On the metro this morning, scrunching into the last station on the line, I dragged myself out of my ipod induced haze and noticed a man across the aisle closing his book to pack away in his briefcase. Except that it didn't quite reach his briefcase - he ruffled the pages infront of his face and stuck his nose right into the book to have a good sniff. He did this four times, without the slightest regard for the spectacle he was making of himself.
Ruffle, SNIFF, ruffle SNIFF.
Apart from that he looked like a perfectly normal business man.
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menace / Website (6.2.07 22:24) It must have been a brand new book. It's a marvellous smell, the smell of a new book. |
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Amy / Website (10.2.07 10:04) Too funny! Yesterday (while sitting on the metro), I noticed my book smelled like popcorn. When I arrived at my job (as an English teacher), I made my student smell it: Chinese food, in his opinion. |
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Jules (23.6.07 00:00) Maybe something like the way we used to sniff the mimeographed pages teachers handed out in junior high and high school (OK, so most of you reading this have NO idea what I'm talking about, right?!) I admit it -- I am nearly half a century old. |
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cool / Website (15.7.07 06:10) yes, I'm agree |