The Stork,
                The Guinea Pig
                                    & The Elephant

I don’t have a great sense of smell. It’s true! I just can’t smell many things, which can be a curse (what does a rose smell like?) or a blessing (can normally go to the toilet after anyone has been in there for longer than 10 minutes to do a number two!). I do smell some things, but it is totally arbritary what I can and cannot smell. For example, I can smell grass which has been recently cut, but I cannot smell many of the perfumes or after shaves in the shops. I can’t usually smell food being cooked or cleaning products, but I can smell my boyfriend’s deadly farts.

I’m only telling you this because twenty minutes ago, I was bored at my desk waiting for what I had previously scanned get through the computer system to my PC, and I saw a green whiteboard marker lying around my desk for no reason. It isn’t mine. I picked it up and in what I can only call an action-reaction situation, I opened it and smelled it. Or tried to, since I couldn’t smell anything after the first sniff. So I did it again. Nothing. Third time lucky (as they said) some sense of what a marker smells off came to my nostrils, but it was a very faint smell, so I tried a fourth time, and a fifth time, by which point, not only did I finally smell the horrendous smell, but I had started having a bit of a headache.

Fastforward twenty minutes, to right now, and the headache has not only not gone away, but there is a fluffly pink elephant seductively winking in front of me, a unicorn sleeping in the corner and some gobblings banging the windows trying to get into the office. I really feel like I should tell someone that we have suddenly transported to Narnia, but I feel like if I do tell them, they wouldn’t believe me…  In any case, I shall create a little fortress around my desk in case those gobblins break in…

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