gag!
By AD11RGUY
@AD11RGUY (1265)
United States
March 16, 2008 9:58pm CST
Two guys. Different backgrounds, different ages. Both long time automotive industry employees. Can stand in a cloud of diesel exhaust and enjoy it. Inhale the fumes of all the different automotive cleaners, lubricants and fuels. Breathe in the dust particles of various automotive parts with no problem. Both smoke over a pack a day of Marlboro Reds. Yet both instantly asphyxiate in the presence of perfumes, colognes and certain make-up products. Both are highly allergic to these items. The married one had to prove to his wife that it was not in his head with a medical report before she would stop using her products. So what is it in all of these products that causes such a violent reaction? And why do people use them in the first place anyways? I thought the idea of bathing was to [/b]remove[b] body odor. Why put odor back on immediately afterwards?
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@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
17 Mar 08
I don't know the answer to that, but I do know the feeling.
Not only do I smoke, I roll my own smokes.
I have welded, worked as a machinist and been around many different chemicals, fuels, and pollutants over the years and never really been bothered by them.
There are only two things that cause me trouble... I have allergies to things like pollen and fresh cut grass... and perfumes and things like that.
It doesn't take much either.
I can walk through a room full of smokers with no problem, but a room full of perfumed women, or even cologne is about enough to do me in.
I even have problems when my wife dabs a little on before she leaves the apartment, and she doesn't use much at all.
I don't know what is in that stuff, but it would make a great crowd control weapon.
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@AD11RGUY (1265)
• United States
17 Mar 08
"I don't know what is in that stuff, but it would make a great crowd control weapon."
No kidding!! The rare times I go to the mall, when I am approaching the perfume section, which is ALWAYS in the middle of the path through the store, I actually hold my breathe until I am at least some 15 feet past the zone. I haven't studied history since high school, but if memory serves correctly, such tactics are against the Geneva Convention. Chemical warfare was outlawed long ago! 
