Allergy

Having read Magges' post on her baby's sensitive note - I thought I'd share my nose allergy with you so you would ever so kindly be wary of this condition of mine and attempt to NOT make life difficult for me. This thought was further fueled by a couple of M&E guys who were fixing the ceiling lights above the cubicle beside mine.

You see, I really can't stand the stench of BOs!!! I can unassumingly pick it up as soon as I come within a fairly close proximity of someone infested with it, that my nose immediately pinches over, automatically hold my breath and gag on the remnants that manage to sneak up my nostrils while my brain digested before reacting. And then I take a testing whiff (otherwise no oxygen) and can sometimes repeat the same cycle but with a much stronger effect as my lungs would then be empty of clean air.

I really can't comprehend why some of them folks are unable to smell themselves smelling bad?! I mean, don't they geddit when people do a nose twich - ala Bewitched, whenever they walk by? Or when the flies just drop dead around them?

The honest to goodness sweat from playing a sporting activity is fine. Same goes for wearing bad coloured cotton top (Sportsgirl!! watch it!!) in hot sunny weather. But not when you're just working in an air conditioned office and you emit this strong sour stench that can really make your poor colleagues retch!

For the sake of my own sanity, I have stopped being polite. Not like I go up to them and tell them in their face that they stink bad - oh trust me, I'd like that, but for fear of being beaten up or worse, grabbed tight and shoved under their armpits for all eternity until their smell is implanted in my nostrils forever and ever, I instead give them a poor pitiful frown, tsk'd just a wee bit, raise my hanky (or paper towels, whichever's closest) (okok, I am not so dainty-glam that I carry a hanky, for other reasons, perhaps) to cover my powdered nose, and keep glancing at them out of the corner of my eye to see when they're making a move out of my breathing air-space. Gosh - quite the rude huh.

But but but.. I'm not even asking for eu de toilette yet!! Just decent basic self care and cleanliness, which is something our fellow countrymen lacks quite sorely :( 3 basic skin-care: wash, soap, deodorant!

But if you want to earn karma points and go to heaven; bring on the Polo Black's, the Issey's, the Cerutti's, the CKs and the Chanel's. There's nothing like being a walking smelling pot of hotsex. ;)

Seriously, I don't know why I'm griping so much about this when I have tonnes of work to do. Tiddle doo now! *sniff*