Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Moth Balls


Since the weather has been getting colder, I've been chickening out on biking to school. So I've decided to take the bus to school. But I don't take the but very often...and am very affected by odours.
Sure enough, this week I got on the bus and I could smell them from a mile away....where could it be coming from? So of course, as I do everyday, I check out everyone on the bus and begin narrowing down the source.

On a side note, it is important to mention why I dislike moth balls so much....ever since I was little we used to store them in the tractors, my uncle's boat, to keep the bugs out. Also, this was THE odour of my great-grandmother's CREEPY house. And when i was about 10, my dad left on a business trip for a several days and placed the moth balls in the fridge instead of the milk....not only did he have funny looking milk but EVERYTHING in the fridge and freezer taste like moth balls...and since he didn't completely empty it out...well, you can imagine the rest on your own.

Ok, so looking around the bus, I found the source, an older man wearing a fur jacket with a funny fur hat.....I was far away but was dearly hoping his stop was coming up. I then started to imagine where he could possibly be going. Of course, he got off at the stop before mine and I was able to have about 2 breaths of not so fresh but moth ball free air....

1 comment:

feistydaichi said...

i like the smell of mothballs. thanks to you, i don't know if the holes in my clothes are from the aki monster or moths.