So I am walking down the hallway of the university I attend (Deakin University, Melbourne I would shout some sort of local sports team cheer, but I don't think Deakin has one...) as I am making my way to the computer lab. I enter the lab and immediately stop, lingering in the doorway. Its here too, just like the in all the other labs...that smell of hot sick on a midsummer day. Like an epidemic the smell travels from room to room blending with the already lingering smell of 30 students cramped inside a room filled with overheated hard-drives. I speak of course of the smell of RICE CRACKERS.
I hate them. My mom always said "hate is a strong word son" but man alive could I think of a few stronger words then hate to describe the smell of an open box of rice crackers. I don't know if it is possible to actually describe the smell, I believe you have to experience it for your self (god have mercy). The worst is when you come to a computer lab and there is no smell. You think you are safe, you think you have found a safe zone. But if you stay there for too long (I would give you about 30 minutes) someone will come along, oblivious to the well being of his or her fellow man and open a box of friggin rice crackers. Slowly but surely the smell will work its way up the nasal cavity alerting you to what has just transpired.
What can you do you ask? I am not sure there is anything we can do. Those who eat rice crackers must somehow be immune to the smell and actually like the dry cardboard taste. I don't believe such a creature can be reasoned with...all we can do is raise awareness and save as many as we can before they find themselves standing in the supermarket thinking "Hmm, these rice crackers look good." That is how it starts, that is how it ends.
By now most of you three reading this are asking and yes, quite possibly shouting WHO ARE YOU AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?!
Short answer is you shouldn't, but hey...I don’t care. My name is Alexander Kalma. I am a Norwegian student living in Melbourne, Australia with an American soul (I have been told). Love it or hate it, I am now blogging and for those of you who know me...well, you see what this blog is named.
So there you have it. Stay away from rice crackers and if you, my dear reader is a rice loving cracker muncher, don't be hate'n. We don't blame you, it's not your fault.
Alexander out.
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Haha! Du har utvilsomt talent både for humor og skriving. :)
I hate the smell of rice cakes too when other people are eating them, but when you are the one eating the rice cakes you can't smell it for some reason.
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