In another five years it would have been oil...
Thursday, June 10th, 2004 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanFor the past couple of days there has been an odd, stale smell coming from the recesses of the pedestal drawers by my desk. Only when I opened it, of course.
I had a cursory shuffle through the papers to see what could possibly be smelling so strangely: a sort of stale second-hand book shop smell, but as if distilled and bottled. I found nothing - mind I didn't look very hard.
About ten minutes ago I had occasion to consult my dictionary. The waft from the drawer was even stronger, so having checked the spelling of the word in question, and noted the meanings of a couple of other randomly spotted words (as you do), I decided to investigate properly.
The drawer housing the dictionary was not the culprit, though it did seem that there the odour congregated there more strongly than elsewhere. Maybe it was heavier than air…?
My next exploratory foray involved the second drawer - one which I use quite regularly as the depository forsecrets man was not meant to know elderly, unanswered correspondence. Anyway, deep, deep down, in the Pre-Cambrian layers, I eventually excavated a plastic carrier bag (happily not biodegradable). Now I was going to shove that to one side and investigate deeper levels when I realised that the bag had a texture with which I was unfamiliar.
The upshot is, that I now know what the banana equivalent of coffin-liquor smells like.
Using the archaeological technique of dating an artefact from the surrounding layers, I put the banana at about December 2002.
They are not meant to last that long.
And they don't.
I had a cursory shuffle through the papers to see what could possibly be smelling so strangely: a sort of stale second-hand book shop smell, but as if distilled and bottled. I found nothing - mind I didn't look very hard.
About ten minutes ago I had occasion to consult my dictionary. The waft from the drawer was even stronger, so having checked the spelling of the word in question, and noted the meanings of a couple of other randomly spotted words (as you do), I decided to investigate properly.
The drawer housing the dictionary was not the culprit, though it did seem that there the odour congregated there more strongly than elsewhere. Maybe it was heavier than air…?
My next exploratory foray involved the second drawer - one which I use quite regularly as the depository for
The upshot is, that I now know what the banana equivalent of coffin-liquor smells like.
Using the archaeological technique of dating an artefact from the surrounding layers, I put the banana at about December 2002.
They are not meant to last that long.
And they don't.