stench by chocolate

My friend J. e-mails from his new quadplex apartment:

Okay, if you move into a new apartment and discover you do not have trashbags

for your kitchen wastebasket, you should GO OUT AND BUY THEM IMMEDIATELY.  

You should not start putting trash in the wastebasket and assume you can take 

care of it later. However, if you do just start putting garbage in the 

wastebasket, this garbage should not include a to-go cup from when you got

hot chocolate at Starbucks.  And if you do feel like you have to throw away

in to-go cup in your bagless wastebasket, you should confirm that it is

empty first.  Or else, when you finally do get around to bagging the trash in

said wastebasket, you will discover how the lovely aroma of chocolate turns

very unlovely when it forms a solid dried sheet covering the bottom of your

wastebasket.



Lucky for me, my shower has sandblaster-like water pressure, so I was able to

clean up the cocoa mess relatively painlessly.  More painlessly, for example,

than what I experience when I actually step into the shower myself, as the

water pressure really is such that I'm sure it could be used to remove 

tattoos.