11:52 pm

Hello? What did you say?


Slept for about 11 hours today.

Still woke up tired for work. And LATE. So. Not in the best of personable moods. Rush rush, grabbed a taxi, jumped in.

After settling back, taxi driver turned to me and said "WOW, you smell so fresh!". WTF? I snapped back "I smell fresh every time I leave the house!!"

Dammit, that was totally inappropriate. If you tell a woman she smells nice, or you like her perfume, that's great. It's a compliment. Women love to be told they smell nice. But not FRESH. I found it highly inappropriate. And strangely, quite disgusting. What the hell is that anyways? Why did the cabbie choose to use the word "fresh". I suppose I knew what he meant, but it just sounded really leery.

It's amazing how a single word can change your perception. People need to learn that their choice in language and words is terribly important.


EQ is not under rated, it's under utilised!

3 comments:

Elisson said...

Well, at least he didn't say "WOW, you smell like stale farts!"

Me, Myself n I said...

We live in a world surrounded by fools *grins*

og said...

Trust me, I imagine he smells a lot of women that are not so fresh. Lord knows I have.

Still, I would have said "you smell nice" or "I like your cologne" before I said "Fresh", but then I would consider it rude to even HAVE that conversation with a woman I wasn't intimate with.