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Originally Posted by Brewmaster
Should we outlaw perfumes and colognes as well because I don't like the way it smells?
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I'd wager we're getting pretty close to this point. Right now, it's getting very hard to wear any sort of perfume or cologne at a workplace without someone screaming about their allergies.
I have a friend who's (government based) office just went perfume/cologne free since a co-worker had a massive allergic reaction to someone's perfume...they think. They can't even pinpoint the source of the reaction, but have "proactively" taken on perfumes and colognes (according to her, anyhow, though I have no reason to assume she's lying to me.)
How about the Calgary Transit issues that aren't that old, with the lady being asked to leave a bus due to a lot of perfume? It seems that "allergy" is the magic word these days. Wave it around, and see what happens. One kid in a school is allergic to peanuts? Watch how fast the entire school becomes a nut free (at least, of the shelled variety...) zone.
Back on topic-ish. My beef with smokers isn't the smell, though I don't like that. It's not that you generally have to wade through/around/over the herd of them at a door entrance, either. It's the fact that not a single one seems to know how to use a freakin' ashcan. Anywhere you go, you can easily tell where the smokers congregate (if they aren't out smoking, that is) by just looking at the ground. THAT is what is disgusting to me.