Cologne Bomb

[Sapphire Silk]

This is the problem with working with people with mental/emotional issues. No one dares tell him that he's an assault on the olfactory senses of everyone he comes within fifty feet of without having to worry about it hurting his precious little psyche.

Well, they're stupid then. They're not doing the client any favors by not telling him.

And if they tell him and he goes elsewhere double points!

We have a clause on scents in our dress code for the community college. I can and have sent stinky students home.

[KellyHabersham]

There was this woman who used to come into the petrol station wearing a really strong perfume and far too much of it. Honestly, she smelled like she'd filled a bath with it, climbed in, and marinated for an hour. I used to run out the back to avoid having to serve her cuz the smell was so bad it gave me a headache.

We have an older woman at church who's a bit like that......I wouldn't say she bathes in her perfume though, but I AM tempted to ask what kind she uses, so I know what kind not to use.

[blondescales]

We had a nurse that bathed in perfume at our little local hospital. I was staying over night with my grandma when she was there. As soon as this nurse stepped into the room the smell leaped across the room, jumped over the bed and slapped me in the face where I was sitting by the window. I was glad that I only rarely encountered her but hated being trapped in the room by the smell (my grandma was lucky in that she couldn't smell at all).

[mathnerd]

Once one of my kids had to spend an extra day in the hospital because a nurse was wearing so much perfume that it made him physically ill. He was already having some difficulty with post op nausea*, and it was just too much for him.

*This was the kid who vomited so violently coming out of surgery that it hit the ceiling of the elevator he was in at the time. He doesn't get along with general anesthesia.

[Racket_Man]

Smelled like someone was cooking bad clam chowder in our hallway. I live in Colorado, could it have been something else?

Rocky Mountain Oysters maybe???

[Sapphire Silk]

Once one of my kids had to spend an extra day in the hospital because a nurse was wearing so much perfume that it made him physically ill. He was already having some difficulty with post op nausea*, and it was just too much for him.

*This was the kid who vomited so violently coming out of surgery that it hit the ceiling of the elevator he was in at the time. He doesn't get along with general anesthesia.

This is why we have that policy in our dress code. Cigarette smells are bad, too, since many of our patients smoke and can't do so while they're in the hospital.

[XCashier]

I think there's something around here about the infamous "Low Tide Clam Chowder."

Just the thoughts of that make me want to

That was former poster The1JimmyC. He worked at a seafood restaurant with a cheap and incompetent manager. Said manager, when making clam chowder, substituted non-dairy creamer for the cream in the soup. Turned the soup an ugly grey color, hence the name.

I cannot eat clam chowder anymore because someone(possibly on this board in a previous incarnation) pointed out to me: <invisitext so I don't ruin it for anyone else inadvertently> if you smell clam chowder and don't know it's clam chowder it is indistinguishable from pee. Clam chowder smells like PEE! 0_0<end invisitext>

Hmm, I love clam chowder (properly made clam chowder, that is) and it doesn't smell like that to me. To me, it smells like potato soup with seafood added.

[mathnerd]

This is why we have that policy in our dress code. Cigarette smells are bad, too, since many of our patients smoke and can't do so while they're in the hospital.

The hospitals where I I had my gallbladder out in November and my appendix out last weekend both were more than happy to prescribe a nicotine patch for us smokers. I have to say it was a very nice touch. It made dealing with being sick and not being able to smoke a whole lot easier. Putting nicotine withdrawal on top of everything would have been pure misery.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

The hospitals where I I had my gallbladder out in November and my appendix out last weekend both were more than happy to prescribe a nicotine patch for us smokers. I have to say it was a very nice touch. It made dealing with being sick and not being able to smoke a whole lot easier. Putting nicotine withdrawal on top of everything would have been pure misery.

If I'm admitted to the hospital, I'll have to ask for one . . . I don't think the vape pens are allowed (our local hospitals have a tobacco-free campus.)

I've noticed over the years that when I'm in bed sick, I don't want a cigarette as much. I'd just rather sleep it off and sip on Theraflu when I'm awake.