope so cuz I’m smelling shoe polish wherever I am, even places where there shouldn’t be that smell.
What happened was I spilled some shoe polish in the car on Monday. I was in a hurry so I ran the shoe polish sponge over my shoes while in the car (after arriving in the office and not while driving). It was an old bottle and the sponge fell off and a bit of shoe polish dribbled out. Quite a bit, it turned out, since the car still reeks of it, and I’ve been getting a good whiff of it everytime I’m in the car. I know, I know - I should’ve wiped it off the first chance I got, but I didn’t, so now I’m paying the price for it.
I even smell it in my little room at work (yes, I have a little room at work, altho it’s “borrowed” , cuz we’re in a different part of the building while our usual place is being renovated, and we’re supposed to move back there middle of this month, to an open-space department … but I digress).
Where was I? So, yah, okay, first time tomorrow morning, before I go to work, I better wipe off the shoe polish stains.
I still smell the shoe polish. I hope it isn’t killing off the cells in my brain.
