Thursday, August 23, 2007

Is it Catchy?

I think the smell of S may be contagious. Gross, eh? Megan was in the shower this morning, and when she was finished and picked up her towel she asked me to smell S's basket on the counter, next to where her towel had been. Now, I'm always stuffy in the morning, so I couldn't really smell anything, though I've noticed that his room has a regular S odor now. So I told her that I couldn't really smell anything, but I wasn't really willing to get very close to find out. Then she holds up her towel (Thanks for the view, btw.) and tells me to smell that. I was much more willing to put that right up to my nose, because I figure he hasn't actually touched that, and i definitely caught a faint B.O., S-like smell. So I'm very concerned now, because I'm wondering what else his smell may be clinging to. I go out of my way to push him towards the leather chair in the living room, rather than the microfiber couch, because I figure the leather is less likely to soak his stink in deep. When I see him head for the living room, I try to jump on the couch so that he'll sit on the chair. He's pretty much conditioned to go only to the chair now, so that may be one crisis averted, but now I'm wondering what else I need to do. Do I need to cover all of the furniture in drop cloths, like the scary old houses on Scooby Doo? Paper line the carpets? Spend thousands on an air purification system? Suddenly this cost saving move is sounding kinda expensive!