Stinky & Really Stinky

Okay. So, I like good-smellin’ stuff as much as the next gal.

Perfume – check.

Incense – check, as long as it’s Nag Champa.

Cookies baking in an oven – check.

Men’s cologne – check, check, check! As long as it’s not Brut.

If you remember the 70’s, you remember Brut.

Air fresheners? Not so much.

And the latest insurgence of Glade, Renuzit & others is permeating the air in Mom’s house this morning.

She has this ‘thing’ about odors.

Meet Miss Thing.

“Sadie.”

Cute, huh?

So cute, I did her portrait a few years back.

(I never miss an opportunity to share my artwork. Sorry.)

Sadie is a tiny boston terrier, even by boston terrier standards.

She weighs 11 pounds.

ELEVEN pounds!!!

Who would think such an odor can come out of such a tiny thing.

And when I say ‘odor,’ I’m being kind. Really kind.

Miss Thing has tummy issues.

Special dog food. Very. Expensive. dog food.

Still – Stinky. Very. Stinky.

So Mom sees a TV commercial for this -

A motion-sensor air freshener.

You walk by – it squirts.

You open a door – it squirts.

You just think about the dang thing – it squirts.

I couldn’t take it. I turned it around so the sensor was against the wall.

It squirts.

I moved it into the laundry room, next to the garage.

Every time I come home – it squirts.

My sinuses couldn’t take any more. Just when I was going to take the batteries out, Mom moved it into her bathroom.

It still stinks. It’s permeating the walls, I believe.

You’ve been warned.

About motion-sensor air fresheners. Not Bostons.