re: #411 oaktree

I’ve done a bit of that. ITCHY.

Only thing worse I ever did was when making vacuum cleaner attachments in a plastics plant. One piece was a head that included a horsehair brush - working that involved getting horsehair bits all over you eventually. Itch City there as well.

Sort of interesting how a few of my blue collar jobs have given me minor aversions to some products. Over familiarity breeding contempt. Not to mention enough exposure to nasty industrial products with insufficient protection to probably take years off my life and definitely having caused some hearing damage.

I’ve got a master’s in biochemistry. The smell of organic solvents sends me off the cliff to this day. I can smell a slightly open bottle of nail polish remover from across the house, I swear. Or a not perfectly capped gasoline can in the garage.