Pickles by Brian Crane for October 12, 2020

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    allen@home  over 3 years ago

    Opal probably uses one of those spring fresh dryer sheets as well.

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    KA7DRE Premium Member over 3 years ago

    If its a cold day, you can always stick your hands under the dryer vent to warm up a tad.

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    Ratkin  over 3 years ago

    Global warming.

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    hammytech  over 3 years ago

    Ahhhh.. house farts

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    iggyman  over 3 years ago

    They are used to keep mice out of a stored car!

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    Breadboard  over 3 years ago

    When walking outside you can smell those in use from a great distance ! Reminds me of someone who fell into a perfume or cologne bottle ;-)

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    jpayne4040  over 3 years ago

    I actually like those smells from the dryer vent. You don’t want to smell it too long though. :-)

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    jagedlo  over 3 years ago

    Way to ruin things, Opal!

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    Grace Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Ours vents out to a deck (yeah, dumb) but it does keep the area warmer in fall if I have it running.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I hate the smell of dryer sheets.

    The stifling aroma of them used to waft heavily from the place next door, for days at a time….

    sometimes all the way into my windows.

     

    The woman who lived there was very nice…

    One day I asked her what brand of fabric softener she used…

    I didn’t say I didn’t like it… only that I could smell it when she did laundry.

    Turned out she didn’t have a washer or dryer, and did her laundry at the laundromat.

     

    But she told me she kept several dryer sheets in the vacuum cleaner bag…

    it was some household hint she’d read for making your house smell “clean” when you vacuum….

    (and apparently for perfuming the whole neighborhood for days afterward.)

     

    More recently, I filled out a survey about laundry products…

    it asked whether my current detergent had enough scent, too much, or too little.

    I always think any is too much.

     

    I must be in the minority…

    Since then, they’ve come out with scent “boosters” …

    They’ll perfume away any whisper of actual freshness that your detergent would have left in your laundry…

    and make it all reek of artificial flowers, or maybe phony “sea foam” or somebody’s idea of “spring rain.”

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    Less Monday... More Friday  over 3 years ago

    Ain’t that the truth.

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    Zebrastripes  over 3 years ago

    When my neighbor dries clothes I can smell the nauseating scent in my house….ugh

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    BearsDown Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Scents from laboratories…

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    sbwertz  over 3 years ago

    When I was a little girl, my father was an oilfield mechanic, and we lived in a trailer and followed the oil boom all over the western US. I can remember when it was cold weather, we kids used to sit and play outside the laundry room at the trailer park where the vents from the big commercial dryers blew out. It was warm and cozy even on a very cold day.

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    Bookworm  over 3 years ago

    Artificial scents have always been problematic. I’m reminded of the line in “The Boys In The Band” (1970) occurring after a guest at the party is sick in the bathroom: “Before it smelled like someone puked. Now it smells like someone puked in a gardenia patch.”

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    timbob2313 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Wife is badly allergic to perfumes, so always buy the white carton of Tide

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    Herd of Turtles  over 3 years ago

    Proof that venting is therapeutic.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    Who wouldn’t like the smell of the sea when you don’t live by the sea?

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    zeexenon  over 3 years ago

    Known to cause cancer in California.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    @Brian Crane – That is a funny closer!

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    mistercatworks  over 3 years ago

    Any deodorizing product that leaves a scent is clearly not doing its job. You know what smells good? Clean. No spray or wall plug-in works as well as housecleaning. It’s a terrible, terrible truth.

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    kab2rb  over 3 years ago

    That is what I smell when dryer is running from the fumes from the dryer exhaust.

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    Ricky Bennett  over 3 years ago

    I like to play Pokémon Go at Keene State College. One of the paths I take goes by the laundry house where there are ten dryer vents all in a row. Saturday is laundry day when all ten dryers are running at the same time, and standing close to those vents is like standing in a field of flowers.

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    Perkycat  over 3 years ago

    Today is trash day here………a little different scent to the air. I’m staying in.

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    Natarose  over 3 years ago

    HA HA HA!

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    kf6rro  over 3 years ago

    As a kid I would love to stand right in front of the dryer vent while it was 9n. Especially on cold days.

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  over 3 years ago

    About the only place you can reasonably expect to smell fresh air.

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    fstop8  over 3 years ago

    on my way home from grade school we passed a vanilla factory that had an exhaust fan blowing toward the side walk and we used to stay there and smell.

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    pbr50138  over 3 years ago

    Ben is right. I can ride by a laundromat and smell the dryers working. Nice.

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