“By the time I was ten or eleven, everyone had moved on from sticker collecting—everyone, that is, except for me…I particularly loved the fruits…
God, I loved scratch and sniff bananas. They didn‘t smell like bananas; they smelled like the Platonic Ideal of bananas. If real bananas were a note played on a home piano, scratch and sniff bananas were that same note played on a church‘s pipe organ.”
dabbe I remember these! 🤩🤣🤩 1d
ncsufoxes I can recall how each of these smelled by looking at them. It‘s amazing that many years later how vividly I can remember what each sticker smelled like. 1d
CSeydel Oh man I remember those! Like @ncsufoxes said - I can smell this photo! 1d
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CSeydel My favorite isn‘t there, though - the root beer mug 🍺 1d
monalyisha @Cseydel Yes! That‘s the one I most vividly remember, too. 🤎 Also…I need to share this ridiculous fact. When I was a tween, there was a plaza down the street from my house that I was allowed to walk to. It had a discount clothing store called Dots. One day, I bought a pair of *supremely* inappropriate underwear for an 11-year-old, a fact which went unclocked by me. I just thought they were cool: neon blue with a scratch & sniff strawberry. 🍓🙈 1d
Sparklemn I was partial to grape. 🍇 (edited) 1d
CSeydel @monalyisha 🤣🤣 23h
Bookwormjillk I can smell those through the screen. 19h
Bookwormjillk @monalyisha 😂😂😂😂😂 19h
Meshell1313 They say you can‘t smell a picture but you totally can! 🙌🤣 16h
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