The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for February 18, 2015

I think I once met that woman in a bookstore. I was not sure I would make it out of the store alive.

Teen-age girls are the worst. Strippers, too. Or so I hear.

And if she touched Vicky’s coat, the scent will linger. And linger. And linger.

I bet she wears a fur coat as well.

Anyone remember “Poison”? Deadly if you were trapped in an elevator with a wearer!

I met this woman just a few days ago 8>(

My piano teacher back in grade school – thick perfume so awful it gave me headaches…

Possibly, it would have suited the character!

Doesn’t she know that ‘abattoir’ means ‘slaughterhouse’ in French?

At least it’s not whatever assault on the senses a friend of ours used to wear. Every time he’d get in the car with us, we’d have to open the windows full — even in bitter cold such as we’ve been going through this winter. Took him years of giving my wife excruciating headaches before he got the message. I think it was when I told him that if he didn’t go back in the house and wash off that stench, he’d be riding lashed to the roof of the car.

I worked for a small business which the owner declared to be “scent free”. Then he sold out and the multi-national conglomerate didn’t continue that policy. But there were so many people who were hired by the original owner to work in a scent free workplace that it didn’t change much.

I worked with the general public for 30 years and because so many wore too much perfume I had . to take early retirement When I was approaching my refinement date and I was untouchable I finally got the courage to respectvilley ask these people to back away has their scents were offensive and they would look at me as if I was the one who was being rude.