#4) he therefore clearly thought the fact she smelled of pickled eggs was the strongest identifying factor about her. not like. her age | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

fingertipsmp3 · 1 year ago

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On today’s episode of “the things crazy people say mean nothing to them but everything to me,” I am once again thinking about this lad at school who told us all he was texting someone he called “Ellie fr’m t’ market,” and when asked what her last name was, said “dunno. She smells of pickled eggs”

#yes i left school 11 years ago yes this happened just about 11 or 12 years ago yes it has stuck with me all that time #there were so many things about it #1) the fact he never clarified which market it was. meant there was a particular market that he was partial to and assumed everyone else was #2) he knew the specific smell of pickled eggs well enough to confidently say that this person smelled like them #3) he offered up this information as if; in lieu of her last name; it might help us find her #4) he therefore clearly thought the fact she smelled of pickled eggs was the strongest identifying factor about her. not like. her age #or appearance or what she was likely to be wearing or where she might be from #5) the image of this lad getting close enough to a girl at the market to smell her sort of horrified me at the time #he wasn’t the type of person most girls wanted within six feet of them #6) just the fact that this girl smelled of pickled eggs kind of sent me #i never got any resolution for any of this. maybe that’s why it stuck with me #i feel like if i’d ever seen ellie fr’m t’ market that might’ve eased my mind. but i never did so it hasn’t #maybe one day i will smell her. and then we can put this matter to rest #personal

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