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stroppy_wanadoo (original poster member #11224) posted at 2:14 PM on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
I made a new recipe last night - Italian Mac and Cheese. It called for 3 cloves of garlic, pressed. No biggie, I have cooked with garlic before. But something was different with this garlic. It was SUPER garlic... hopped up on steroids or something. With a super pungent smell.
Today, I wake and shower. Shower (which is upstairs in our bedroom, well away from the kitchen) smells like garlic when you pull back the curtain. I scrubbed well to be sure the smell wasn't all over me. All seems fine.
Until I am driving to work. My whole hour-plus commute, all I could smell was garlic. Not even fresh garlic, but day-old, already consumed garlic. I sniffed my hands, arms... no noticeable garlic smell. But it's coming from somewhere, because my eyes are watering and my nostrils burning.
Arrive at work and bend down to pick up my purse from the floor. GARLIC SMELL IS EMINTATING FROM MY CORE... and I realize with fright - it's my BRA! Yes, I wore the same bra yesterday while I was cooking. I only have three good ones in the rotation...
I make a critical and difficult decision. I have to lose the bra. Which means my 38DDDs are loose under a cami and sweater. But I can not wear that bra all day. I am anxiously awaiting 10 am when the store near me opens so I can buy a new one. Meanwhile, I am trying hard not to move, so I don't swing and give myself or someone else a black eye. And my bra is tied up in a plastic garbage bag that I rummaged from the bottom of my trash can (thanks, housekeeping, for leaving a spare!!!).
Oh - did I mention that one of the company's highest level presidents stopped me in the hall to chat on the way back from removing the offending bra? Yeah. I kept my arms folded across my chest lest a cold breeze make me point at him...
All this commotion just so my family could have dinner last night. And the Italian mac and cheese wasn't even that good.
Amazonia ( member #32810) posted at 2:18 PM on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
"You yourself deserve your love and affection as much as anybody in the universe." -Buddha
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knightsbff ( member #36853) posted at 2:19 PM on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
fWW 40s, BH 40s
D-day 27 Aug 2012. Kids 25, 17, 13. 2 dogs.
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Kalleigh ( member #1214) posted at 3:26 PM on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
I love my husband and kids, but there is something missing, LIKE MAYBE A LIFE!!!!!!!
nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 3:28 PM on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
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Pentup ( member #20563) posted at 4:21 PM on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Yeah. I kept my arms folded across my chest lest a cold breeze make me point at him...
Lucky you! If I were free swinging my 38d's and there was a cold breeze, we would both be trying to see what I was pointing to on the floor. 
Me- BS
Him- FWS (I hope- F)
lynnm1947 ( member #15300) posted at 4:45 PM on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Age: 64..ummmmmmm, no...............65....no...oh, hell born in 1947. You figure it out!
"I could have missed the pain, but I would have had to miss the dance." Garth Brooks
stroppy_wanadoo (original poster member #11224) posted at 5:47 PM on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Pentup... he's shorter than me. 
I just wanted to let everyone know the crisis has passed. The girls have been returned to their rightful place on my chest. Plus, bras were buy one, get one for $10. So I even have a spare!
Aubrie ( member #33886) posted at 5:52 PM on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Ohhhh stroppy. Thanks for the laugh.
I called my girlfriend and was like, "So listen to this..." and we laughed and laughed.
Glad you're safe and secure again.
"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - J. Wayne
TrulyReconciled ( member #3031) posted at 10:51 PM on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
"In a time of deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act."
authenticnow ( member #16024) posted at 12:34 AM on Thursday, April 17th, 2014
DS, you are forever in my heart. Thank you for sharing your beautiful spirit with me. I will always try to live by the example you have set. I love you and miss you every day and am sorry you had to go so soon, it just doesn't seem fair.
jrc1963 ( member #26531) posted at 1:40 AM on Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Lucky you! If I were free swinging my 38d's and there was a cold breeze, we would both be trying to see what I was pointing to on the floor.
Same here... except mine are 38H's and they'd be poking out the bottom of my shirt!
ETA: Stroppy - That's too funny.... This is why you have to have more bras in your rotation!!
[This message edited by jrc1963 at 7:41 PM, April 16th (Wednesday)]
Me: BSO - 56 Him: FWSO - 79 DS - 23 D-Day - 12-11-09, R - he finally came homeYour life is an Occasion. Rise to it. - Mr. Magorium, "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium"
kernel ( member #27035) posted at 2:32 AM on Thursday, April 17th, 2014
This thread is hilarious - thanks for the laugh! This topic makes me think of the time my Mom called a bra an over-the-shoulder boulder-holder! It still makes me laugh. 
"On particularly rough days when I'm sure I can't possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100% and that's pretty good."
BrokenRoad ( member #15334) posted at 2:45 AM on Thursday, April 17th, 2014
This happens every time I make garlic bread.
I smell it on me all day the next day!
{Him}FBH - 51 (WifeHad5){Me} FWW - 52 2 kids: 16 & 21 Reconciled :)*Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.*
Kelany ( member #34755) posted at 2:48 AM on Thursday, April 17th, 2014
BS - Me
SA/FWH Him
DDay 1 - Jul 11
DDay 2 - Jul 12
R Dec 12
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stroppy_wanadoo (original poster member #11224) posted at 4:11 PM on Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Proud to report that I am smelling like a normal human today. Vampires may be attracted to me again.
I am so glad I provided laughs to so many... I was laughing myself, and I told one of my sisters who howled all day and kept texting me funny questions about the state of the ladies.
JanaGreen ( member #29341) posted at 4:15 PM on Thursday, April 17th, 2014
LMAO I'm glad you got everything under control! Great story.
metamorphisis ( member #12041) posted at 10:13 PM on Thursday, April 17th, 2014
This is the best thing I have read all week.
Go softly my sweet friend. You will always be a part of who I am.
FaithFool ( member #20150) posted at 8:12 PM on Friday, April 18th, 2014
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
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to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
little turtle ( member #15584) posted at 10:08 PM on Friday, April 18th, 2014
Great story!!
Failure is success if we learn from it.
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