The Chronicles of “B”

I know I said I was gonna try to stick to writing about my workouts and my contest prep in my blogs and not go off on a tangent but something happened today that I just got to share.

My wife and I donate plasma twice a week at the local donation center.  We both have burn victims in our families as well as hemophilia so we know how important it is to donate.  Plus we make $60.00 a piece each week for just lying on a bed for an hour with a needle in our arm.  BONUS!!  The red blood cells are returned to you so it doesn’t really effect our energy levels or anything either.  

Anyway, I go early on Mondays and Thursdays and I usually get right in, get hooked up and right back out.  Today was a different story.  It was really packed and we had to sit and wait for an available space to donate.  As I was sitting there minding my own business this dude that looked like he just come from a homeless shelter slithered over and sat down beside me.  The second he sat down I was overcome by some of the worst body odor I had ever smelled in my freaking life!!!!!  And if that wasn’t bad enough he also reeked of ciggerette smoke.  OH MY GOD!!!  I actually had to swallow hard to keep from gagging.  But that’s not the worst of it.  An older, well older than me anyway, lady slid into the chair on the other side of me with some of the rankest perfume on that you could imagine…..it smelled like she had taken a bath in it!  Plus she reeked of smoke also!!!!  I could feel my stomach starting to churn and I prayed that they would call me soon so I could get away before I hurled!! 

As waves of nausea swept over me I could feel myself getting angrier and angrier.  WTF!!!  How could these 2 not know how bad they freaking smelled.  Does ciggerette smoke destroy all sense of smell or what???  I actually pulled the collar of my shirt up and covered my mouth and nose hopeing they would get the message but they seemed oblivious to my insult and my disgust.

Then came the final straw.  I had the guy telling someone next to him that he worked at Ford but was here to make a little extra money.  Now I’m usually a very easy going guy….the kind that wouldn’t say shit even if I had a mouthful but when I heard this nasty individual say he worked at Ford I exploded.  I turned to him and said,  "You fu&*ing work at Ford and you can’t even afford to buy a bar of soap or what??"  The dudes jaw hit the floor but I wasn’t done!!  "You freaking stink dude and you’re about to make me puke," I yelled.  " How in the hell could you come to a place like this, who has to maintain sanitary conditions, looking and smelling like you just crawled out of a trash can?"  Then I turned my wrath to the poor woman.  "And you lady…..It’s perfume not bodywash…you don’t have to take a GD bath in it!!!"

Before either one of them could respond the other patrons around me started clapping and shouting their support and one very refined young woman looked at the homeless looking guy and shouted…."Hey Stinky…sit somewhere else!"

With that both got out of their seats and made a hasty exit.  I know, I know I was wrong and should have just moved but man sometimes smokers make me sooooo mad I just couldn’t take it anymore.  I mean I know not all smokers aren’t rude a$$holes but the ones that are a-holes are really super a-holes. 

So to make this long story a little shorter I was so overcome with nausea from the smell and from my explosion that I had to leave without donating.  Several people though including a couple of employees of the center thanked me for going off on the stinking duo. 

And last but not least I’m skipping my leg workout tonight because I haven’t been able to eat much today and still feel weak to the stomach!!!  YuCK!!

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