An interesting morning

[shark_hat]

Everything smells bad today. It's a heavy, grey, damp day, so smells cling soggily, and as the spring flowers aren't scented what you're left with is the bins that need emptying, the muck-spreader that drove down the station road earlier, the illicit fag someone had twenty minutes ago on the train, and an inexplicable reek of silage right through the town centre. The wind that slices down the hill on the way to work wasn't carrying anything worse than exhaust fumes, but it was still a relief to get indoors to the anodyne smells of photocopiers and carpet.

The scene outside work was unusual; yellow tape winding through the trees, people in white overalls, and bodies lying everywhere, with everyone outside the tapes walking past in complete unconcern.
(It was a training exercise, obviously. Forensic and chemical, the sign said- maybe the silage smell was one of the things they practise airborne tracking on?)

Comments

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

One hopes the day got better.

>as the spring flowers aren't scented

I'm sure I noticed lilacs in bloom in Shipley... Will give you *most* spring flowers, but only because you fed me a very nice lunch.

Oh, fun. I've been put on notice for a simulated disaster before, but never got the follow-up to say "you are now dead / incapacitated, take the rest of the day off".

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

> One hopes the day got better.

Oh, you know, much like normal. Today, OTOH..!

Yes, today there are some nice flower-smells in the air, but yesterday it was very much all about the nasty niffs.