It stinks outside

I don't know if it's the heat or not but the smell seems to be getting worse. There's the smog. There's the moat and there's the garbage being thrown into the streets from all the vendors. They throw their dirty water and whatnot right into the street near a drain but it rarely goes down. It sits there in the street, layer upon layer. There are decades upon decades of filth in the streets and in the gutters. This is the way it's been done forever so there's no change in sight.

 

The smell gets a little more disgusting each and every day. For a while I thought the city just needs a good rain but we've had rain and nothing changed. Still stinks to high heaven.

I've been here a couple of months now and can't really say I've come across the stink of cigarette smoke which I think is odd because I see signs of people smoking and I see people smoking, so what gives? Today I was in the vicinity of two Caucasians smoking and it really stunk up a storm. One of the smokers held the cigaretter in her hand in such a manner as to have it on display,

 "look everybody, I'm smoking".

This reminded me of when my dad bought his second wife a four carot diamond ring. She could not pass you the salt at the dinner table without showing off that ring. She was a miserable human being and she drank herself to death. Alcoholic. She did not drink because she was full of love, that's for damn sure.

I deduced from this it is the cigarettes that smell so foul. Americans smoke the American cigarettes with all those filthy toxic disgusting chemicals and the locals smoke the local cigarettes which are not as offensive smelling probably becuase they are just tobacco. I think? I guess?


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