[Dixie Yooper]

If you smoke, you smell. If you smoke a pipe, not only do you look like someone who wants people to thing you look sophisticated, you also have to carry around a pipe that smells. If you smell bad enough, you stink. Since your mouth, throat, sinuses and nostrils are coated with tobacco slime, you can't tell that you stink. The nice looking girl who pretended like she was afraid she was going to catch cancer from having to share an elevator cab with you was just trying to tell you in a nice way that your a smelly, stinky person.

[Artemis Webb]

Well said.

[-YYZ-]

No, she was either incredibly stupid, or insufferably rude. As are your comments. I thought people from the South were renowned for their politeness, but apparently none of it has rubbed off on you.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you nailed it. Add to your list, the occasional fire in your pants pocket from spilled ashes.

[reagan_fanatic]

LOL. I don't smoke, but I dated a girl once who smoked about two packs a day. Everytime I kissed her it was like kissing a dirty ashtray. Even with rinsing, she couldn't get that taste out of her mouth. Didn't seem to bother her, though.

[Ditto]

You remind me of a conversation I had with my mother many many years ago. We were talking about "the old days" when she grew up in a home with an outhouse and very few homes had bath tubs or bathrooms. I asked her how people got baths and she said they only did that once a week and did it in the kitchen. She also mentioned that most people wore the same cloths for several days in a row. Being young, I said they must have used a lot of deodorant and she explained there was no such thing then but wealthier people would use perfume. I ask what the rest of the people did. She replied... "They stunk!"

Today, we seem to believe we have some Constitution right not to be offended by the smell of another person. Our ancestors would have thought we were completely insane. Life was a lot 'stinker' back in the "good old days", but probably much friendlier.

[LiberationIT]

Concur. And, BTW, I'd feel pretty much the same about the young lady if she was awash in perfume.

[norton]

After my father quit smoking he realized just how gross most deodorant and perfume actually smells.

He spent ten happy years pointing that fact out to people in elevators who believed that only tobacco and garlic annoyed others.

[Old Professer]

She should have had you deliver the message, you have the mantra down pat.

Fat people sweat and stink; athletic live-forevers jog at lunchtime and stink; do-gooders stink on sight; perfume and cologne users stink; wet dogs stink; women in heat stink; my feet stink.

As a matter of fact, the world stinks.

[CJ Wolf]

I got into an elevator once with an indian that smelled of curry, I told her that eww she smelled and I was gonna get the runs.

[Publius Valerius]

Hmm. I've always found pipes to smell rather pleasant.

[okie01]

Such grace. Such charm.