Sniffers (Fun Poem 162)

Our nose is a precision tool for detecting smells around us. Chefs normally smell the food before tasting it. Wine experts smell a glass of wine before taking a sip. Each judge the aromas produced by different foods and grapes. However there are other sniffers of a more clandestine temperament that have fine-tuned their noses. There is the carpet sniffer who when they enter work sniff the carpets around them for any obnoxious smells. Recently I have come across a bin sniffer who sticks their head in a bin sniffing out the fragment odours that the majority of us will not detect. The bin sniffer makes you smile as any rubbish bin will eventually smell. These sniffers fine tune their sense of smell to be able to detect each component that might be producing the offending odour. So beware my friends the sniffers are all around us with their nose in the carpet or in a bin. 30 November 2014 (Author's Note: this piece was inspired by people I have met over the years.)