Ghost Hot Dogs
Ever had one of those experiences where you start to question the accuracy of your own senses? Well, I had one of those yesterday. As you're probably aware, I've been well-immersed in Operation Becoming-A-Montana-Citizen lately. I'd already been to the DMV to update my ID and register to vote earlier in the week, since I've been playing with the idea of losing my "voting virginity" this year. Yesterday, I went down to the public library to sign up for a library card so that I can continue to be the ultimate book nerd when I'm not busy working.
After we finished selecting our books and wandered around for a while, we decided to sit down at one of the tables upstairs and do some light reading. Seth had just settled down with a stack of magazines, and I had just cracked open a Clark Gable biography I had decided to check out, when we started to smell this... smell. It smelled an awful like hot dogs and garlic or something, but we just couldn't put a finger on what it was exactly. All I know is I really thought it was food. Neither of us had eaten yet, so it wasn't long before our stomachs were growling and we were wondering who the a-hole was that brought their fast food into the library to taunt everyone.
Eventually we just couldn't stand it anymore, so we got up to make a trip back to the snack machines. In the process, we figured out where the odd, can't-put-my-finger-on-it smell was actually coming from. Do you know what it was? It was this homeless guy who probably hadn't showered in months that had decided to chill in the library as homeless guys sometimes do! Suddenly it all made sense. Somehow I had translated the smell of extreme b.o. into the smell of food and was actually salivating over it. That made me feel a bit weird to say the least. I guess that's what sinus problems will do for you!
On the brighter side, the librarian that checked my books out for me correctly identified Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket on my t-shirt, which made me smile. I got it years ago when the movie came out, and it's one of my very favorite shirts ever, as I'm a huge Snicket fan. It has the stylized cartoony version of Violet from the book illustrations along with the slogan "first impressions are almost always entirely wrong". People always think it's a cool shirt, but no one has ever actually realized what it is before. Leave it to a librarian! This just proves my theory that reading people are the best people.
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