Mystery smells

Now, I have never been one to brag about the power of my sniffer. I am the person who is in a group and everyone else is wrinkling up their face and pointing out the disgusting smell, and I am just sitting there thinking I can't smell anything. Now if something is horrible of course I can smell it, but those everyday nasty smells don't effect me. Which as I am writing, I realize that I am lucky for that reason.

Well anyway the last two days my nose has kicked into high gear for some reason, and how I do I wish I could go back to my low-functioning nose. So the last few days these two horrible smells have affected me. And not just that I could smell them, but as I think about them now... I can still smell them. I think it is because I never figured out what the source was, so my brain is still trying to process.

The first smell was in a Hy-vee. I walk in and this disgusting smell overtakes me. It continues through the store and I can't concentrate because this overwhelming smell is consuming my thoughts. First, I am completely certain that the manager should have been doing something to clean the smell (not good for customers). And second, the fact that no one else seemed to notice. They just kept on with their shopping no change in facial expression. I am sure it was one of the worst smells I have smelt in a while and everyone just went about their shopping like it was no big deal. And of course I am still wondering what on earth is was.

Second, I am at a friends house last night and this smell starts to seep into the basement. Luckily the others smelled it, but we couldn't find the source. Well. We finally realized it was coming from their light (this has happened to them before). So she gets on a chair and looks in the light but there is nothing there. Yet, it is still oozing this awful smell into the house. The mystery of the whole thing is what keeps it in my mind. This awful smell (think rotting animal), yet no source.

Weird that the two times my olfactory sense decides to kick in, there is no source. So it will continue to resonate in my head and nose.