TIL people love their Pumpkin Spice.
It doesnβt smell βa bit.β It pervades a space. You canβt smell someoneβs 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 wouldnβt be so bad, by itself. What makes it aggregious is that stores start pumping out the pumpkin spice scent around October; itβs everywhere. Itβs inescapable. Itβs like a crowded Austrian bar in the 1980βs, where thereβs 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.
βSmell a bit.β Thatβs like calling a nuclear holocaust βa little fire.β
Maybe they do it differently where you are? Or maybe youβre 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. Itβs 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. Itβs 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 βa little smell.β