let’s make a better tar
On my roamings through the city today my nostrils caught a wafting of fresh tar. As an aside, I should mention my unusually large nose is incapable of high performance smelling. It seems there is an inverse relationship to the size of a nose and its ability to smell. What a stinkin’ rip off. Despite my nasal disability, I still recoil at the smell of tar. I can only begin to imagine how horrible it must smell to people with a more delicate schnoz. It must really pack a punch. Does tar really need to smell that bad? Why can’t we have scented tar. Imagine if you walked by a roofing job and smelled freshly cooked bacon instead. How about apple pie? I’m a little hungry now so most of my scent ideas are food based, but I’m sure they could make it smell like flowers, too.
Hopefully my scented tar idea will rankle the ladies less than my controversial shoetcase idea.
July 1st, 2005 at 8:59 am
You know, I have to say I haven’t seen nor smelled any tar since moving east. I can’t recall ever seeing one of those sticky, smelly, crusty things they hitch to a truck to make the witches brew, on the east coast.
I wonder if tar is only used in California? What do we use here if we’re not using tar?
July 6th, 2005 at 11:56 pm
Perhaps NYC just uses a mixture of lost dreams and broken promises.
July 7th, 2005 at 11:47 am
There are no houses left to tar in NYC — only high rise apt’s.