I may have mentioned that for Mollie’s youth trip to the Bay Area, I was responsible for schlepping the luggage around. I was happy with this arrangement, because I didn’t have to spend that long drive through the California central valley listening to their loud music and chatter… (That sounded worse than I meant it to, but don’t pretend you don’t know exactly what I mean)… There was one factor I didn’t take into account, however. Twenty teenagers living out of suitcases for a week, one day of which they had to pretend they were themselves homeless and not wash themselves, tend to generate a significant amount of dirty laundry. This laundry was crammed into plastic bags that were ripped and torn. And I spent twelve hours in a car with those bags in 90 degree heat.
To say that it smelled like a high school gym locker would be putting it mildly.
Next time, I am going with the loud music and perky chatter.
Pouring My Art Out 
Unintended consequence.
The richest kind.
Was wondering what that ripe smells was……ps…I’m with you on the music…lol
I am a musical dinosaur…
Sweaty teenagers are the worst! Did any of the scent get stuck in your mustache? Shave it off if you did. The smell of a dirty teen is like that of a skunk. Impossible to remove from memory.
Not even if I was sprayed by a skunk would I trim my magnificent stache. That is just throwing out the baby with the bath water… or something…
Ha ha ha… but couldn’t it have been worse? What if it were animals?
I have smelled chicken and pig farms, and this was almost as bad. I would have chosen cow and horse smells over this any day.
the overwhelming thought that i got from this blog is that you are infact an old fart…even if you dont realize it…..i mean…loud music,chatter…..you sound like my dad……but hey dont worry happens to us all eventually…………that what i tell my kids in anycase………..damn their music is awful.
I am getting old. I love kids, but teenagers get a little iffy. The music I just can’t take. Artificial drum music and techno pop just makes my head hurt. It is the new disco music. No heart, no soul, just thumping.
i actually have no doubt that the electro gadgets in the hand of skilled musicians could still produce excellent music…but this is not the case at the moment…….its awful.
It is a short cut. Like rap music makes people who can’t sing into vocalists… sort of.
most of it sounds like a bloody pin ball machine…….with some asshole screaching over it………..i think i should write a pop song…me dressed up as a turd….playing pinball,,,and repeating the same lyric over and over….something along the lines of “hey baby i dig the way you shake your ass……ding ding,ping buzzzz ahhh ooh…hey baby etc…………..
Do it. At least on youtube.
You love the smell of laundry in the morning.
But not in the hot afternoon, in an enclosed space.
This sounds like my days in the circus.
Oh, man, I bet there are some crazy circus smells.
Yowza! Can you say One Hour Martenizing? What is Martenizing, anyway?
Happy 4th, Firecracker.
I haven’t even figured out what dry cleaning is…