Smells (663 hits)
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Submitted by matnotharry <mattreallysmells.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2006-04-27 12:27:58 EDT
It was one of those days when time seems to drag like a stroppy kid and lethargy is your only gear. This journey has lasted a lifetime, I have felt every minute and every second of being here and even now I'm not even halfway home. What a day.
Friday afternoons, I have always thought, are the most trying times in anyone's week and moments like this just testify my theory. All around me are faces beaten by fatigue, overwork and too many nights of too little sleep. The auburn kid standing by the doors looks ready to fall asleep there and then, despite being vertical with tinny music blasting in her ears. The teenage bride with a baby astride is finding consciousness a drag too; in fact I think it is only the stink of the kid's full bag keeping her awake.
Someone somewhere is beginning to kick up some sweat, a crime of the highest unforgivable magnitude in the commuting community that is only surpassed by the tuna sandwich and the escaped silent fart. I begin to place my fellow travellers in a mental line up, assessing who is the likely culprit. My prejudice tells me to just blame the fat guy but the feller clad in the jumper and heavy jacket arouses my suspicion too. The yuppie office worker has probably spent all day in an air-conditioned habitat and would smell of expensive cologne anyway. The dazed looking teen beside him has probably also masked his odours with similar but less-costly methods, though I imagine he probably wouldn't care what you thought of his person either way. I run out of enthusiasm for my game and surreptitiously smell my shirt; it probably is me I conclude - Axe effect my arse.
The tang begins to pervade every nook and cranny of this tin can until it begins to smell almost sweet, before becoming nothing as my brains adjusts to it. I sit back and let the drone of the bus erase the memories of double maths of today from my mind; at times like this I wonder how I was ever attracted to teaching when I have always loathed the mentality of youth. To my right some dickless little shit is burning the back of the seat in front of him, filling the air with the acrid smell of cooking plastic. Perhaps he feels he is leaving an everlasting impression on the world, or has gone for the Donnie Darko bullshit of seeing creation through destruction. Whatever. I have long thought anyone under the age of twenty-one is an arsehole and this doesn't look set to change.
At long last we enter the suburbs. I snap out of my reverie of bitter irrationality against adolescence as we roll mercilessly to my stop. Stepping off I inhale my first breath of clean air and head home, there's no place like.
User Reviews
Submitted by georgemichael (user info) at 2006-04-27 22:34:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by matnotharry (user info) at 2006-04-27 18:51:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2006-04-27 16:27:46 (#)
Ranking: 1
What means Stroppy?
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It refers to someone (usually a child) who is sulking, surly and/or uncooperative
Submitted by MonkeyingAround (user info) at 2006-04-27 16:49:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
I got bored reading it.
Submitted by LSD420 (user info) at 2006-04-27 16:35:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Stroppy describes something with strop-like features.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2006-04-27 16:27:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
What means Stroppy?
Submitted by tammy (user info) at 2006-04-27 15:36:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Do more of this and try to keep it simple.
This was a bit muggy.
I prefer to read stuff that says a lot without SAYING a lot but you're good and you'll get better so +2.
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2006-04-27 14:36:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
well written
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-04-27 14:23:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I didn't see one bit of frisbee golf in this. I did conclude that you were riding a bus early in this though. I also think you tried to cram too many adjectives in to that last sentence, but overall, it was a good read.
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2006-04-27 14:23:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Pretty good.
Submitted by The_Cyst_Master (user info) at 2006-04-27 14:22:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yeah, I didn't read it either. I'm just going to play later on today.
Submitted by EchoBoxing (user info) at 2006-04-27 14:05:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i didn't read it but if there really is frisbee golf involved i'll leave this +2 and (maybe) read it later
Submitted by The_Cyst_Master (user info) at 2006-04-27 13:16:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for frisbee golf.