DAILY WRITING (12)

 THURSDAY 28TH OCTOBER, 2021

WHAT’S WRONG WITH MY NOSE?

My personal person, how are you today? How was work? How did your classes go? Are you home now? Stuck in traffic? Have you eaten?

Pele. Everything will be fine, okay?

When someone is trying to take you for a fool, what do you do? I’d like to know. I wanna check something. If you give a reply, I could tell you the reason why I asked the question.

Today, my nose became hypersensitive. 

I have a number of friends and even family members who can pick up bad odour or nice smell so fast. For example, there was a time we had to use rat poison in the house because the rats were just using us to do skelewu (Does this happen to you too?). We tried the rat gum; they would eat the fish from it and escape. So, rat poison came to the rescue. When we didn’t hear any rats’ movements, we knew it had work. 

Then, another big concern, where did they hide to die? You know how these rats will go to one hidden place to go and die. (Imagine them going to one corner, thinking, “You silly people dare kill me? I will not go down without a fight. I will hide here and make sure you people look for my dead body while taking all the stench my dead body will emit. 😂😂😂)

Anyway, that’s how one day, my brother (cousin) entered the house and said everywhere was smelling like a dead rat. Everyother person in the house began saying it. Me? I couldn’t percieve anything. The air was normal. The next day, they could not take it. Me? No smell. Omoooo……we searched one of the rooms in the house. They could not bear the stench. Not until we got closer to finding the dead rat I exclaimed, covering my nose, “Fffmmmm…..this rat dey smell ooo. Jesus!” 😂😂😂

Everyone looked at me and shook their heads. “So, na now your own nose wake up, abi?” my cousin replied.

Shey it’s my fault ni.

For a foodie like me, there are days I do not even percieve food even though everyone else might be saying how bad or nice it smells. It would take a while before my nose starts to percieve it.

But one thing my nose catches easily is perfumes. The scents of perfume; nice, gentle, strong, horrible, choking etc., my nose will catch it.

There’s this perfume we used to call in Warri, ‘Hausa perfume’. I think the reason why it’s called that is because it has this smell of its own (Sorry to say, it’s not pleasant to the nose at all), is sold by Hausas and was used mostly by them. Almost every aboki who sold wristwatches, repaired our shoes etc. used it. So many times, you’d hear a person say, “Abeg, hope this perfume na better one ooo. I nor want Hauda perfume ooo.” I heard it lasts long in clothes too. Imagine that kinda odour going with you everywhere. I cannot even begin to can the thing, abeg.

Why am I writing about perfumes? 

Well, today, I could perceive every single person’s perfume thag walked or sat beside me. (Maybe if I was more serious with it, I could tell with the names. I know the scents, but never the names.) Some of the scents were mild, some had really nice scents I almost wanted to ask the persons the name of their perfumes, some I felt was too strong. I sneezed like two times when one guy walked past me because of his perfume.

BUT THAT’S NOT EVEN WHERE I’M GOING. One lady’s perfume wanted to choke me in the bus today. The perfect example of ‘E choke’. Jesu Atofarati! It’s God that saved me ooo.

I didn’t perceive immediately the bus stopped. If I had, I would have told the driver to move along. I was seated beside her at the back, just settling, when the ‘scent’ came with full force to my nose. I wasn’t seated close to the window, Lord knows I’d have faced there till I got to my bus stop. 

I coughed. I sneezed. The lady ‘e choke’ me with her perfume today ooo. When I dropped from the bus, I took in like three gulps of air so quickly.

I wonder how nobody else reacted to the perfume except me.

Maybe it’s the reason why I don’t stick to one perfume or deodorant. I get bored with one scent too quickly. Long before my perfume finishes, I’m already tired of using it because I’m tired of the scent. No matter how much I love that scent or even take a picture of the container so I would get it in the market, na lie ooo. I will perceive another one and buy it. 

Thinking back now, the brand of perfume I’ve used the longest in this life was HOT ICE (That thing was reigning back then ehhhnnn. Did you use it too? If you didn’t, na wa ooo.) Hot Ice had different types, so it helped. I didn’t repeat a particular type twice. At all.

So when people tell me, “I only use this perfume,” I cannot relate at all. But who knows, later in life when I blow and start buying expensive perfumes, I may stick to one. As I write this, I am doing ‘yimu’ to myself gan. 😂😂😂😂

Aside from this woman almost choking me to death, today was a pretty normal day for me. I even got to work earlier. So, all in all, it went well. After thinking for hours what to eat, I’ve finally settled with Indomie ooo. What are you having for dinner? Tell me in the comments section below.