A Poem

[TallPaul]

Someone at work wrote this after overhearing me talking about liking the smell of gasoline, household goop, and other miscellaneous products. the context was my work as a gas station pump jockey and washing printing plates with Xylol in the 1970s. Just thought I'd share it.
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Sniffing Solvents All Day Long


Time was
When?

You could just

Have fun

Now your Mom

Wants you

Out

Of her

Basement.

B**ch!

Huh?

What were we

Talking about?

Huh?

Time.

Yeah.

 

[IndyIan]

That is stellar! You should go in poetry reading competition.

Funny thing is, the only person I've known that sniffed solvents in their past was a guy in engineering in university, he did some in highschool when they couldn't get alcohol or pot.
I guess it didn't effect him too much?

 

[Gary Allan]

My father worked at a chemical plant. The MEK was everywhere in buckets so you could wash off the adhesives that they made/used there. Gloves? PPE? What? It was almost as good as hanging your head out the window when the gas tank door was on your side of the car.

 

[IndyIan]

Those were the good old days eh! My Dad also worked at a plant where they made transformers filled with pcb's... He remembers guys using it as hand cleaner as well...

 

[moribundman]

Originally Posted By: IndyIan
Those were the good old days eh! My Dad also worked at a plant where they made transformers filled with pcb's... He remembers guys using it as hand cleaner as well...


Luckily his memory wasn't affected!

 

[TallPaul]

Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
It was almost as good as hanging your head out the window when the gas tank door was on your side of the car.
I used to do that all the time.

 

[pickled]

Nothing like meeting the ether bunny!