I am not going to dwell on this for
too long because with everything that has been going on I have attempted to
lock away that section of my brain. It has not been easy at times. I am a red
blooded man after all. Anyway, there was an ad campaign here a while back that
talked about how smell is a sense most closely tied to memory. And I believe
that is true.
I remember when I was in seventh
grade, we practiced football first hour and you had to run from the locker room
past the cafeteria to get to the practice field. And there was something about
the mixture of bus exhaust, the cafeteria dumpsters and wet grass that carried
a mist of the morning dew. I had not been at Adair Schools for about a decade
but for that first day of Kindergarten, we parked in the same parking lot that
we used to have to run through. And when the smell tickled my nose, I was right
back to seventh grade gym class. It was astounding. I will never forget that.
Well, I told you that story to tell
you this one.
I was working on something in the
backroom. It was nothing time pressing and I was just dinking and dunking
around. (I tell you this because I don’t want you to get all, “Them girls ain’t
pulling their weight!”) Well, a small collection of the girls were headed to
the roof to suntan. It is good and warm. The sun was out. Well, all of them
smelled off suntan lotion.
For me, that is one incredible smell.
I guess it is because it is associated with swimming and bikinis and beach fun.
Who doesn’t have a positive memories revolving around a bikini? Oh well, gonna
stop thinking about it. I had to shut down that section of my brain and I am
not even thinking about unlocking it…
