Scent my attitude

I can be talking to someone with halitosis and I will literally envision my skin melting off my face.

It's like they have a dead animal carcass in the mouth somewhere! Can’t they smell their own breath if it's that bad? This one guy I knew had it so bad, you could smell the horrid scent after he left the room and somehow the phone?receivers?claimed the stench! How is that possible? My sister still remembers a teacher she had once that had nasty breath. Whenever the teacher had to help her, the Teacher would shower her down with a brown-colored air from the teacher's mouth and whatever it was the teacher was trying to convey was just not conveyed! She is still damaged by the memory of the smell!

I like to wear Perfume on a daily basis. It makes me feel beautiful and others around me hopefully feel happier when a pleasant aroma is in the air.
I like candles, the smelly kind that stinks up your house in a good way. I don’t like buying the candles that have a food scent much, because it's so disappointing when I or someone else walks into the room and expects to be able to eat whatever is smelling so good. Then, the realization there is nothing to eat, just a dumb candle burning. ?Now everyone is grumpy and half-starved. Yea, try not to buy those candles like Cinna-bun, apple pie, blueberry muffins, sugar cookie…

Here's a thought, what if smell had a color to it? Yea, it had color like a firecracker? Depending on the smell, it had a different color? Thank the Lord it doesn’t. Can you imagine?

Nasty smells, which of course many times are just unavoidable really trigger some sort of nasty attitude in me. It doesn’t help that I was made with the power of a bloodhound's nose. I guess it helps to recognize this about myself. I think I will start carrying around a little container of Menthelatum. Then I can just crack it open like some drug and inhale when I’m in a situation that calls for it! Now if I can just not blow my own kids over when I’m having a bad breath day. Well, they inform me when I do. And because I understand how smell affects my own attitude, I get up and get a piece of gum or gargle some mouth wash. I need all the help I can get parenting and being a school teacher, I don’t need my breath causing their little brain cells to default! And Chris if you're reading this, you know you can tell me when I’m killing you softly with my breath... 😉

~Prudence