My favourite activity at 2AM
Clean up my sister’s puke in our shared bathroom. She didn’t puke in the toilet, she puked ON it. I think she’d make a terrible soccer player. Anyways, I did not clean up the bathroom for her, I did it for ME. I don’t want to wake up to the smell of her puke and have to brush my teeth in it. Breathing, inhaling and exhaling puke odourants in the morning would be a terrible existence. Olfaction is one of our most primitive senses. It lets us know if we’re in danger (fire), if children need to be changed (feces), where food is (fooood), etc, etc, a pretty adaptive and necessary function. Being such a primitive sense, it has an incredibly short and quick pathway to our brain. The olfactory system is also strongly linked to the limbic system of our brain, meaning a smell can quickly trigger memories and feelings, like how moth balls could trigger memories of your grandmother. That being said, I do not want memories of puke, not her puke, not my puke. So I took it for the team. Why am I even writing this?
