The Nose Knows

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This old gal…

Learned a trick from a snowbird friend…put clothes in plastic zipper bags…then squeeze them in nooks and crannies when packing the car for long trips…

Have a couple of totes for Texas…Texas totes…to tote…Texas stuff…small coffee maker…bathroom rugs…plastic zipper bags for clothes…

Was packing away…when the eyes began to water…the nose began to burn…there was a stench…a reeky eye burning stench…

Sniffed this…and that…here…and there…smelled like insecticide…putrid and strong…was it imagination…a tumor…a nasal issue…no…

It was the bags…the bags…now filled…with clean clothes…went to the basement and sniffed the Texas totes…around…the Texas totes..in…the Texas totes…and deduced…

One of us…spider hater that he is…zealously drenched the basement…nooks and crannies…all around…those Texas totes…with spider spray…

And apparently spider spray…seeps into nooks and crannies…even nooks and crannies…of sealed…Texas totes…

And so it is…sleuth me solved the mystery…of the stench…and it just goes to show…when someone calls foul…the nose knows…what the nose…knows…
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And this husband of mine…agrees…