Once Upon a Smell

Once upon a time there was a man who smelled.

And he didn't smell like after-shave, he didn't have a hunky, masculine, worked-out-at-the-gym sweaty smell; he smelled BAD. Not all the time, but it was definitely there sometimes.

And his wife was WORRIED!!

This was not a normal smell at all, but a very bad and suspicious smell for a human to have.
And the man's wife worried even more.

But she didn't say anything to him. For a couple of weeks she noticed it off and on and she kept her thoughts to herself, wondering if maybe she was mistaken about it being the man himself. But the weird smell was still there, and she was really getting worried that perhaps he was very sick somehow, and that is why he was giving off this very unnatural smell. A bad sickness causing a bad smell... that is what she was fearing.

She hugged him and could smell it. She smelled it often when they were in the car together. And still she kept her thoughts to herself, pondering and worrying.

Finally after a few weeks of this, she determined she had to say something to her
husband about it. Their kids were in bed, they were watching TV and he was sitting in front of her taking off his shirt to have her scratch his back, a nightly ritual.


She gingerly broached the subject.


"Um, I've got to tell you something. I've noticed this weird smell on you. And it worries me, it is really a bad smell." She sniffed at his neck, down his back. It was still there.

His answered relieved her.


"Well, actually, I have, too! I smelled something weird lately; in fact..."

He jumped up suddenly and pulled off his belt, and commenced smelling it.

"This is IT! It's this new belt! THIS is where the smell is coming from!"

She took a whiff, and sure enough, there it was, a really strong skunk-like smell. Very NASTY smelling indeed!


The man said, "I thought I had smelled something recently, I didn't really figure out what it was until just now."

Sighing with great relief that her husband wasn't dying of some undiagnosed cancer, the woman promised to return the belt the very next day.


So that is why you may have seen her, the woman in the belt section at Kohl's, smelling all the belts as she hunted for her husband's size, getting odd looks from the other shoppers.




There's a method to her madness, be assured.