Litiquette VI

[hotwords229_A]

Every time I find inexplicable glitter on me, it takes me back to my first lap dance at the Mons Venus in Tampa.

Okay, Mons Venus just triggered a ton of memories. My friends and I went there for spring break during college. We started at Mons then proceeded to Clearwater.

Great times, great memories and lots of boners.

 

[Sh75]

Music is also the biggest thing for me, it can take me back to a moment in time in a heartbeat. Those events can be of great times, times of excitement, just the memory of a person or a location, a few bring back sad memories but all have an extraordinary clarity or vividness of that particular moment in time or the person involved. One daggy song in particular takes me back to just sitting on a couch in my aunty and uncles place. I can see the decor, remember the weather and the smell of their house, it was the Mull of Kintyre, and i still love it to this day.

 

[Lord Pmann]

There's a song that really brings back a lot of memories. I've played it at two of my loved ones' funerals. It's Go Rest High by Vince Gill. https://youtu.be/HUj_BMYt5ak

The song was always a tear jerker, anyway. You have to be a robot not to cry at that song. But hearing that brings both happy and sad memories of my family. A sense of remembrance and a sense of loss.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Smell and music are huge for me, too.
There are a few songs that solicit huge pangs of nostalgia when I hear them. I've romanticized the pain and struggle of bygone eras and I am left feeling "odd" when those songs come on.

Food is also a huge trigger for me. Meals were a big deal when I was a kid. I recently made sausage rolls which was a big treat for an expat.

Like anything, I think it's the things you take for granted that you miss even they're no longer around. And our brains have a way of making things seem better than they actually were due to an availability (or lack of) bias.
But my sausage rolls were fucking delicious.

 

[hotwords229_A]

I guess smell is the biggest one. When I walk through a cloud of cigarette smoke it reminds me of a number of my older relatives (who are all gone now). I may be one of the few people left who smells cigarettes and thinks of happy times rather than douchily waving my hands around and acting like a victim.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

The smell of cigarettes reminds me of one of my jobs I had at a pub. Smoking hadn't been banned indoors and working in that toxic, filthy sir was awful. Australia banned smoking indoors while I worked there and my personal life got so much better. The grossest part of that job was cleaning ashtrays and the federal government removed that from my job description.
To this day when I smell cigarettes, I am immediately transported to late nights in the pub gagging while I wipe out ashtrays

 

[blade_rocknut]

Since music seems to be the vibe at current, and somehow y'all wound up on whores last night, my memory went here.

https://youtu.be/NraGiYOGHlk

 

[hotwords229_A]

Since music seems to be the vibe at current, and somehow y'all wound up on whores last night, my memory went here.

https://youtu.be/NraGiYOGHlk

Since reading your post about Mons this morning I can’t get the song Zombie by The Cranberries out of my head. A great song to strip to.

https://youtu.be/Uv5wF-E9D8Y

 

[Suz_anne]

Scents do it for me. A whiff of men's Obsession cologne transports me back to a dorm room in the 90's.

Strawberry scented shampoo reminds me of being a kid, taking a shower after a long day of swimming in the lake and then my mom rubbing Noxema on my sunburned shoulders before being sent off to bed.

My grandma used lemon and vinegar a lot to clean different surfaces in her house and when I smell that combination, it is like I'm in her kitchen again.

 

[Endless_Night]

Yes, you may. I’m a dude, I checked


I’d also like to submit, for the record, that my contributions to today’s discussion were both charming and insightful.

So noted. Charming, insightful, and well-muscled contribution.

Also, wouldn't it be a strange twist Lit twist if you were, in fact, a woman masquerading as a dude?




(Lack of sleep may be getting to me. )

 

[Endless_Night]

Every time I find inexplicable glitter on me, it takes me back to my first lap dance at the Mons Venus in Tampa.

Okay, Mons Venus just triggered a ton of memories. My friends and I went there for spring break during college. We started at Mons then proceeded to Clearwater.

Great times, great memories and lots of boners.

Ah. Mons Venus and my first lap dance….


NOT REALLY




* * *

Scents particularly, and places revisited. Too many to list.

 

[Lord Pmann]

I tried to post a link to some scents that make me happy. It's very difficult to do that.

