It is Stream of Consciousness Saturday time again and this week’s prompt is “smell.” If you would like to get involved visit Linda Hill’s blog and learn how. Be sure to wipe your feet though cause Linda just cleaned. Here is the link https://lindaghill.com/2017/05/26/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-may-2717/
Smell by John W. Howell © 2017
“Hey, you.”
“Yeah what”
“You smell that?”
“What?”
“Whatta you mean what? Don’t tell me you can’t smell that stench”
“I don’t smell no stench.”
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
“You from around here?”
“No. I just got into town.”
“Ah, figures.”
“Okay, I give. What figures?”
“Why you think the place smells.”
“Doesn’t it?”
“What’s the name of the town.”
“Fishkill.”
“I rest my case.”
“You mean this town smells like its name?”
“I’m saying that there has been fishing here forever. and some of the smell hangs on.”
“How long till I won’t notice it anymore?”
“Depends.”
“On what.”
“How old are you now?”
“Fifty.”
“You better move.”
Fiction Favorites 
I’ve never liked going into the fishmongers I have to say….a whole town would be too much and I’m over fifty so I better not even stop…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yeah, keep on driving. Thanks, Michael.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wonderful – some things do take a lot of getting used to! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
I would say. Thanks, Jan 🙂
LikeLike
I would so keep driving. Fish stink is heinous to me.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I agree. Keep driving g is good advice.
LikeLike
I totally get this one, John. We have a paper mill in our town. It’s not nearly as bad these days, but when I first moved here, phew.
LikeLiked by 1 person
We lived near an ethane plant once. Same phew. Thanks, Dan
LikeLiked by 1 person
My mother won’t let my father cook fish in the house. I guess she’s never gotten used to it. Happy Saturday, John!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I haven’t either. Happy Saturday to you, Jill. *Sung to the tune of “Girl Watcher” by the O’Kaysions
LikeLike
Great song! I think that’s how “I’m a wheel watcher” came about for Wheel of Fortune. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
That could be.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Clever dialogue, John. Dead fish definitely have a distinct stench – a place to avoid for sure! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I would think so. Thanks, Gwen. 🙂
LikeLike
Is there a Fishkill where you live? There’s one up here in New York about an hour north of the city.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ve been there. 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
There’s also a town called Beaverkill as well!
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
LikeLike
Thank you, Michael.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Always with a great pleasure, and many thank for the useful information. Michael
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yay. Your comment came through. 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thx for the response. Sorry, sometimes also our WP-Reader seems to filter postings by themself. 😉 Michael
LikeLiked by 1 person
I understand. I’ll check spam more often.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Perfect!! I grew up in Hobbs, New Mexico and the smell from the refinery that sat right in town was like rotten cabbage. I never got used to it. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I know what you mean. For me it was an Ethanol plant.
LikeLike
Gee, I live only an hour from Hoserkill – sorry John, couldn’t resist! Great dialog once more, good sir!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ha ha ha.
LikeLike
Know what’s worse? Paper mills…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes. So true
LikeLike
I could not live in a fishy town or with fishy people.:)
LikeLiked by 1 person
Me either. Thanks, Micki.
LikeLike
Fresh sea air I love the smell of, and there is some essence of fish to that, but Fishkill…no I’d be moving on.
Last year I made my first trip to NYC and the first 5 days I was a bit uncomfortable with the smell. I complained about it. Almost the entire city smelled like rotting cabbage, with a slightly chemical smell to it. ICK!
I didn’t smell it at the harbor, or in Harlem and that’s where I wished the whole city smelled.
5 days in and the about the end of my trip I didn’t smell it as much.
So, it would have taken a week to get desensitized to the smell there I think.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes a week sounds about right. Thanks Deborah.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Something fishy this way comes, haha!
Well done good sir, well done.
LikeLike
We have a pet food plant where I live – the smell doesn’t bother me at all, but non-pet people can’t stand it. Would rather have pet food smell than dead fish any day!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’m with you.
LikeLike
That’s what folks say about beef and hog farms, too. My grandpa used to say…that’s the smell of money.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes. The oil guys say the same.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, they do
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person