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TIL people love their Pumpkin Spice.
It doesnโt smell โa bit.โ It pervades a space. You canโt smell someoneโs coffee, or their caramel macchiato, or their OJ, unless you stick your face in their cup. But if someone comes into an office with a pumpkin spice, you know it because it stinks up there entire room.
It wouldnโt be so bad, by itself. What makes it aggregious is that stores start pumping out the pumpkin spice scent around October; itโs everywhere. Itโs inescapable. Itโs like a crowded Austrian bar in the 1980โs, where thereโs a literal cloud ceiling of cigarette snake at a meter high and an impenetrable haze that limits visibility to 2 meters. Candles. Infusers and incense.
โSmell a bit.โ Thatโs like calling a nuclear holocaust โa little fire.โ
Maybe they do it differently where you are? Or maybe youโre just desperate to justify your hate because actually you hate it because you hate the people who enjoy it not the thing itself?
Oh, no. I hate Pumpkin Spice. Pumpkin Pie at Thanksgiving is my bane. Itโs probably why I hate Pumpkin Spice. I could live with the stink it for a couple of days, but after StarFucks came out with Pumpkin Spice, it started getting everywhere starting October and running through Christmas.
And it really does smell more strongly than other things. Itโs invasive.
How about you having to work next to someone who slathers himself in surstromming every morning for three months, and then come tell me how OK it is for people to invade your space with โa little smell.โ