This is the day I let off a bit of steam about some
case of ignorance, stupidity or just plain absurdity. I leave you to decide which category best
fits.
It is
possible to be mugged in a variety of
non-physical ways.
Well,
when I say physical, I am referring to the arm-swinging, teeth-cracking,
toe-stomping selection of physical.
There is however a more subtle and actually rather deadly form which
still affects one physically, but leaves no marks.
It is
assault with the fragrant weapon.
Duelling
of the senses at forty paces.
The three
metre swords of scent.
It's a
competition as to which can get the complaint in first - the nose or the lungs.
The nose will tickle and twitch, start to produce water to equal Niagara Falls
and if things are going really strongly that day, the eyes will get in on the
act. What gets me is I know of at
least two women and one man who all complain of rhinitis or allergies,
constantly sniffing as a result, who all wear
their own mini-atmospheres like a suit of armour. I wonder how the allergies would be sans
their weaponry? I doubt, though if any
of them have actually been in a life-threatening situation due to odoriferous adhesions.
But these
lungs have been. These poor old,
life-long asthmatic lungs. Anyone who
has had any association with an asthma sufferer will completely understand the
following plea.
Less is
more. If I can smell you without
actually hugging you, it's overdone.
Leave it off. Thank you.
Guilty as charged.
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