Saturday, September 10, 2005

Intoxicating scent

Tonight I went out for dinner with two of my fellow teachers. After dinner we went to a bar for a few beers. Shortly after I arrived I caught whiff of the most intoxicating scent. I had to follow it and savor it. Then it disappeared.

So we talked some more and once again I smelled that scent. Once again I stayed with it, until it diminished. And I was disappointed. This happened a few more times, then I had to say something. One of the servers came to our table and I smelled that scent again. "It must be that server," I thought. I told my friends about that scent that I'd been smelling, and it was that waitress. They asked me if they should ask her what she was wearing and I agreed.

I went to the bathroom, and upon returning to the table I saw her. So I said "Yogiyo" which means, "Here, please" and she followed me. My friend asked what she was wearing. She said nothing, but she mentioned that there was an air freshener which sprayed every so often.

I was attracted to the air-freshener! Then my friend said that is a common smell for the restrooms. I felt embarrassed and confused. I told her that scent would be considered perfume in the States. Believe me, if you smelt it, you'd take a second whiff. So that intoxicating smell I loved was for the bathroom. Once again, what's crap in one country is gold in another.

So tell me, who out there loves the smell of urinal cakes? Holla!

1 comment:

Jo Lene said...

Well, you're definitely not going to find that kinda smell in the public bathrooms here in Malaysia.. so count yourself lucky!

Apart from that, it is pretty funny. hehe