Tip for the day

BUY AIR FRESHENER THAT DOESN'T SPRAY LOUDLY

Why, might you ask?  There are several reasons actually.

1)  I'm a Resident Assistant (RA).  If I knock on your door while you're doing something you shouldn't be, smoking weed let's say, you make it extremely obvious by spraying air freshener for a good 30 seconds before answering the door.  News flash: if your room smells so strongly of weed that you need to spray that much air freshener, I guarantee you I've already smelled it in the hallway.  The sound of Lysol being unleashed in your apartment just makes you look like an idiot.

2)  For the sake of any poor soul that must face the embarrassment of a bowel movement in your bathroom.  I know that everybody poops and for the majority of us, our personal waste does not smell like potpourri.  Unfortunately, there are people who think they can fool others into thinking so.  On more than one occasion I've had a boyfriend spend up to 20 minutes in my bathroom, followed by a good 2 or 3 minutes of spraying air freshener.  I will admit it's a bit awkward just chilling there waiting for him to come out of the bathroom for 20 minutes, but what's even worse is sitting there helplessly as you hear him turning your bathroom into a garden-scented gas chamber.  Guys, if you're that worried about the smell you leave behind in the bathroom, carry a book of matches in your pocket.  One lit match does the job much more efficiently and less offensively to the nose than half a bottle of Glade.  Although Heaven forbid, DO NOT light a match after spraying all that air freshener!

3)  If I'm coming over to hang out and I knock on your door and then hear you spraying a ton of air freshener around the room or apartment, it is just going to draw my attention to whatever smell you're trying to cover up.  Odds are I'm going to assume you just farted before I got there or that you don't keep your apartment clean and therefore it smells like Satan's toenails.  If you know you're about to have company, please clean up a bit and decompress your bowels in the bathroom, if you must.

I suggest buying Febreze Air Effects...it sprays quietly and unobtrusively :)