Kingdumb Hall Smell (page 2)

White Dove

I know the smell: old man smell wafting in from the library where JCs occur mixed in with all the old dust on the "old light" books. It's just sort of all mixed together.

I hated the butt cookie smell on the vinyl seats. I'd roll into kingdom land all saved shaved and well behaved with a fresh from the cleaners suit on and after an hour of sitting on one of kingdom chairs my pants smelled like I'd laid a cable in em.

One old gal brought a cushion to sit on to the hall and I always thought it was so she could sit soft, but on reflection, I think the cushion was so she didn't go home smelling like buffalo boy's butt.

bigdreaux

gary, i almost fell out of my chair at what you posted. sooo damn funny.

journey-on

OMY, Garybuss, I'm laughing so hard I can hardly type. (buffalo boy's butt..?)

return visitor

good one gary lol

Highlander

Gary is right. If you ever attended a congregation in a small town such as in the dakotas, or in my case Minnesota, you would see that a lot of the congregation members did not always have good personal hygiene. That usually translated into stinky butts that would create stinky chairs.

bigdreaux

gary didn't say anything about bad hygiene. i'm sure all of us, not matter how clean, have walked away from a meeting with mudbutt.

BFD

I could not resist opening this thread and I'm glad I did. Gary you are too funny.

I do remember as a kid the smell that Andre described. Now when I go to church on rare occasions with my brother and his family my favorite part is when the preist comes around with the smokey ball. It's a much "holier" smell to me.

BFD

garybuss

"walked away from a meeting with mudbutt"

MUDBUTT!!! Hahahaha!!!!

WTWizard

There are reasons for that smell, and one of those is the fact that they are constantly bringing in cases of new literature. The ink is still outgassing, and that solvent that is used to make the ink evaporates into the Kingdumb Hells. That is why it's so much stronger in the literature counter. This never has a chance to dissipate, since new magazines and books are coming in every few weeks and there is no ventilation in the Hell. Many bookstores have a similar odor, but is usually less pronounced since the places are better ventilated.

Bad hygiene odors are not as noticeable, at least in the Hell where I went to. Likely, this is the result of too much time spent getting out in the field misery and having to go to too many meetings, leaving inadequate (or in some cases, no) time to take baths and do basic hygiene. Bad breath and body odor result from this. Often people have to go to the Kingdumb Hell straight out of work. And the lousy ventilation makes what would have been a minor problem into a major one, since it has the chance to accumulate and get even worse.

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