From time to time in the past, I’ve observed that I was either born a few years too early, or a few years too late. Had I been born a few years earlier, I could have enjoyed the craziness of the early eighties. And had I been born a few years later, I would have been in school with the more mature technology I wished for while hiding in the campus NeXT lab.
However, considering that I am so sensitive to smell, I can’t walk into a Body Shop or a Yankee Candle store, I think I’m going to have to consider myself born “too late”. From an AP story:
A Minnesota lawmaker proposed a bill Monday urging a fragrance-free educational campaign to discourage students from dousing themselves in scents that aggravate classmates with asthma and other health problems.
Odors that fill hallways come mostly from boys who douse themselves in body sprays like Axe, said Mikolai Altenberg, a senior at Minneapolis South High School. He said the smell is “indescribable” and unavoidable.
“You can smell it from 10 feet away,” Altenberg said. “Mostly it’s just guys who just think that putting Axe all over them is a substitute for showering.”
Teenager B.O. was bad enough. However, my nose is burning from even the thought of teen B.O. masked by the slathering on of too much body spray.
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1 vanessa // 17 Mar 2008 at 12:38 am
The body spray is spreading health diseases like asthma , then it should be banned and children should avoid using body sprays instead of that they should take shower daily.