Saturday, October 11, 2008

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How It Goes...

I once had a job that left my hands covered in a sticky wax with an odd odor, so I washed them quite a bit, especially after each shift. Nothing seemed to work, no amount of lathering and rinsing and repeating and lathering and rinsing and repeating with the antiseptic soap of the company bathroom. The smell became first an annoyance then an irritation and eventually something close to an obsession.

Of course it finally turned out to be the soap that smelled, not the wax I was trying to wash off.

Isn't that just how it goes?

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10/11/2008 10:21:00 PM

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