Friday, April 03, 2009

Eau de Elevator

Love my apartment building. Love my very understanding landlords. But lately, one of the landlords has taken to filling the hallways and elevator with air freshener spray. And I do mean filling, as in causing such a big white cloud of spray that it makes it hard to see through the fog.

I don't recall the building smelling bad before - and I have one sensitive smeller, I tell you - so I don't know what has prompted the daily fog of perfume. Make that two, three times a day. And it's the kind of air spray that triggers other toilet smells as well, if you get my - cough, cough - drift.

It's particularly hard to make it down or up five floors in an elevator saturated with your standard air freshener. One breath and coughing spasms start, eyes water. Same with the outer vestibule where we pick up our mail. Quick! Hold breath, insert mailbox key, fumble with mail, re-lock mailbox, open inside door. Breathe. See? Why, I can feel my lungs contract just thinking about it!

Anyway, I hope with Spring on the way that my landlords will just open the hallway windows and let God take care of airing out the place. I don't know how much more air freshener I can ingest before heading for the ER.

3 comments:

jomoore said...

Do you have Febreeze over there? It removes odours, so would it remove air freshener odours? Hmm...

MaryB said...

Yes - love Febreeze. I, too, was wondering if Febreeze would cover up the odor of cheap air freshener. Worth a try. I have some right here . . .

Joy Des Jardins said...

Bring out the Fabreeze! What is that landlord thinking? He's lucky he hasn't had someone throw-up all over his elevator...