 

[Suz_anne]

I tried to post a link to some scents that make me happy. It's very difficult to do that.

Scrotums and puppy breath? That's easy. G-O-O-G-L-E

 

[aussiegeekygal]

By the end of this month we're going to have a strong association with the smell of hand sanitizer.

 

[tnman03]

By the end of this month we're going to have a strong association with the smell of hand sanitizer.

Or hand soap if the hand sanitizer runs out.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Or hand soap if the hand sanitizer runs out.

Granted, I don't sniff my hands as deeply after washing them with soap.

 

[Fermina_Daza]

Music is a big trigger for me.

For me, the song that brings with it the strongest emotions every time I randomly hear it is this one:

https://youtu.be/fahr069-fzE

I can’t really listen to this song without crying, so I don’t, ever. But I do hear it randomly in TV shows or out at the shops and so on, and it’ steals my air every time. I find it impossible to tune out the shock of hearing it and the memory of the moment it places me in.

Music = all the feels. I can't listen to anything by Phantogram. Although there are songs from different musicians from that time I still listen to regularly without issue. So weird.

For me it's nursing homes. I spent so much time visiting my grandmother in one. I was holding her hand when she passed. It's that combination of Pinesol, urine, and death.

 

[SMNaughtywife]

Music = all the feels. I can't listen to anything by Phantogram. Although there are songs from different musicians from that time I still listen to regularly without issue. So weird.

For me it's nursing homes. I spent so much time visiting my grandmother in one. I was holding her hand when she passed. It's that combination of Pinesol, urine, and death.

Pinesol. That stuff will be the last thing on the shelves after all this craziness.
That right next to the milk and honey SoftSoap.
Nows the time to buy some P&G stock, I need to talk to a fella about this.

 

[default24]

Pinesol. That stuff will be the last thing on the shelves after all this craziness.
That right next to the milk and honey SoftSoap.
Nows the time to buy some P&G stock, I need to talk to a fella about this.

Very soon is the time to buy almost any stock. Good time to have $ on hand

 

[Endless_Night]

Or hand soap if the hand sanitizer runs out.

It already has here. People are panic buying like crazy. The stores have instituted purchase limits on certain items. Some of the shortage articles seem very strange.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

I have bleach on hand and am on a 4 week isolation order, so I'm not crazy concerned about contracting anything.
But I'm guessing I'm going to be sick of the smell of bleach by the end of this, too.

And EN- our supermarkets are completely out of sanitizing wipes and hand sanitizer. It's nuts.

 

[tnman03]

It already has here. People are panic buying like crazy. The stores have instituted purchase limits on certain items. Some of the shortage articles seem very strange.

People are so unhinged sometimes. Soap and water were around long before the sanitizing gels. With the level of panic in place now it'll really become interesting if there are food disruptions or shortages in heavily populated areas.

 

[Endless_Night]

People are so unhinged sometimes. Soap and water were around long before the sanitizing gels. With the level of panic in place now it'll really become interesting if there are food disruptions or shortages in heavily populated areas.

What I don't get are gallons of water and toilet paper. I mean, bizarre. It's not like city services are anywhere close to shutting down.

Oh! And flu meds.

Some of the local hospitals have had thefts. Like surgical masks out of the OR. People can be really disturbing.

 

[Endless_Night]

< And EN- our supermarkets are completely out of sanitizing wipes and hand sanitizer. It's nuts.

Yeah. I think we're in the same city.

Honestly, I think the people panic is far more dangerous than the virus. At least for those not high risk.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Yeah. I think we're in the same city.

Honestly, I think the people panic is far more dangerous than the virus. At least for those not high risk.

The panic is the most overwhelming part

I mean, I enjoy having a healthy stash of TP but I'm one of the few that NEEDS to have a few weeks worth on hand in case of isolation demands. I'm good, though...

Watching the lines of panicked shoppers at Costco's around the country just screams "infection control" to me. It's so not worth it to save a few bucks.
And hoarding water?!
Do they think it's a hurricane that may impact the water supply? I don't get that one, but it's entertaining/horrifying to watch from the sidelines.

For now, I am getting a lot of practice eating frozen and dried food.

And I wonder if we are in the same city... That would be a trip!