ONLY THE NOSE KNOWS
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker
This may be a silly question, but what is the worst thing or odor you ever smelled? Oh my, I can think of lots of smelly things, but the worst smell is a toss up.
Things like bleach on your hair, an outhouse, smelly feet, sardines, sewage, garbage, rotten food and just a lot of things our noses just don’t want to get a whiff of.
If you have children, you are familiar with baby diapers. Diapers have come a long ways since I had my babies. With pull ups, Pampers and all kinds of wipes, it’s a lot easier changing a little one’s diaper than it used to be. Easier and less smelly!
For 3 of my children I had cloth diapers, wash cloths, a rinsing tub and a diaper pail. After a dirty diaper was rinsed it went into a diaper pail with a lid to be washed either by hand or machine. But, diapers and babies were done with love and care regardless of the aroma.
One evening I came home from work, walked in the house and a rancid smell went up my nose and I almost got sick. Whole gagging, I hollered at my husband “Oh my do we have a gas leak? Did the dogs have an accident? Is it your feet smelling? What is that awful smell?”
A reply came from the dining room,” I’m eating cheese and crackers” I said” What kind of cheese? It must be rotten.”, “No” he replied, “it’s Limburger.” I had never smelled anything so bad and had never been around Limburger cheese but it smelled like dirty feet.
Earlier this summer I thought I smelled something on my front porch. I looked around, didn’t see anything that would give off a bad odor. As the days went on, the smell got stronger and I thought maybe I had a dead coon or possum under the porch. One evening my sweetie, Denny came in and he said that he had been smelling something out there too.
After looking under, over and around everything, one day I was pulling out the freezer a bit and I saw it!! I cautiously picked it up and saw it was a package of stinking hamburger. I called Denny and said, “I found the smelly thing on porch.” I told him what it was and then after pitching it, I sprayed the porch with room spray. Ahhh smells better.
My daughter and her husband used to go foraging for Ginkgo fruits. They are fleshy, yellow fruits that emits an odor like rotten butter, vomit or poo.The seeds inside the stinky fruit are an Asian delicacy when cleaned and cooked. No I did not smell, see or eat any.
I have always said that I wanted to be a candy tester to taste test all the candy. I would probably do more testing the candy than checking.
I have read before that if you have a good sniffer, you maybe could get a job doing nothing but smelling stuff. Things like perfumes, soaps, oils, pickles and anything that needs smelled prior to shipping.
I just wonder if you were employed as a nose smeller, what if your nose got plugged or it got broke? There are lots of things our trusty nose does for us. We smell, get air through our nose and breathe. There are lots of thing we can do to our noses some good, some not so good.
We blow our nose, wiggle our nose, get hit in the nose, and do a few gestures with our noses. Maybe no one is pleased with the looks of their nose, and lots get nose jobs and some just have and keep it. A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Words for a nose are schnoz, beak, conk, sniffer
Your nose can remember over 50,000 scents. Wow! Thank God for Noses
What is the worst thing you have smelled? Do you like your nose and do you ever call it a Schnoz? Does your sniffer work.? Mine does cause I smell Chocolate. Let me know and I’ll give you a Penny For Your Thoughts.
