So I am taking a break from my Professional Report work day to fill you readers in on something I haven't thought about in a long time.

Yes, some boys smell even when they are adults.

Rewind your mind: Do you remember (I'm addressing my female readership right now) when in 2nd or 3rd grade you were forced to partner up in class with someone new, usually a boy, and you'd be sitting there, mulling over a drawing or a reader, and you'd smell something rank? You'd be thinking, "What smells? Man. It must be Doug." Then you'd make the association: "Doug is a smelly boy."

Well, I thought that kind of association-making ended at age 18. I thought boys turned into men and stopped smelling like that to a large extent. When I talk about being smelly, I'm not talking about just sweat. I refer to the waft of pungent, warm odor that emanates from a person when they move or shift around. I won't get into what the smell is like, it's simply noisome beyond everyday decriptives.

All this thinking is the result of an experience I had a couple weeks ago in class when I was partnered up with someone to do an activity. A pleasant and intelligent person, yet, alarmingly smelly. At first I thought it was me that smelled...but that is quite impossible seeing that I don't smell like anything at all. Really...my week old gym clothes smell more like Tide than sweat and this is even when they've been sitting at the bottom of my hamper for days on end. So back to my smelly dilemma. I soon realized that this partner-based activity would have continue another 15 minutes and, hence, the smell would, too. So I decided to endure it, without protest, but made a mental bookmark to try and avoid being partners with this odor-abundant person again.

Then, later, after class, I wondered if the smelly boy thinks that everyone else smells. I bet he thought I was the smelly one!

Oh, is he wrong. So wrong.