Today’s Church Service Nearly Killed Me
To start off let me just say that I enjoy church. I have been going all my life and plan to continue going well after I’m dead (if Kate agrees to take my urn with her). But today I just about didn’t make it out alive. I am rather a robust person. There is little that upsets, hurts, or stops me from preforming. I hike hard hikes, climb big mountains, overcome sickness without medicine, don’t complain about cuts and scraps, and can deal with the climate. But today at church I found the one thing that will knock me flat on my back and leave me for dead…cheap Mexican cologne. Someone sitting near me had the worst smelling of anything I have ever experienced doused all over him or her…in fact he or she probably submerged them self in a bath of the stuff before leaving for church. I can’t quite describe the scent but it was somewhere between equal parts gasoline, vinegar, and paint thiner and an electrical fire in a morgue. The smell was so rank, so potent, and so unbearable after 2 minutes sitting by this person I found myself sliding down the migraine slope into one bad Sunday. Luckily I was near a window and discreetly bathed the chapel for fresh air. Even so well after church while walking to the bus I still had the scent in my nostrils. Next Sunday I think I will take a gas mask and just say I am sick.
I try not to be ethnocentric and judgmental, but there are just a few things culture has no right to claim…female genital mutilation, salvery, and for heaven sakes using cheap awful colognes and perfumes.
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Come and sit by me at church and I promise not to wear ANY perfume!
Sounds like the cologne may have been Sex Panther. 60% of the time, it works every time!
Crap. I guess I’ll have to return your birthday presents for the next five years.
The real wonder is that they managed to make it all the way to church without passing out themselves.