Two Quick Rants

Just a note while I'm here at the coffee shop:

1. Ladies (especially) and gentlemen: please do not bathe in perfume (aftershave). If you can smell your little "spritz" all day, you probably are putting too much on. There is a conventional wisdom that you dab cologne on the spots that you want someone to nuzzle, kiss. If you can smell them without being THAT close to you, then it's too much. It makes me physically naseous to smell someone's strong perfume, and that makes being in a public place next to you (six feet away damnit) while your stinky musky old lady cologne wafts into my space PAINFUL TO ME. I am not just saying this to be picky. It really does make me feel ill to smell these strong scents. I am not at all alone-- I have a slight sensitivity to smells brought on over the years partly because of hormone therapies, but probably just a natural thing too.

2. If you're enjoying your frozen whipped cream coffee drink in a public place, try to contain your moans of "mmmm" and slurpy noisy lip-smacking pleasure. Keep it down to, say, one when you first start drinking. If I have to smell your stinky perfum AND hear your enjoyment of a mere coffee drink which rivals the sounds made by your basic porn queen, I'm going to get really cranky and start writing about you in my blog.

Just FYI.