Donations Drop Off Suck

[Sightings Reporter]

This happened to my husband, so I thought it would be a regular suck as he told me the story, but if it belongs in sightings, please accept my apologies in advance**

[background]My husband (henceforth "H") works at our church. Our parish has a resale shop that it sponsors a block down the road. [/background]

My husband was working with the youth group on Friday night and had a woman come to his office asking why there wasn't anyone at the Resale Shop. H told her that is closed at 3pm each day. (He doesn't have anything to do with Resale shop btw.) She told him that she had just talked with someone there and they told her she could drop off her donations that evening. It was 530 at this point and no one would have answered the phones because they close at 300.

She started asking him what she should do with the stuff she had and asked if she could just leave it at the his office and have him drop it off the next day. H just needed to get rid of her and told her to follow him to his car. She loaded (and I mean loaded) the truck of our midsize car with crap. Blankets, stuffed animals, coats, shoes and two boxes of odds and ends. Didn't say thank you and left.

H went back to the youth activity and 4 hours later got in our car to go home. It smelled of cig smoke. Smoke like "I smoke 3 packs a day in my home/car without any windows open and chose to wash only once a week. Oh and I smoke Reds". He came home an apologized to me as he knew I would be driving the car the next morning (before the Resale shop opened). Things were fine when I got in the car the next morning until about noon, then the car really started smelling like that 3 pack a day habit. (With the windows down)

I drove straight to the Resale Shop, apologized and unloaded them. I got home, told my husband never to be nice to people again, then had to change my clothes as I managed to transfer the smell on to me.

[lineswine]

The smell will dissipate if you put your outerwear over a warm radiator for an hour or so.
I, LadyLineswine, or LSjr. have never & will never smoke. It turns our collective stomachs.

[Summerfly413]

That's one of the worst smells ever.

For some reason at my store someone returned a phone. I was in electronics, so I got it when I came back from my break and started to repack it.

It smelled TERRIBLE and in some of the plastic bags were ASHES. Really?? I'd like to know who did the return and thought it was ok. I just tapped it up and shoved it in the back. Ick.

[Mnemjian]

Ewwwww, nast. Even when I did smoke I could never stand the smell of stale smoke embedded into clothing. Even books keep that smell if it's strong enough (like cigar smoke). When people who smoke a LOT inside their house, their stuff all starts to smell like that and I don't believe they notice it at all, either That sucks you had to put up with it in your own car!

[Dreamstalker]

I'm housesitting right now for someone who smokes a LOT (her previous computer died a nasty death due to smoke inhalation/yuck buildup, and I fear that the fancy more-powerful-than-she-needs rig she just purchased may not last too long either). Every time I enter the apartment I can smell cig smoke...she has ashtrays everywhere and doesn't know how to keep them clean.

Her furniture doesn't smell that I can tell, but mom says she can smell it slightly on my clothes.

[Andara Bledin]

I'm housesitting right now for someone who smokes a LOT (her previous computer died a nasty death due to smoke inhalation/yuck buildup, and I fear that the fancy more-powerful-than-she-needs rig she just purchased may not last too long either).

If she keeps it clean, it should last pretty long.

I used to live in a house of terrible smokers. My ex's computer monitor was actually stained yellow, and had a burn on it from his smoking. All of our electronics enjoyed long lives because we'd do regular maintenance. I suspect that any issues were as much from excess cat fur as excess smoke; that stuff builds up freakishly fast when you have a few cats prowling about.

^-.-^

[Dreamstalker]

That's the thing; she has no idea she has to. Even my mom (who is a self-professed computer dummy) knows enough to clean out the case fans every few weeks.