The Smell Of My Childhood (570 hits)
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Rating: 0.55 on 21 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Beano (View user info) at 2006-07-14 10:39:43 EDT
I stayed where I was, the moisture from the grass wetting my forehead only slightly more than the moisture from my tears were wetting my cheeks.
I could smell the earth, swirling around in my nostrils, taking me away from where I really was.
The earth and the grass, that distinct smell that you can't help but like. It was reminiscent of my youth; it threw my mind back to better times.
To sunlight and days that lasted for ever, to smells and stains, to setting fire to things, to running away. Scrapes and bruises.
Smells...oh the smells. In those days even air had a familiar smell, it was nice.
Grass smelt good, cut grass even better, flowers (of course), but so did melting tarmac, and car exhausts, fields of rape. Fuck me, even the morning and then the evening had distinct smells.
Nowadays I catch a fragrance that reminds me of something. Sometime I can't match it so I only know it was something I used to smell all the time and that makes me sad.
Other times I know straight away, I smelt a stream the other day and it triggered the right cells in my brain...fishing with Sean. The river behind my house.
Perhaps we are more perceptive to smells when we are kids, maybe we care more or have the time to savour....we are all convinced that we're so busy nowadays.
Too busy to sniff though? That I doubt.
Perhaps we live in a world where things don't smell anymore. It this washed out, consumer suited world where we buy out deodorants and air fresheners from a tin?
I doubt it and I hope not.
I also hope that grass and earth...the smell that followed me everywhere I went when I was an infant, from railway tracks to woods, from streams to cornfields will stay just that...my trigger to my youth not a reminder of Sean's funeral.
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User Reviews
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2008-07-26 12:19:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
OH NOES MY RATINGS!
Submitted by maf54 (user info) at 2008-05-14 05:04:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Just to counter what that idiot Director did to you.
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2008-05-13 18:14:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-07-15 14:25:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
No that's my poo.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-07-14 16:26:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I had assumed your childhood smelled like Beano.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-07-14 14:45:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-07-14 14:45:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Really
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-07-14 14:45:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Liked
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-07-14 14:45:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2006-07-14 12:18:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
This smells like salty garbage.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-07-14 11:42:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That was a farce!
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-07-14 11:38:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-07-14 11:13:38 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-07-14 11:08:05 (#)
Ranking: 2
For having plenty of rape and me being an ass.
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A gentleman.
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BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-07-14 11:13:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-07-14 11:08:05 (#)
Ranking: 2
For having plenty of rape and me being an ass.
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A gentleman.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-07-14 11:08:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
For having plenty of rape and me being an ass.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-07-14 11:07:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ok, you have a point.
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2006-07-14 11:00:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
My nose allows me to smell something about once a day. I always pray that it is a nice thing and not some man made stench.
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2006-07-14 10:53:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yep. Lovely.
Submitted by The_Cyst_Master (user info) at 2006-07-14 10:51:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I like the smell of children.
Dead children.
But children nonetheless.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-07-14 10:48:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Do you know just how much rape 'fields of rape' is?
Man you are difficult to please. That is a ton of rape right there.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-07-14 10:42:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Needs more rape.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-07-14 10:41:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
my childhood smelled like vaseline, alcohol, and chloryphorm