Who in their right mind would wear such a thing? Maybe I should take this and the other most ridiculous why-do-I-still-have-these clothes I can find in my place, and take a photo of myself wearing them all. These hidious things did decorate many a cubicle at the time. I don't even remember what it was or what it did, or if we even kept the same name for it after 6 months. It was from some training class for one of our products. MONEYHOUSE SCENTS SOFTWAREI got this ridiculous waste of fabric at a software company I worked for, about 10 years ago. We managed to get a drummer at the last minute (B.J., who was Sanesthesia's percussionist) and a singer named Jim. I hooked up with a great guitarist named Barry Munsterteiger, who somehow put up with my enormous musical ego at the time. Ah yes, my first real live band performance. I'll add this to the New-Age tapes I've been selling on eBay. Listen to this." He probably just threw it in with the rest of the family's tape collection and somehow I ended up with it. And no, my dad wouldn't have given it to me saying "Billy, you're a loser. MONEYHOUSE SCENTS FOR FREEI think my dad got this for free somewhere. Denis Waitley on The Psychology of Winning (cassette tape).Note the disclaimer at the end of the directions. It has a fruity smell to it, somewhere in between fruity candles and grape soda. I've always been conservative with it, so there's surprisingly still a lot left. It was the only one in the store, and I've never seen another can since. Picked this up at Spencer Gifts, probably in 1989. (Yet for the record, I am ethnically French-Canadian.) After my last time in Canada, I've developed a hatred for all things French anyway. It was certainly odd hearing the Canadian national anthem AFTER the American national anthem at a game. Which of course came at the request of my younger brother, who drank them. Another amusing thing about that Canada trip: being 18 but still a non-drinker (I was a complete teetotaler by entire life, up until around age 28) I was old enough to buy beer at Expos stadium. I know they were from this Canada trip and not any of the later ones, because they were mixed in with circa-1989 Batman cards and a long since dried and rotted rubber band. At some restaurant I saw these cards so I took some of them. Some time in the early or mid 90s I went to Canada with my family. Business cards from Canadian strip joints and other sex services, circa 1993.Some oddities I came across, just looking behind my couch.
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