miss akay

Formaldehyde olefactory party!

Today, in the hallway where we all have lockers, I had just gotten out of the gross lab and was still in my sexy green scrubs. One of the girls (also just left the gross lab) walked by and said... "someone smells good!" and she walked over to me and said, "oh! it's you!". Usually everyone puts on lotion or a spray of this or that to cover the formaldehyde ick. Well, I was wearing my usual CK Euphoria from early in the morning and I suppose relative to the base lingering smell of formaldehype it's nice. So I was feeling all fresh and good about myself. Then I decide to go straight home without changing. So I get on the Metro without changing out of my scrubs, because I smell great, right? Well, in the crowded rush hour train all of a sudden I could smell the formaldehyde all over me. It's like it came out of the front pocket of my scrubs shirt or something. Those poor people I was squished into, on the train! I guess after hours around the cadavers you stop smelling it, so a fresh spritz of perfume is apparent. But once you're out in public, the smell of the gross lab really stands out. Ooops! I'll have to rememeber that.... no matter how good I might smell for gross lab, it will never be acceptable to interact with the public in such condition. :)

posted by miss akay @ 7:32 PM