Monday, February 19, 2007

Smelly Feet


So last night I was sitting on the couch watching CSI (yes…one of my many TV addictions, I'm working on it though).
Anyway, I'm watching with Amy and she starts to smell something really bad. Now, usually I'm quick to admit it if it's me. But I was pretty sure I didn't do it.
Amy has like this super sniffer, so she can smell anything from anywhere and if she can't figure out what the smell is or where it's coming from, it drives her nuts. So she smells this smell and starts walking around the room sniffing everything. She's convinced that somehow I did something to make the stench. So as she's walking around sniffing the couch, the kitchen, the trash, the dishwasher….she leans over and smells my feet, which were propped up on the sofa right next to where she was sitting.
At that point, her gag reflex kicks in, and she plugs her nose and makes a really funny face and points at my feet.
Now, I've never really had smelly feet. I wash my feet. I always wear clean socks. My shoes don't smell bad. Yet she was convinced my feet were the source of the smell that was now making it's way to my nostrils, so I knew she wasn't kidding around. I'm not really that flexible, so as hard as I tried I wasn't really able to get my foot anywhere near my face to smell myself, so I had to take her word for it. So I jumped in the shower and started washing my feet and that's when I noticed it. I had this huge blister on my foot from my toe rubbing against the side of my shoe while I was running. This blister, just so happened to have popped, and I'm sure the stuff that oozes out of those things can't smell that great. So yes…the source of the stench was my foot, which is clean now, thanks to my wife's great sense of smell. (I still had to sleep with socks on though…:)

I thought I'd share something kinda funny, and I guess kinda gross, and if you end up reading this and would like to read bits and pieces of my life (as real as it is) some thoughts on the scriptures, my struggles with prayer and how I strain to understand God, post a comment and let me know. (just click the comment button below).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yummy.
Great story, you should try and fit that in a teaching piece somewhere!

Brad said...

ha. Thanks TM!
I'll have to work that in somewhere.

Anonymous said...

And here I thought maybe you had finally come out with your dads stinky feet!
BH