Posted on 05/01/2003 10:46:47 AM PDT by bedolido
Shutesbury, Massachusetts town hall will be segregated by scent to avoid disturbing those hypersensitive to chemicals and odors. This will involve splitting the meeting hall into three sections as of May third. One section of the room will be reserved for people who never use perfumes or scented deodorants, detergents or other products. The second will be for those who sometimes wear fragrance but not on the day of the meeting, and the third will be labeled, "Seating for those who forgot and used cologne and perfume." Using fragrances in public is similar to smoking, said Town Administrator David Ames.
Why is someone wearing Old Spice deodorant to be singled out and segregated, while someone who stinks like a skunk from natural body odor is fine to sit with the rest of us?
What other odors might bother other citizens? Is Folgers going to be forced to change its recipe to something less odorous? If its smell gets you going in the morning, can’t it be a nuisance by waking up the neighbors? Oh, wait. According to the New York Daily News, The Gillies Coffee Co. has been ordered to pay a $400 fine for polluting the air with the smell of roasted coffee.
If strong smells are dangerous to the chemically sensitive, isn’t this as good a reason as any for liberals to keep marijuana illegal? Couldn’t some helpless kid might be at a party for the beer and unwittingly get stoned at the same time?
If smoking can be banned in apartment complexes because the smell disturbs neighbors, why not the cooking of the Indian guy in the corner apartment who just loves curry? Isn’t curry smell more pervasive than cigarette smoke?
Do we have to ban garlic, oregano, rosemary and other aromatic herbs in restaurants to protect the noses of the olfactory-illy sensitive? Talking about food, do we have to ban the sight and smell of meat in public? After all, don’t a number of pregnant women get nauseous - and even throw up - at the merest whiff of red meat? (Don’t mention that one to PETA.) If smelling like spring rain after your morning shower is a toxic risk to your neighbors, how can we not ban the odor of something that sends women busy making the next generation racing for the bathroom?
How about bathrooms? Do we really have to clean public bathrooms? If these chemically impaired can be affected by perfume and deodorant, aren’t they floored by the smell of the bleach used to mop those floors? Can’t we all do with unsanitary “accommodations” so we can accommodate these poor disabled people?
Will Gore get his way with the banning of the combustible engine through smell ordinances? Doesn’t car exhaust stink? Doesn’t increase one’s risk of asthma as well? Oh, no, double trouble! Don’t all manufacturing processes put off some kind of odor? Well, I guess we just have to do away with manufacturing, too!
OK. Let’s see if I can get this straight. No smoking of any kind. No coffee. No spices. No herbs. No meat. No clean bathrooms. No cars. No industry. Doesn't that makes us Amish?
But doesn’t all natural horse-poop stink?
Forgot what? Is there already a law that says Don't wear anything with any kind of fragrance? Does that include Bounce dryer sheets?
Becki
Becki
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