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  • Nairn8

    Just had a chat with someone I've not seen for a while out front in the cafe, where there's some work going on - builders in fixing things.

    Half way through the chat, I feel the beginnings of a worrisome emanation in my posterior and knowing what I ate last night, I know where this is going.

    Out it slipped and began filling the space in between us with the most awful miasma. Prepared, I'd already stepped left and right a bit, in part to work it out, in part to begin to put space in between us and in mor parts to allow for movement that wouldn't raise questions.

    As I did this, I inadvertantly looked over at the people working and I guess wriggled my nose a bit in a slip of self-acknowledged disgust. The person I'm chatting with caught this and his gaze followed mine and then he too side-stepped away from the builders. Not from me. Clearly he has smelt it too. Clearly, a mistake on his part that I'm not going to correct. He looks and me and shakes his head as if to share a moment of criticism against these filthy bastards befouling our noses.

    I didn't correct him. I'm disgusted too.

    • we've all done ithans_glib
    • lolfadein11
    • Making QBN great again one post at a time :)dee-dubs
    • This post really is entirely more funny than it has any right to be.

      I'm giggling like a 7-year-old.
      Continuity
    • I needed this laughGucci
    • From reading the second paragraph I knew it was you, Nairn.palimpsest
    • Pulitzer in feature writingdrgs
    • palimpsest took the words right out of my mouthscruffics
    • What had you eaten last night??MrT
    • Far (far) too much chicken shawarma, slathered in garlic sauce.Nairn
    • I asked AI to generate a title:
      "Smells Like a Job for the Builders"
      drgs
    • oh that sounds delicious, worth a worrisome emanation or two.MrT

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