Call me Garfield and give me cheese.

[chess]

Firstly, I should be doing maths.

Secondly, does anybody have any good ideas about how to get the 'this got soaked and then didn't dry quickly enough' stink out of a heavy coat? Preferably something I can do *quickly*, because I rather need the coat back in its non-stinking state.

Thirdly, I *know* I did half of this maths work for the supervision that's in less than half an hour, and that I did it on paper so I could actually hadn it in, but my room is such a *mess* that I can't find it. Plus my maths notes were drowning in a pool of water due to me drying clothes in here with the windows closed (*duh*). And I didn't have any work for my CS supervision because my Psion and the PWF were conspiring against me.

All in all, I think I'd have benifited from just going back to bed after doing my washing this morning. Although then I'd have got ill from the detergent fumes again.

Oh, did I mention that my period is due and hence I'm going to be unbearable for, ooh, about a week? Didn't think so. Consider yourselves warned anyway. At least for once I'm not convinced everything is my fault; it's just the natural consequence of what I've prioritised, and I wouldn't have done (many) things differently. It's just a shame I don't have the tuit supply (because technically I do have the time, if I don't spend it writing whiny LJ entries and doing assorted similar junk) to make *everything* happen at least close to right.

Comments

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Drycleaning would work but it's not exactly cheap and it's certainly not fast. Hmm. Is it actually properly dry yet? If so, do you have anything equally but more acceptably smelly that you could put on it to mask the smell? (In an emergency I'd probably attack it with aerosol deodorant. But that's possibly just me.)

[chess]

You see, if I *had* aerosol deoderant, I would have indeed sprayed the *inside* of the coat liberally with it (I suspect it would leave nasty marks on the outside) and hoped for the best. I was wondering if there was something like Febreze (sp?) except for clothing; it smells exactly like damp furniture.

[jarel.livejournal.com]

Use Febreze? :)

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I thought Febreze worked on clothes...

I'm usually more likely to have deodorant to hand than Febreze, I think.

[chess]

I don't have anything remotely useful to hand and was planning to buy something in the morning, though.

[phamster.livejournal.com]

Assuming you've the time, which you have'nt. I believe the best way to retrieve that smell would be to soak the item again. (i.e. wash it) and then dry it in the proper length of time.

[chess]

Washing it was the option I was thinking of when I said 'quickly', yes.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

*looks at usericons*

Whoah, I'm seeing double there.

[chess]

Heh. I'm sure we've had this discussion before...

[phamster.livejournal.com]

Well... I've definately had the discussion with one of you.

[marble.livejournal.com]

Febreze is wonderful stuff. I have used it on my coat and it works well. (I've used it on my jumper too, when I had been somewhere smokey, and wasn't near a washing machine for a while. Yes, I carry around a bottle of febreze for such situations.)

[sath.livejournal.com]

Stay away? now you choose to warn me?
And oh look, I've got my period too now, so we'll be such a lovely tempered pair on saturday.

[chess]

Heh. How traditional of us. (Have we *ever* arranged to do something at a time where neither of us has our period?)

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

Keeping up with everything is a secret technique, known only to a shady conspiracy of Fellows. It's speculated that some of the Vets might have time to learn it; their insane workloads are obviously an attempt by the shady conspiracy to keep this from happening, and letting the secret out.

The army surplus shop near Christ's might have some wool coats in your size; these don't smell too bad when wet. This is obviously not a solution to your current stinky-coat problem, but might avoid it in future. Don't worry about it too much - lots of other people are in the same situation.

::makes a note to develop a non-nasty defence against the Flailing Girl Attack within the next couple of days::

[chess]

Wool? That'd be the stuff I'm allergic to, then. My coat only seems to smell around the seams of the sleeves, so it's not as bad as I thought (I guess it's only where the internal lining got wet).

My fluffy black hat remains soaked, even though I took a hairdryer to it last night.

And noooo, not a *defence* against the Flailing Girl Attack! How will I survive?

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

Yick, wool allergy. Poor girl.

Note I said a non-nasty defence. Unimaginable torment notwithstanding, I'd prefer to avoid being nasty to you. I'd also prefer to avoid falling victim to a flailing girl. There are, as I see it, only two solutions to this pair of desires. Well, three, but I don't think I can get enough salt on short notice.

[chess]

Yes, but if you have a defence against the Flailing Girl Attack, I cease to have a defence against the promised unimaginable torment, y'see... also your defence might be learnt by people who aren't so bothered about avoiding being nasty to me.

That last sentence really didn't work, did it?

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

Not really, and it could do with some help on the logic. Nasty defences against the Flailing Girl Attack abound. Besides which, I'm sure unimaginable torment isn't that bad.

[darnn.livejournal.com]

Well, see, you only think that, because you... can't... imagine it.