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caddymanI think that I have Cologne issues.
I don’t have them in an intellectual sense, but I do, it seems, in a physical one. Until about twenty minutes ago my lungs felt raw; on the journey down to Euston, I was sitting for much of the time next to a young woman who had doused herself in something. I don’t think she had over done it – I only got wafts of it; it wasn’t like a mustard gas attack on the Somme – but it irritated my sinuses and the back of my throat. By the time I changed trains at Euston I was beginning to feel as though someone had lightly sandpapered my upper respiratory tract and that developed into a strange raw feeling in my chest the likes of which I haven’t experienced since the first couple of days of nicotine withdrawal when I gave up smoking.
I have never been over enamoured by eau de cologne or any other perfumes. They are nice enough in discreet amounts, but as long as a person doesn’t smell bad, which can be achieved quite nicely by regular showers, a good soaping and a light deodorant, I am happy. It is very unusual, however, to feel physical discomfort (outside the scents floor of a department store), just because some one has over done the slap.
My chest feels pretty much back to normal now.
I don’t have them in an intellectual sense, but I do, it seems, in a physical one. Until about twenty minutes ago my lungs felt raw; on the journey down to Euston, I was sitting for much of the time next to a young woman who had doused herself in something. I don’t think she had over done it – I only got wafts of it; it wasn’t like a mustard gas attack on the Somme – but it irritated my sinuses and the back of my throat. By the time I changed trains at Euston I was beginning to feel as though someone had lightly sandpapered my upper respiratory tract and that developed into a strange raw feeling in my chest the likes of which I haven’t experienced since the first couple of days of nicotine withdrawal when I gave up smoking.
I have never been over enamoured by eau de cologne or any other perfumes. They are nice enough in discreet amounts, but as long as a person doesn’t smell bad, which can be achieved quite nicely by regular showers, a good soaping and a light deodorant, I am happy. It is very unusual, however, to feel physical discomfort (outside the scents floor of a department store), just because some one has over done the slap.
My chest feels pretty much back to normal now.
