My winter jacket is sulking in the corner. I just chewed it out for being so nastily, dry-heavingly stinky, and it apparently doesn't take well to constructive criticism. The jacket seems to think that it's all my fault, and that somehow I dragged it into that vortex of teenaged stupidity last night where it passively consumed millions of cc's (how do you measure a gas, people?) of secondhand smoke, thus acquiring its fresh, daisy-like, lingering NASTY STINKY EYE-POPPINGLY RAUNCHY STENCH.
What is up with Germans and smoking, anyway? You would think, what with all the environmental friendliness and walking everywhere and non-obesity and universal health care for crying out loud, that cancer sticks would be big no-no's. Oh no. Unlike in Vancouver, for example, where they have outlawed smoking even in bars, here you'd be more likely to see people protesting for their right to toss burning butts onto puddles of spilled gasoline next to a park where small children are playing. They like their cigarettes.
I am not much of a bar person anyway--the part I like best is good conversation, which is almost always easier in a place that isn't blasting techno music in your ear so loudly that you have to shout to be heard by the person sitting next you. Add in the polluted air and morning-after UTTERLY REPULSIVE STINKINESS, and you get, well, really no reason to ever leave the house again. Hmm.
I would wash my jacket, but since dryers are not standard fare in German households, I would have nothing to keep me warm on my way to work tomorrow. Oh, for a bottle of Febreeze.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Litany of cold, stinky complaints (don't say I didn't warn you)
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I've got Febreeze. You can use it if you want.
And were you bar-hopping without me last night and THAT is why you didn't want to go to the movie! I see how it is :)
I hear ya. I frequent bars a lot, and I hate myself for the nasty smoke smell I have to live with after, even if I do contribute on occasion. Sometimes I won't go just because I don't want to sleep in the stench, or I will shower before I go to bed. Hang your jacket by a heater or a fan so it will air the jacket out. It goes away in a day or 2, I suppose.
Hmm... another thing about Germany is that they don't have forced-air anything, just radiators and windows. So the best solution for nasty stinky stuff is to hang it out the window, which I do sometimes (when the weather is decent) even though it is expressly prohibited in my lease (maybe because it might fall on innocent passers-by?).
And Febreeze... I have never seen it here. But Heather has it (see above), so I assume that means she brought it from home?
old costumer's trick?
vodka in a spray bottle.
febreeze is just alky with good sniffers in it-get some cheap-o wadka and spray away!
That assumes you can get yourself a spray bottle there.....
Seriously?!?! That is so cool! Won't I walk around smelling like I should put myself in a paper bag, though?
Nope it just evaporates right out!
Several light applications are preferable to a dousing.
When I lived in London, we had a washer/dryer combo. It did not work well.
We DO have febreeze in Germany as well.
AND:
What about looking for the same thing with a different -German- name?
;-)
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