Comment from Karen Cherry Threadgill

Excellent

I would say great toe-curling sex, Movie popcorn, and Ben and Jerry's coffee heath bar ice cream in that order. I haven't had number one in a while, but my memory is good. Karen

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reply by the author on 05-Dec-2023

I got a big kick out of that, Karen. Thanks for sharing it!

Comment from Lea Tonin1

Excellent

Lol...funny! Poor you with super smellers and super hearers all around! That's gotta be a lose lose situation lol! Very amusing! I hope you get lots of what you really desire l o l! A fine submission and a lot of fun to read! I see no issues with Grammar punctuation aesthetics or sentence structure It's a great and funny submission I wish you best to luck!

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reply by the author on 04-Dec-2023

Thanks, Lea. So glad it amused you.

What I really desire is for them to quit bugging me about things that most people would consider normal. Ah well, can't have everything. My wife and I have put up with each other for 50 years and counting now. I guess we've learned to adapt to each other. Gotta keep a good sense of humor about it.

reply by Lea Tonin1 on 04-Dec-2023

Comment from Lisasview

Excellent

Hi Jim,
Your last sentence made me smile and laugh out loud... Well, if one is a super taster than it just goes to reason that they are a super smeller...
The entire story was pretty funny....which makes for a very good morning read.
Lisa, still in Spain

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reply by the author on 04-Dec-2023

Thanks, Lisa. So glad it made you laugh. Enjoy the rest of your Spain trip.

Comment from JSD

Excellent

More excellent and amusing insights into the superpowers of your family. There's a superhero book here, surely? Some brilliant little twists of syntax. I particularly like the tyre marks on the wall!

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reply by the author on 04-Dec-2023

Thanks, John. Soon, I'll be putting out another chapter in my "superhero book" about my son this time. His superpowers are innocence and naivete.

Comment from lyenochka

Excellent

Lol! You're so funny and actually I think you're a saint! I have the same problem our youngest daughter who suffers from misophonia. She avoided eating with us when she lived with us.
It's interesting that you and your wife have a different smell reaction to certain foods. I know tuna can be smelly but sweet potato? I guess you don't like it.

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reply by the author on 04-Dec-2023

Thanks so much, Helen. My daughter ate with us, but not without constant reminders to us to stop smacking and please chew with our mouths closed. Those are things the parent usually tells the child.

Yeah, it's funny about sweet potatoes. It's one of the few foods I dislike, but my wife loves 'em. I also don't like pumpkin pie or cranberry sauce. You'd think I wouldn't like Thanksgiving dinner then, because these things figure so prominently in it. I also hate giblet gravy. Why would anyone want to spoil that delicious turkey gravy by putting cut up hearts and gizzards in it, like my father used to? Fortunately we serve enough different things at Thanksgiving that there are plenty of other dishes to choose--and no giblets in the gravy!

reply by lyenochka on 04-Dec-2023

You are creative! And yes, agree with you about pumpkin pie. My husband can't stand gravy. I had my son-in-law make the gravy this time.

Oh, and someone else who has hyperosmia like your wife, Joy Milne of Scotland can smell if someone has Parkinson's! Now that's a useful hyperactive nose!

Comment from Wendy G

Exceptional

Lol. What a fun and well- written piece, entertaining and humorous throughout. I enjoyed every minute of reading about your wife and daughter (and of course about you too!). I would love to be a fly on the wall at your place!!
Wendy

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reply by the author on 04-Dec-2023

Thanks so much, Wendy, for your wonderful review and the 6 stars too. If you were a fly on the wall, you'd hear a couple who've been married 50 years this December and who don't take themselves or each other too seriously. Lots of humor in our marriage.

reply by Wendy G on 04-Dec-2023

Wonderful to hear. Humour is essential. Love, forgiveness's and good humour keep a marriage strong. We?ll have 45 years next June.

Comment from Carol Clark2

Excellent

I can relate to your wife's super-smeller condition. I seem to be the only one in the house who knows that the garbage smells and needs to be taken out. Then again, sweet smells bother me just as much. Thanks for sharing. Blessings. Carol

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reply by the author on 04-Dec-2023

Do you wash out your garbage bin too? That's something I've never done!

reply by Carol Clark2 on 11-Dec-2023

Of course I do! I sprayed my kitchen bin with Lysol today because I could smell it in the next room. Nobody else seemed to notice! Lol. Glad someone understands!

Comment from Carol Hillebrenner

Excellent

You always find a way to make humor work even for a supersmeller or superhearer. Neither of them must have had covid. I can smell almost nothing and now have cicadas in my head boring me with their endless song.

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reply by the author on 04-Dec-2023

Oh, sucks to be you, Carol! Did you lose your sense of taste too? That would be a crushing blow on top of the rest!

reply by Carol Hillebrenner on 04-Dec-2023

Taste is sort of back, but a few things taste like mud.

reply by the author on 05-Dec-2023

Better mud than that other brown substance. At least it's coming back.

Comment from Rachelle Allen

Excellent

Dearest Jim ~

I'm pretty sure I'm married to your wife's identical twin brother. I can come home from a piano lesson where --I'm serious here-- HOURS before, I washed my hands in someone's bathroom sink with a scented soap, and my husband (the one, who, I'm sure you recall from my super-taster review, is also a super-taster) scrunches up his nose and says, "Ewww! Did you wash your hands with something perfumey?"

Now, in your daughter's case, that one is me. Ii always thought it was the musician in me. My ears are ubiquitous.

So, anytime you and your family are in Upstate NY, please give me a call. We will all fit together so beautifully!!!

Great article. The eighth grader that I have never grown out of being particularly loved this sentence: Not only does she dislike smelling butts, but she can't even stand smelling something as innocuous as tuna fish.

Very fun and enlightening read, Jim. Thank you for the entertainment!! xo

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reply by the author on 03-Dec-2023

So glad you enjoyed it Rachelle.

I think I may have told you once that my daughter is a clarinetist who got her masters in clarinet but couldn't find a decent orchestra to hire her, so she switched careers; however, I've always thought the real reason is that clarinets play in front of the trumpets and she couldn't stand hearing them blare in her ears all the time, even with those plexiglass screens to help block the sound!

reply by Rachelle Allen on 03-Dec-2023

Loved it!

Comment from Debbie D'Arcy

Excellent

This is hilarious, Jim! What a household and you, caught in the middle between mother and daughter! Your wonderful story is packed with gems of humour and is a delight to read. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in your house. Mind you, we've all got strange things going on behind closed doors. It's just that you're more honest than most. Beautifully expressed in flawless prose, as ever. Take care Debbie

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reply by the author on 03-Dec-2023

So glad you enjoyed it, Debbie. We've had a lot of laughs in our household, as none of us takes ourselves or each other too seriously. I think that's a key to 50 years of marriage which we will be celebrating in December.

reply by Debbie D'Arcy on 03-Dec-2023

Well I'll be expecting to read all about it.