Posted by NCWayne on May 31, 2013 at 01:26:49 from (173.188.169.54):
I had a two hour plus ride to a job this morning, and another two plus this evening to get home, so I had alot of seat time to just ride and think today.
The customer I was working for has their office in what was an old school building. When I went in the place had what I think of as an 'old building smell'. Just about every old building I've ever been in has that same sort of dry, musty smell, and I love it. I think it goes back to messing around an old house that was on my Grandparents place when I was growing up. It was a big, old, two story house sitting under a bunch of BIG oak trees and for some reason it was always just a little spooky for some reason.
Anyway, I got to thinking about the old building smell and others that brought back memories came to mind. Things like the pleasant, sort of sweet, yet musty, cigarette smell in my grandparents car, and the smell of Grandpa's pipe tobacco. All of these smells tend to being back nice memories of growing up.
Then there are the work related things like the smell of 90 weight gear oil, or even worse the smell of 90 weight, along with a mix of everything found on the floor in a commercial cow barn, in a CAT final drive, on a 98 degree day. Then there's the smell of 'belly pan gunk'. That's one of those smells that seems to be the same regardless of the machine. Then there's diesel smoke, diesel fuel, and a host of others that there is simply nothing else that smells like it.
Top all of it off with the 'outside' smells that you either wish were stronger, or wish they'd just go away. Things like the sweet smells of wild roses, and honeysuckle's that float through the air and tickle your nose at night when your driving around with the windows down. Then counter that with the freshly road-killed skunk who's stench doesn't so much tickle your nose as it just plain out assaults it. Worse yet is getting stuck behind a truck full of chickens, or even worse a rendering truck, either one on a 90 plus detree say.
Like I said, these are all 'memberable' smells, be they good or bad, that rarely have an equal. So, these are a few smells that bring back memories whenever I smell them, what are some ya'll remember?
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