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Originally posted by bilmore
I'm sitting here, not smelling anything objectionable, and now you've got me paranoid.
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Funny, the whole discussion was reminding me of exactly that paranoia. It is the curse of the truly innocent that their first thought would usually be "omigod, did I do it?" when they know perfectly well they didn't.
Sometimes when I'm at the gym (hah, like that ever happens - ok, sitting around somewhere, whatever) and I start to smell something not right, usually my first paranoid thought is - "oh, christ, is that me?" Then I realize that I bathed and properly annointed myself with deodorant and 99.99% of the time that means I don't smell, and if it was me, I probably wouldn't smell it and the guy next to me would be looking uncomfortable and I wouldn't know why. But then I think "yeah, but if it
is me and I actually am smelling it, it must be really, really bad!" And I get paranoid until I run off to the bathroom and confirm that I am not whiffy. Only times this didn't happen was when I was a vegetarian and what I was smelling was meat - when you've been a veggie for a while, carnivores really do smell different, and it's often not good.
Not sure why I thought anyone would give a shit about that little musing, but that paranoia is a killer.
