Girls, scented candles are dangerous. Especially to a chemically sensitive person like me.
I woke up from a couch nap to find that for the past few hours deadly chemical fumes from a candle on my mantle were collecting in the room. They started at the ceiling and filled the room down the way smoke would. When I woke and sat up I took a few breaths, tasted laundry detergent and suddenly went into respiratory distress. I went to another room and my heart rate was about 120 bpm while I breathed some clean air and recovered from the clandestine gas attack.
To people who aren't bothered by the candles and can't seem to smell the stuff that resembles a burning tire and diesel fuel (ugh! it literally squeezes my bronchial tubes squeeze shut) I say,
Believe me people, it's like you're colorblind and I can see colors that you can't. I'm smelling and reacting to the mysterious chemical ingredients of a scented candle, so in effect I can serve as a coal mine canary and warn you that you're breathing bad stuff even if you're not aware of it.
Chemically sensitive people.
We're out here.
And we're trying to warn you for your own good.
Even if you were born with charcoal filters in your nose it's still better if you don't breathe that stuff. If you could perceive as I do you'd never ask why again.
Poster Comment:
And cheap perfume is a commie plot to undermine America and the institution of Motherhood.