Greenhouse gases are not the ONLY cause of air pollution.

So I think I may have mentioned that I have this abhorrence of one type of scent that gets put in colognes like CK One and Eternity.  Anytime I smell it I get very sick and want to flush my nose out with bleach just to remove the smell.  I never get used to it and am pretty much upset until they go away and the stench dissipates. 

So this am I was clicking away happily at my desk when I started picking up a faint whiff of it.  Senses go on high alert and I start sniffing trying to zero in on the source.  I hear a sound in the empty cube next to me and then a blast of the stench hits me full force.  SOMEONE is in that cubicle and they have BATHED in Eternity...  So now I'm covering my face and have turned my fan on HIGH and point it at the cubicle wall in the hopes of redirecting air flow. 

Works about 70%.   After about an hour of this King Stinky gets up and leaves - taking his laptop with him. He's left his bag behind so I know he's coming back.  Well crap - if I have to spend the day smelling this crap - I'm going to get a headache and get cranky and well no one needs that.  Not if I can prevent it. 

So here's the dilemma - its not like I should walk up to the guy and tell him that he smells and he needs to move somewhere else - preferably the other side of the floor.  I can do that - I'm fine with doing that but I shouldn't.  Its sorta rude and well its not his fault I'm completely opposed to his cologne.  Its a cheap cologne that's very easy to over due - usually just putting it on at all is overdosing it.  ;-)  So I have very few options. 

However I DO have a plant thingie on my desk that needs water and it just happens to be on the wall separating our two spaces...  

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Yeah so apparently I'm REALLY sloppy when I water plants because I managed to miss the plant entirely with the first glass and DUMPED it on the desk in the next cubicle.  CRAP - what a mess - and well now no one can sit there until the water is either cleaned up or dries....  BUMMER!!!  I'm such a bubble-head sometimes.